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A company is setting up an assembly line to produce 90 units per hour. The table below identifies the work elements, times, and immediate predecessors. Work Element Time (Sec.) Immediate Predecessor(s) A 25 - B 18 A C 20 A D 5 B, C E 12 C F 8 E G 16 D, F H 12 G Use one of the heuristic decision rules described in Table below to balance the assembly line so that it will produce 90 units per hour. Clearly state the decision rule you use and complete the below table using the selected rule. Decision Rule Logic Longest work element Picking the candidate with the longest time to complete is an effort to fit in the most difficult elements first, leaving the ones with short times to “fill out” the station. Shortest work element This rule is the opposite of the longest work element rule because it gives preference in workstation assignments to those work elements that are quicker. It can be tried…

Systems Inc. is scheduled to launch its new software application in the next two weeks. Tim would like to hire a marketing research company to study the market situation prior to the launch. The market research company needs four weeks to complete the research project and deliver comprehensive results. Therefore, Tim decides against hiring the research company and goes ahead with the scheduled launch without further research.   What factor is the determinant of the need for marketing research in Tim' situation?   a. Time constraints b. Benefits vs costs c. Availability of data d. Nature of the decision

number 1 Dayagsky, pls answer a-c.

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From this selected reference: Bixby, A., B. Downs, and M. Self: “A Scheduling andCapable-to-Promise Application for Swift & Company,” Interfaces, 36(1): 69–86, January–February 2006.https://www.academia.edu/34766673/A_Scheduling_and_Capable-toPromise_Application_for_Swift_and_Company)   Summarize the background that led to undertaking this study.

In addition to the written materials discussed in the previous question, what else should the supervisor do to orient new letter carriers? Carol Burgess is a letter carrier and a part-time trainer of letter carriers for the U.S. Postal Service in a major city on the west coast. She trains all new letter carriers in her service area, which encompasses the northern half of her state. Over the past five years she has trained 318 new letter carriers. Typically, the training is offered prior to the new letter carrier’s entry onto the job, although sometimes it occurs shortly thereafter. The training program typically encompasses both the orientation of new employees to the U.S. Postal Service and the development of specific skills needed by the new letter carrier. The latter involves practice in casing mail (i.e., sorting) to appropriate locations of a case in preparation for delivery, reading maps, determining appropriate sequencing of delivery, and customer relations. The total training…

A professor has been contacted by four not-for-profit agencies that are willing to work with student consulting teams. The agencies need help with such things as budgeting, information systems, coordinating volunteers, and forecasting. Although each of the four student teams could work with any of the agencies, the professor feels that there is a difference in the amount of time it would take each group to solve each problem. The professor's estimate of the time, in days, is given in the table below. Projects Team Budgeting Information Volunteers Forecasting A 31 36 16 26 B 37 41 19 36 C 40 43 26 37 D 44 46 31 Use the computer solution to see which team works with which project. ASSIGNMENT Problem OBJECTIVE: MINIMIZATION Summary of Unit Cost or Revenue Data Task Agent 1 2 3 4 1 31 36 16 26 2 37 41 19 36 3 40 43 26 37 4 44 46 31 41 Optimal Assignments Cost/Revenue 41 Assign Agent 3 To Task 1 40 Assign Agent 4 To Task 2 46 Assign Agent 2 To Task 3 Assign Agent 1 To Task 4 19 26 Total…

Three jobs are to be assigned to three machines. Costs for each job-machine combination appear in the table below. Find the total cost using the assignment method.     Machine A Machine B Machine C Job 1 11 14 6 Job 2 8 10 11 Job 3 9 12 7   Choose the correct answer:   A) 25 B) 28 C) 29 D) 21 E) 34

Statement of the ProblemKuala Lumpur Hospital, as we all know, is one of Malaysia's busiest hospitals. This is due to the fact that it admits a diverse range of patients suffering from a diverse range of disorders. These patients have arrived as a result of the health sector that operates in this facility. In other words, the departments within it are quite diverse. As a result, the hospital must deal with a high volume of both existing and new patients. Employees are required to gather patient personal information such as name, address, and so on for all of these admissions. It intends to capture and save their data for further use. Employee admissions, such as physicians and nurses, should also be recorded by the hospital. Furthermore, the hospital must manually record the many departments, rooms, and physicians in hospitals. It is also required to keep frequent records of patients, patients admitted to the hospital, doctor exams on patients, patients who have had surgery, and…

Using NETWORK and ASSIGNMENT MODEL for Operation Management/Research please solve the attached problem. Show Solution. Thanks

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Excel Online Activity: VLC Assume that a customer in the small contractor target market segment buys an electric drill on average every two years (or every 0.5 year) for $200, when the gross margin on the drill averages 40 percent. The data has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file below. Open the spreadsheet and perform the required analysis to answer the questions below.     Open spreadsheet   Questions 1. What is the value of a loyal customer (VLC) if the customer retention rate is 50 percent? Round your answer to the nearest cent. $ fill in the blank 2 2. What is the value of a loyal customer (VLC) if the customer retention rate increases to 75 percent? Round your answer to the nearest cent. $ fill in the blank 3 3. What is a 1 percent change in market share worth to the manufacturer if it represents 150,000 customers? Round your answers to the nearest dollar. 50 percent customer retention rate case: $ fill in the blank 4 75 percent customer retention rate case:…

