Youngstown Glass Company manufactures three types of safety plate glass: large, medium, and small. All three products have high demand. Thus, Youngstown Glass is able to sell all the safety glass that it can make. The production process includes an autoclave operation, which is a pressurized heat treatment. The autoclave is a production bottleneck. Total fixed costs are $201,000 for the company as a whole. In addition, the following information is available about the three products:. Large MediumSmall
Unit selling price
Unit variable cost
Unit contribution margin
Autoclave hours per unit
Total process hours per unit
Budgeted units of production
$184
130
$54
3
5
3000
$160
120
$40
2
4
3000
$100
76
$24
1
2
3000
a. Determine the contribution margin by glass type and the total
company income from operations for the budgeted units of production.
b. Prepare an analysis showing which product is tile most profitable per
bottleneck hour.