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- Understand the concept of process selection, forecasting, capacity planning, production forecast methods and schedule operations.
- Exercise critical thinking to analyze and synthesize information for scheduling operations and ERP.
- Develop numerical skills needed to analyze complex data of process design, quality management, capacity & scheduling planning to navigate in challenging situations.
- Create the capacity to write coherent project about actual operation management case studies.
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Assignment Question(s):(Marks 5)
Sequence the jobs shown below by using a Gantt chart. Assume that the move time between machines is one hour. Sequence the jobs in priority order 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Job Work Center/Machine HoursDue Date (days) |
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1 |
A/3, B/2, C/2 |
3 |
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2 |
C/2, A/4 |
2 |
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3 |
B/6, A/1, C/3 |
4 |
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4 |
C/4, A/1, B/2 |
3 |
- Using finite capacity scheduling, draw a Gantt chart for the schedule (Marks 0.5)
- What is the makespan? (Marks 0.5)
- How much machine idle time is there? (Marks 0.5)
- How much idle time (waiting time) is there for each job? (Marks 0.5)
- When is each job delivered? (Marks 0.5)
- Which department is the bottleneck? (Marks 0.5)
- Calculate the machine utilization? (Marks 0.5)
Question 2:
A public accounting firm requires the following activities
for an audit:
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Activity |
Immediate Predecessor |
Activity time |
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A |
– |
3 |
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B |
A |
2 |
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C |
– |
5 |
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D |
B, C |
2 |
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E |
A |
4 |
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F |
B, C |
6 |
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G |
E, D |
5 |
- Draw a network for this project? (Marks 0.5)
- Make a forward pass and a backward pass to determine ES, LS, EF, and LF? (Marks 0.5)
- What are the critical path? (Marks 0.5)
