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Chapter 9, Problem 2CS
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Case summary:
Person HR the manager of the metropolitan branch made an attempt to analyze the driving license renewal operations. The various steps and the time taken for each of them are analyzed.
He identified that the work was divided unequally between the workers. This led to long queues during peak periods. He was under severe pressure to increase the productivity while satisfying the incoming demand.
To determine: The number of applications that can be processed in an hour.
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(1) Enter the number of the following tasks for each of the tasks shown in the table below.
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(2)Assign tasks to stations in order of the greatest number of following tasks. Use greatest positional weight as a tiebreaker rule.
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(3) What is the daily output under this arrangement a using the cycle time from Part b(1)? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
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(4) Determine the output rate that would be associated with using the maximum cycle time. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
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b. (1) What is the shortest cycle time that will permit use of only two workstations? (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)
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(2) Determine the percentage of idle time that would result if two stations were used…
Explain what are the techniques available to operation manager to deal with a bottleneck operation and which of these does not decrease thorough out time ?
Given this list of tasks, how much idle time is at station 3 if the cycle time is 15 minutes and the Longest Operation Time heuristic is used? Task Duration (min) Predecessor A 8 -- B 7 A C 9 B D 6 C E 7 C F 7 D,E G 9 F H 12 G ANSWER Unselected 3 minutes Unselected 2 minutes Unselected 1 minute Unselected I DON'T KNOW YET
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