Loose Leaf for Operations Management (The Mcgraw-hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences)

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ISBN: 9781260152203

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 33 1 2 units. Assume the shop works a 60-minute hour. Assign the tasks shown in the accompanying precedence diagram (times are in minutes) to workstations using the following rules:

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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Loose Leaf for Operations Management (The Mcgraw-hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences)

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