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Chapter 7, Problem 11P
Consider a project to produce custom door moldings for GMC Acadia crossover vehicles, described in Table 7.4.
- If you start the project immediately, when will it be finished?
- You are interested iii completing your project as soon as possible. You have only one option. Suppose you could assign Employee A, currently assigned to activity G, to help Employee B, currently assigned to activity F. Each week that Employee A helps Employee B will result in activity G increasing its time by 1 week and activity F reducing its time by 1 week. How many weeks should Employee A work on activity F?
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You can accomplish any one of the following at an additional cost of $1500. If you will save $1000 for each day that the earliest completion time is reduced, which of the following actions should be taken, if any?
1. Reduce job 5 by two days. True or false
2. Reduce job 3 by two days. True or false
3. Reduce job 7 by two days. True or false
b) Assuming that each task is started as soon as possible, construct the corresponding resource loading diagram for the project. c) How would you rearrange the timing of project activities to reduce the fluctuation in resource demand? Assume that the overall project duration cannot be extended. Remember that the specified precedence relationships must be maintained. d) If there are only 20 workers available for the project, how would you assign workers to tasks to ensure that the project can be completed without violating the resource limit? In this case, the project duration may be extended if necessary (but without violating precedence relationships). e) Given the results from (c) and (d) above, what recommendations would you make to senior management regarding the staffing of this project, and why?
A project has 92 activities, but only 13 of them are analyzed here.
Activity P, 9 days, IP = not given
Activity W, 10 days, IP = not given
Activity S, 6 days, IP = not given
Activity A, 25 days, IP = P, W
Activity F, 24 days, IP W, S
Activity N, 21 days, IP S
Activity E, 28 days, IP = A
Activity M, 13 days, IP A, F
Activity B, 40 days, IP N
Activity H, 10 days, IP = E, M
Activity K, 14 days, IP = E, M, B
Activity D, 11 days, IP = B
Activity R, 10 days, IP = B
It has been calculated that LS(K) = 118, LS(D) = 109, LS(H) = 124, LS(R) = 116.
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Chapter 7 Solutions
MyLab Operations Management with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains
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