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Development of a new deluxe version of a particular software product is being considered by Ravi Behara's software house. The indirect cost is $500 per week.
An electrical contractor's records during the last five weeks indicate the number of job requests:
A dry cleaner uses exponential smoothing to forecast equipment usage at its main plant.
A manager checked production records and found that a worker produced 170 units while working 50 hours.
A manager must make a decision on shipping. There are two shippers, A and B. Both offer a two-day rate:
The following represents a project that should be scheduled using CPM:
The table below gives the activity duration and precedence relationships for a small project consisting of six activities.
They are only concerned with the last hour of the day from 4:00 to 5:00 P.M. It takes 5 minutes per customer to be processed by the tellers.
Several complications arose during the course of trying to meet the deadline of April 21 for the Adams-Jackson wedding rehearsal.
Few privately owned companies make a large investment in providing supervisory or management training to their new or existing leaders.
A manager wants to determine the number of containers to use for incoming parts for a kanban system to be installed next month
Determine the number of cycles per day and a production quantity per cycle for this set of products that achieves fairly level production:
List and compare the probable functional, situational, psychological, social, and knowledge needs
In 2015, Major Company initiated a full-scale, quality improvement program. At the end of the year, Jack Aldredge, the president, noted with some satisfaction
The company philosophy is to safeguard personal employee information in its possession to ensure the confidentiality of the information.
A priority waiting system assigns arriving customers to one of four classes. Arrival rates (Poisson) of the classes are shown in the following table:
Compute the takt time for a system where the total time per shift is 560 minutes, there is one shift, and workers are given two 13-minute breaks
A large law firm uses an average of 41 boxes of copier paper a day. The firm operates 256 days a year.
A production process consists of a three-step operation. The scrap rate is 19 percent for the first step and 10 percent for the other two steps.
Consider a firm that delivers video rentals to its customers. The spatial distribution of customers is as follows: 10 videos are delivered to location
You have probably had a lot of experience working in collaborative teams in previous courses or on the job
Arizona Plumbing, which makes, among other products, a full line of bathtubs must decide which of its factories should supply which of its warehouses.
A machine cell uses 211 pounds of a certain material each day. Material is transported in vats that hold 20 pounds each.
A company manufactures hair dryers. It buys some of the components, but it makes the heating element, which it can produce at the rate of 827 per day.
Rockness Recycling refurbishes rundown business students. The process uses a moving belt, which carries each student through the five steps of the process