MSC 516 Operations Management
Fall 2012 – Problem Set 5
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Instructions: This Problem Set is open-book and open-notes. All work must be done entirely by yourself. You may not receive help from any other person nor may you give help to any other person. This Problem Set has been posted on Blackboard on November 5th and will be due on November 11th. Leave each of the questions just as they are when you are submitting your answers to the questions. Enter your answers immediately below each question using Times New Roman, regular, 12 point font using black characters only. Do ALL of your work on this document. Even if your answer is correct, it will receive no credit if it is not supported by
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What is the cost per application of this new configuration?
Lesson 9 – B Solve all parts of Problem 9-11 in your text.
a.) What is the cycle time?
D=180 units, where D is the demand in the cycle.
T = 60 minutes, where T is the amount of time available.
b.) What is the theoretical minimum number of workstations that Rosen can achieve in this assembly line.
c.) Can the theoretical minimum actually be reached when workstations are assigned? Lesson Nine – C. Work has just been completed on a new wing (in the form of a single corridor with offices on one side only) of the building housing the School of Business. The dean decided to assign rooms in this wing to the five faculty members in the Finance Department. The dean believes that he should do everything he can to facilitate communication among his faculty, so he decided to assign particular rooms to these five professors based upon the frequency with which they visited each other’s offices over the last month. The distance between offices is 20 feet and the average number of trips per month is shown in the table below. Prof
Able Prof
Baker Prof
Charles Prof
Delta Prof
Easy
Prof Able —
Prof Baker 87 —
Prof Charles 64 56 —
Prof Delta 37 32 91 —
Prof Easy 93 35 54 43 —
Find the room assignment that should minimize the total distance travelled by the professors in the new wing, assuming of course that this pattern continues. You MUST show
Deanna didn’t choose the best way to plan and design the new athletic training room for the high school. She did what the planning committee asked her to do by meeting with the architect and discussing her ideas for the athletic training room, but she wasn’t very realistic and seemed to be asking for a lot. If she would have gone through the phases of designing and constructing an athletic training room she probably wouldn’t have proposed such an expensive design. The first phase is to conduct a needs assessment. In this phase a program statement is formed to help the architect determine what the space requirements are for the athletic training room. Since Deanna didn’t do this, the architect can’t get an idea if the 2,500 square feet that she proposed is realistic or not. She should have also
Problems #65 - #94 from page 311. Please provide your answer after each problem and submit the file with your answers through Blackboard.
The classroom is large, colorful, bright and well lit. It is divided in six parts. The room has two windows and one exit door. When entering the room 26,
INCLUDES SOLUTIONS INCLUDES MARKERS’ REPORTS This is a three (3) hour paper. You have ten (10) minutes reading time. There are seven (7) questions. There are eight (8) pages, including this one. You must answer all parts of all questions. The questions are not of equal value. All answers must be written in blue or black ink. Show all relevant working.
For problems 12 to 14, do the following: (a) Make a scatter diagram of the
Driving under the Influence is a dangerous trend and is known to cause many critical accidents and deaths which could have been easily prevented. Even though the consequences for DUI arrests are strict, they seem to not be effective enough. The toll of alcohol-related deaths, repeated offenders, and accidents is still rising, leaving the streets dangerous and families devastated. Over half the drivers arrested for drunk driving in the nation, are repeated offenders. I stand strongly against drunk drivers; They are a threat to themselves and society and believe that they should be taught a tough lesson when caught. Therefore, the charges for Driving Under the Influence laws need to
Description / Instructions: Complete the following Week 1 Assignment in WileyPLUS: * Exercise 8-4 * Exercise 8-11 * BYP 8-1 * BYP 8-2
Problem Set 1 is to be completed by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 2.
Answer each problem thoroughly. Each problem is worth 10 points. Make sure to provide detailed explanations for each part of each problem.
The Payroll Department has a minicomputer on which it runs the payroll twice monthly. The Sales and Marketing department has a desktop computer for each account representative. All the computers are connected to a LAN, which serves only the Sales and Marketing department. The Accounts Receivable Division has recently replaced its old minicomputer with a more powerful microcomputer. This new server supports databases for both customer billing and bad debts. The Accounts Payable Division maintains
(9) Solve exercise 14.14 (a, b, c) on page 390 from the course text book (5th edition). For the 4th edition users, the question is 13.14 (a,b,c)
This assignment has a maximum total of 100 marks and is worth 10% of your total grade for this course. You should complete it after completing your course work for Units 1 through 5. Answer each question clearly and concisely.
4) The Problem Set #1 (only the question solutions portion) is due at the end of the day on September 24th.
Mrs. Lawrence had her students’ desks arranged in three rows of grouped tables. The first row is composed of eight tables and chairs, second row is composed of nine tables and chairs, the third row is composed of eleven tables and chairs, and one table is leaned up against the teacher’s desk.