Determine the appropriate length of a rail dock (in feet) given the following information. The dock needs to support a demand of 720,000 pounds/day with 3 railcar changes per day. The average railcar loaded is 46 feet long and holds on average 70,000 pounds.
A. What is the appropriate length of the rail dock (in feet)?
B. If the facility could increase the railcar changes to 4 per day, what would the appropriate length of the rail dock?
Determine the appropriate number of shipping dock doors for a truck dock given the following information. Trucks deliver 580,000 cubic feet of product each day from this facility and the average truck is loaded with 3,000 cubic feet of product. It takes 3 hours on average to load a truck and the facility works 20 hours each day.
C. What is the appropriate number of shipping dock doors needed for this operation?
D. If the facility was able to increase the average amount of freight loaded on a truck to 3,200 cubic feet, how many dock doors would be needed?