Factory capacity tool
Can Your Factory Meet Your Production Targets?
Add the products you need each day or week. See the required batches, ingredients, shared workstation load and the first capacity shortfall in your plan.
Plan several products together to see shared ingredients and shared workstation demand.
Start a production plan →What Do You Need to Produce?
Add the products your business needs each day or week, then set the Factory Worker skill you want to plan with.
Start a production plan
Add a production target and your capacity inputs to see the first bottleneck.
Production Plan
Each lane plans whole recipe batches. Surplus stays visible because ingredient demand follows planned batches, not the exact target.
Add a production target and your capacity inputs to see the first bottleneck.
Can Your Workstations Handle It?
Planned batches are known from recipe data. Enter how many batches one workstation completes in a day in your save to estimate capacity.
Not sure? Leave this blank. The planner can still calculate recipes, batches and ingredients.
Add a production target and your capacity inputs to see the first bottleneck.
Do You Have Enough Factory Workers?
Factory Workers must be available at the same time as the active production slots.
What Stops This Plan First?
Add a product target to start the plan.
Add a production target and your capacity inputs to see the first bottleneck.
What Could Change the Result?
Add a production target and your capacity inputs to see the first bottleneck.
Ingredients Needed
Shared ingredients are merged from whole planned batches across every product.
Ingredients Needed
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units/day
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3-day buffer
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| Ingredient | Required / day | 3 stock target | Current inventory | Need to buy | Used by |
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Estimated ingredient value: Not entered / day
This excludes payroll, rent, storage and logistics.
Finished Goods Flow
Add a production target and your capacity inputs to see the first bottleneck.
What Changes at a Different Skill?
One skill change while product targets stay fixed. Training cost and wage changes are not included here.
| Product | Current batches | Test batches | Change |
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Not entered
Before You Run This Plan
These setup checks cannot be read from your save. Tick what you have confirmed.
Factory not producing? Diagnose the current setup →Can This Plan Work?
Add a production target and your capacity inputs to see the first bottleneck.
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Capacity covered
Add available Factory Workers
Check setup
Continue This Production Plan
Carry the selected output, production target and Factory Worker skill into the full business simulation.
Common Factory Planning Problems
How Factory Capacity Planning Works in Big Ambitions
Several products, one factory plan. Add every product your business needs and the planner combines the required batches, ingredients and workstation load into one factory-wide plan.
Whole batches stay visible. Recipes run in complete skill-adjusted batches, so the planner shows batches, planned output and surplus instead of hiding rounding behind a single number.
Capacity waits for your input. Reliable cycle times are not available, so workstation capacity appears only after you enter how many batches one station completes per day in your save.
The first bottleneck, in order. Targets, recipes, ingredients, workstation capacity and worker coverage are checked in order so you see the first thing that actually stops the plan.