Question: General Foundry's project crashing data are shown in Crash this project by hand to 10 weeks. What are the final times for each activity after crashing, and what is the total cost associated with reducing the duration of this project from 15 to 10 weeks?
30 Bowman Builders manufactures steel storage sheds for commercial use. Joe Bowman, president of Bowman Builders, is contemplating producing sheds for home use. The activities necessary to build an experimental model and related data are given in the table on the next page. The project completion time using standard times is 14 weeks. Set up and solve an LP model using Excel to crash this project to 10 weeks. How much does it cost to reduce the duration of this project from 14 to 10 weeks?
