You are employed at a chemical company and have recently been transferred from a plant that manufactures synthetic dyes to a new facility that makes specialty additives for the polymer resin industry. you have been asked to estimate the cost of manufacturing at this new facility. would you
a. use equation 8.2 to estimate comd?
b. use data from the old plant where you worked, because you are very familiar with all the aspects of manufacturing for that process?
c. dig up information on the new process and use these figures?

(8.2) com_d=0.180fci +2.73c_ol +1.23(c_ut+c_wt+c_rm)