NUMBER OF TRIPS PER DAY BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS From то 3 4 5 6 10 40 51 26 23 20 12 11 35 37 16 27 15 18 18 18 36 3 18 20 14 50 18 25 36 4 35 14 14 22 23 31 5 24 14 13 21 25 17 44 42 25 14 33 40 43 35 47 10 в 1A Elevators

Gordon Miller's job shop has four work areas, A, B, C, and D. Distances in feet between centers of the work areas are: Workpieces moved per week between work areas are: A C ABCD A A It costs Gordon $1 to move 1 work piece 1 foot. The weekly total material handling cost of the layout= $ (enter your response as a whole number). B T B 900 C 8 7 C 800 400 D 6 11 D 500 400 700 D

Service operations often face more difficulty in planning than their manufacturing counterpart. However, service does have certain advantages that manufacturing often does not. Explain service planning difficulty, and the advantages and disadvantages.

Consider the following tasks, times, and predecessors for an assembly of set-top cable converter boxes: TASK ELEMENT A B PRECEDING TASKS A TIME (MINUTES) 3 3 C 4 B D 3 E 5 C, D F 3 A G 3 H F G I 3 E, H Given a cycle time of 10 minutes, develop two alternative layouts. Use the longest task time rule and the largest number of following tasks as a secondary criterion. What is the highest efficiency of your layout, assuming the 10-minute cycle time? Note: Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places. Efficiency %