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For a particular process, originally each 200 units of product manufactured yielded 180 conforming units, 12 units that must be scrapped, and the remaining units that must be reprocessed. Each scrapped unit results in a $30 loss and each reprocessed unit requires an extra 0.55 hours of processing time. The resource time of producing the original 200 units is 30 hours. As a result of a quality improvement program that was recently introduced, for each 200 units manufactured, the process now yields 195 conforming units, 3 unit to be scrapped, and the remaining units that must be reprocessed. Calculate the percent increase in the productivity because of the new process.