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(d) Which rule should be used, in your opinion? Why?
(e) The head mechanic at the production facility wants to perform maintenance
on the bottleneck workstation used to process the jobs above. The
mechanic insists the maintenance needs to be performed before day 45,
and has indicated that the maintenance will take 3 days to complete and
will take the workstation offline. Considering it is still day 13, when is
the best time to perform the maintenance? (Hint: Treat the maintenance
as though it is a new job.)

1.
A company has five jobs awaiting processing at a bottleneck work-
station in a production facility. The day the job was received, its processing
time and due date are given in the following table. It is now the beginning of
day 13.
Day Job
Job was Received
ITTI
Job Processing Job Due
Time (days)
Day
1
45
B
8
28
7
2
23
10
9.
35
12
1
21
Calculate the average throughput time and, for each job, the number of days
overdue using the following priority sequencing rules:

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