Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 2P
A manager wants to assign tasks to workstations as efficiently as possible and achieve an hourly output of
a. In order of most following tasks Tiebreaker: greatest positional weight.
b. In order of greatest positional weight Tiebreaker: most following tasks.
c. What is the efficiency?
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