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Case 6
Statewide Development Corporation
PROF. Dennis Berino
Submitted by:
Group 1
Lourdes Cid
Harold Cruz
Carmela Magday
Christine Marie Pagdanganan
Case background:
Statewide Development Corporation has built a very large apartment complex in Gainesville, Florida. As part of the student-oriented marketing strategy that has been developed, it is stated that if any problems with plumbing or air conditioning are experienced, a maintenance person will begin working on the problem within one hour. If the tenant must wait more than one hour for the repairperson to arrive, a $10 deduction from the monthly rent will be made for each additional hour of time waiting. An answering machine will take the calls and record the time of the …show more content…

The time required to resolve a problem if the part is available on site varies according to the following:
|Time for Repair |Probability |
|(minutes) | |
|30 |.45 |
|60 |.30 |
|90 |.20 |
|120 |.05 |

Following considerations in repairing the problem: • It takes approximately 30 minutes to diagnose difficult problems for which parts are not on site • Once a part has been obtained from the supply house, it takes approximately one hour to install the new part. • If any new calls have been recorded while the maintenance person has been away picking up a new part, these calls will wait until the new part has been installed.
The cost of salary and benefits for a maintenance person is $20 per hour. Management would like to determine whether two maintenance people should be working on weekends instead of just one. It can be assumed that each person works at the same rate.
Discussion questions: 1. Use simulation to help you analyze this problem. State any assumptions that you are making about this situation to help clarify the problem. 2. On a typical weekend day, how many tenants would have to wait more than an hour, and how much money would the company have to credit these

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