CAPACITY UTILIZATION ANALYSIS OF HPLC INSTRUMENTS FROM THE ASPECT OF HUNGARIAN FOR- AND NON-PROFIT SECTOR
CAPACITY UTILIZATION ANALYSIS OF HPLC INSTRUMENTS FROM THE ASPECT OF HUNGARIAN FOR- AND NON-PROFIT SECTOR

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the development of a method in order to measure and evaluate the capacity utilization of forty laboratory instruments in the analytical field of chromatography in the two major sectors, namely non-profit and for-profit. The procurement of the laboratory instruments was either from own institution’s budget or European Union projects funded. The primary objective of this survey is to identify appropriate laboratory capacity utilization and productivity measures and analyze the potential cost benefit. The measurements were carried out by idle-time indicators for a12-months/ a year period of time to determine the efficient utilization of the laboratory devices. The analyzed data were gathered from the Hungarian laboratory market as an own research. The significant difference was found between the classifications and periods of idle times for an HPLC instrument for non-profit and profit-oriented institutes and thus capacity utilization is slightly different in these two cases. Based on the results, at last it was stated that a number of effect of EU resources on R&D development and their significance is still unsolved and so a more complex survey has to be carried out in future in the major sectors of the laboratory B2B market. In this work only the most important aspects based on the Research and Development activities were examined for sustainable economic development. Naturally, the conceptual scope and extent of this study do not permit all the possible issues to be examined from every aspect, thus it will be endeavored to point out merely the most relevant considerations.

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