1. Examine your own experiences either working in a company or a customer of a company. In 300-500 words, describe an instance where "Theory of Constraints" (TOC) was successfully applied to improve a process, or where you saw the potential for TOC to improve the process.
2. When attempting to crash a project to reduce its overall duration, the only logical candidate tasks for crashing are those on the critical path. Why is this
3. In a waiting line situation, arrivals occur at a rate of 2 per minute, and the service times average 24 seconds. Assume the Poisson and exponential distributions. a. What is ?? What is ?? b. Find average number of units in the system. c. Find average time in the waiting line. d. Find probability that there is one person waiting. e. Find probability an arrival will have to wait.