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Consider a project with seven tasks. Three tasks – tasks 3, 4, and 5 – require a specific resource for completion; all needed resources must be available at the site before a task can be started. Task Duration Predecessor (s) Units of Value of Resource Completed Task Needed 3 3 10 $4000 3 1 10 S3000 3 12 $5000 1 4 7 2, 5,6 Each resource unit cost $100; no quantity discounts are available. In addition, it costs $2 per unit per time period to hold this resource in stock, and it costs $45 just to place an order for materials (independent of the number of units ordered). When should each task in the project be started and when and how many resources should be ordered to minimize total project costs? 1. 1, en en 1. 2. en

1. Power Notebooks, Inc. plans to manufacture a new line of notebook computers. Management is trying to decide whether to purchase the LCD screens for the computers from an outside supplier or to manufacture the screens in-house. The screens cost $100 each from the outside supplier. To set up the assembly process required to produce the screens in-house would cost $100,000. The company could then produce each screen for $75. The number of notebooks that eventually will be produced (Q) is unknown at this point. a. Set up a spreadsheet that will display the total cost of both options for any value of Q. Use trial-and-error with the spreadsheet to determine the range of production volumes for which each alternative is best. b. Use a graphical procedure to determine the break-even point for Q (i.e., the quantity at which both options yield the same cost). 2. Back Savers is a company that produces backpacks primarily for students. They are considering offering some combination of two…

Kelsie Corporation is using a predetermined overhead rate that was based on estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead of $510,000 and 30,000 machine-hours for the period. The company incurred actual total fixed manufacturing overhead of $517,000 and 27,000 total machine-hours during the period. The amount of manufacturing overhead that would have been applied to all jobs during the period is closest to: Select one: O a. $459,000 O b. $574,444 O c. $17 Od. $19.15

Best-ride airlines that operates seven days a week has the following time-table. Delhi - Mumbai   Mumbai - Delhi Flight No Departure Arrival 1 7.00 8.00 2 8.00 9.00 3 13.00 14.00 4 18.00 19.00   Flight No Departure Arrival 101 8.00 9.00 102 9.00 10.00 103 12.00 13.00 104 17.00 18.00 Crews must have a minimum layover of 5 hours between flights. Obtain the pairing of flights that minimizes layover time away from home. For any given pairing, the crew will be based at the city that results in the smaller layover. For each pair also mention the city where crew should be based.

9. Mrs. Laila is an academic staff at the Rustaq International Business Administration Department. She has almost 5 years' experience in teaching different courses. In this semester, she has taught the Tourism Information System course which contains different topics. In one topie, the teacher has to conduct a meeting with Omani and non-Omani students by using a video-conferencing method; yet, she does not have any experience on how to manage a conference meeting. Would you be able to help Mrs. Laila by explaining tactics that lead to an effective video-conferencing meeting?

Data concerning three of the activity cost pools of Salcido LLC, a legal firm, have been provided below: Activity Cost Pool Researching legal issues Meeting with clients Preparing documents Total Cost Total Activity $ 20,780 $ 1,174,173 $ 92,140 660 research hours 7,293 meeting hours 5,760 documents The activity rate for the "meeting with clients" activity cost pool is closest to: Multiple Choice $90 per meeting hour $71 per meeting hour $161 per meeting hour $1,174,173 per meeting hour

The chairperson of the department of management at Tech wants to forecast the number of students who will enroll in operations management next semester in order to determine how many sections to schedule. The chair has accumulated the following enrollment data for the past 15 semesters: Using 2 Semester Weighted moving average compute the forecasted number of student for semester 16 the weight are 4 for the most recent semester and 2 for the older one. Semester Students Enrolled in OM 1 270 2 310 3 250 4 290 5 370 6 410 7 400 8 450 9 440 10 470 11 520 12 515 13 525 14 542 15 503

An electricity power plant was redesigned so that the old system consisting of a single large display screen which could be seen by all of a team of three operators was replaced by individual workstation screens for operators. This worked well until there was a problem which resulted in dangerous gases being released. The team of operators had great difficulty in finding the source of the problem and deciding what to do. Because they no longer have access to all the information, they have to spend time explicitly co-ordinating their understanding of the situation by talking to each other. Under the old system, the knowledge would be shared – one operator would know what was happening with another’s area of the plant without explicit communication. Although the team’s individual responsibilities would still have been clearly divided, the knowledge of the system would be shared.   How could the new system of individual workstations be modified to make better use of distributed cognition?

A small-size cargo company in Dubai has been operating since the year 2000. The total workforce comprises ten employees, out of which five are in sales, three are in operations, one is handling legal and accounts matters, and one manager is also the owner of the company. Total annual turnover is enough to run the company smoothly. Recently another director has joined who brought large investment to the company. The Board of directors has decided to expand the business in other cities and establish offices overseas in potential locations. This expansion policy will directly be linked to the new manpower needs. Therefore, the board has decided to open an HR department with one HR manager and three staff to look after HR operations. The new HR manager has noticed that the company has a very convenient way of recording the data, where all transactions are recorded on excel documents. “this may not work in the new setup with many branches around the world”, he mentioned in the BOD meeting.…

Case: Selecting a ProgrammerMarie Pendergrass has been a data processing supervisor for two years. She is in the process of selecting a candidate for a programmer trainee position she has created. Her plan is to develop the trainee into a systems analysis within two years. Since this is a fast track, she needs a candidate whose aptitude and motivation is high.Fourteen candidates applied for the job in the employment section of the personnel department. Six were women, eight were men. An employment specialist screened the candidates for Mary, using a carefully prepared interview format that included questions to determine job-related skills. Six candidates, three women and three men, were referred to Marie.Marie then conducted structured, in-depth interviews and further narrowed the selection to one woman and two men. Her boss, a company vice-president, agrees wither judgment after hearing Marie’s description of the candidates. However, Marie’s boss feels particularly unsure of the…

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