Operations Management
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Author: HEIZER, Jay, RENDER, Barry, Munson, Chuck
Publisher: Pearson,
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Chapter D, Problem 20P
a)
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To determine: The number of doctors required to be on duty.
Introduction: The mathematical study which analyses the causes of delay in the waiting line is known as queuing theory. The theory examines all components in the waiting line such as arrival process, service process, and number of servers, system and customers.
b)
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To determine: The condition of the hospital when only one doctor is available between 9A.M and 3P.M.
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QUESTION 5
A post office has a counter for customers' drive-through to get the services. The design of the
drive-through lane allows for unlimited queue length. The arrival and service rate are Poisson
distributed with A= 20 customers per hour arriving on average and u=25 customers per hour can
be served on average.
a) Compute the average number of arrivals.
b) Compute the average time a customer waits.
c) Compute the average number of arrivals in the system.
d) Compute the average time a customer is in the system.
e) Compute the probability that less than or equal to 3 customers are in the system.
f) If the single counter for the customer drive-through has been replaced with the automatic
operation, service rates are constant with A= 20 and u =25. Compute (a), (b), (c) and (d).
Q.11 An example of a leading performance measure is:
a.Number of new customers
b. Average response time for service call
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