Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780136860419
Author: Lee Krajewski
Publisher: Pearson Education
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Chapter 9, Problem 10P
Six processes are to be laid out in six areas along a long corridor at Rita Gibson Accounting Services in Daytona Beach. The distance between adjacent work centers is 40 feet. The number of trips between work centers is given in the following table:
- a. Assign the processes to the work areas in a way that minimizes the total flow, using a method that places processes with highest flow adjacent to each other.
- b. What assignment minimizes the total traffic flow?
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A service process is described by the above flowchart. After going through workstation A, an order needs to be processed by one of the three lines, B1-C1-D1, B2-C2-D2, or B3-C3-D3 (in other words, they are substitutable). Finally, all orders need to go through workstation E.
The capacities of the individual workstations are given as follows:
Workstation A has a capacity of 2 orders/hour
Workstation B1, B2, and B3 have the same capacity of 3 orders/hour
Workstation C1, C2, and C3 have the same capacity of 3 orders/hour
Workstation D1, D2, and D3 have the same capacity of 3 orders/hour
Workstation E has a capacity of 4 orders/hour
What is capacity of the service process in orders/hour?
Note: Please do not include the unit of measure. For example, if your answer is 10 orders/hour, enter 10.
Chapter 9 Solutions
Operations Management
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