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At the beginning of Year 3, a manufacturing plant with six production lines is available in your home area. No production facilities are currently available in the other areas. However, a plant may be built in any other area using the area's working capital and additional funding, if required, from the parent company. There are no restrictions on foreign investment of firms producing low-cost durable products in N/P/S. On each quarterly decision form, all available production lines in each plant and for each shift must either be scheduled for production, idled or deactivated. See Chapter 7 of the Player's Manual for certain restrictions on production scheduling and temporary layoffs. Schedule Production Lines and Hours: Production lines to be scheduled for first-shift operation should be entered on the decision form for the area in which they are located. Enter the number of production lines that are to be producing (not more than the maximum available) and the number of hours that are to be scheduled per week (from 40 to 48). Make sure your entry is for the area or areas in which you have a plant. The decision-entry program will not accept an entry for an area where no production lines are available. IMPORTANT NOTE: If new lines are desired, an entry must be made under New Lines one quarter before production may be scheduled. Construction and preparation of new lines requires one quarter before the lines become available for production. In Year 3, Quarter 1, space is available to add as many as two new lines in the existing home area plant. If a new addition or a new plant is under construction, the construction of new production lines may be undertaken as early as one quarter before completion of the new plant capacity. In this way, production lines may be made available for production as soon as the new addition or new plant is completed. Limits:
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