Avoid plagiarism, matching ratio should not exceed 10%
Requirement:
Learning outcome:
- 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.
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 |
|
2 |
C/2, A/4 |
2 |
|
3 |
B/6, A/1, C/3 |
4 |
|
4 |
C/4, A/1, B/2 |
3 |
- A) Using finite capacity scheduling, draw a Gantt chart for the schedule (Marks 0.5)
- B) What is the make span? (Marks 0.5)
- C) How much machine idle time is there? (Marks 0.5)
- D) How much idle time (waiting time) is there for each job? (Marks 0.5)
- E) When is each job delivered? (Marks 0.5)
- F) Which department is the bottleneck? (Marks 0.5)
- G) 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 |
|
A |
– |
3 |
|
B |
A |
2 |
|
C |
– |
5 |
|
D |
B, C |
2 |
|
E |
A |
4 |
|
F |
B, C |
6 |
|
G |
E, D |
5 |
- A) Draw a network for this project? (Marks 0.5)
- B) Make a forward pass and a backward pass to determine ES, LS, EF, and LF? (Marks 0.5)
- C) What are the critical path? (Marks 0.5)
Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
- The Assignment must be submitted on (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
- Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
- Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
- Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
- Late submission will NOT be accepted.
- Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
- All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Answer:
