Questions from General Operations Management

Q: You need to schedule 10 units of product Alpha for delivery in

You need to schedule 10 units of product Alpha for delivery in 6 weeks. Three units of D and 2 units of F are required for each Alpha. The lead time for Alpha is 1 week. Lead time for D is 1 week, and...

Q: Green Toys, a toy manufacturer in Cairo, Egypt, has

Green Toys, a toy manufacturer in Cairo, Egypt, has the following master production plan: Lead time = 1 week; setup costs = E£2,000; holding cost = E£5 per unit per week; Sto...

Q: Keebock, a maker of outstanding running shoes, keeps the soles

Keebock, a maker of outstanding running shoes, keeps the soles of its size 13 running shoes in inventory for one period at a cost of $.25 per unit. The setup costs are $50. Beginning inventory is zero...

Q: Ron Satterfield’s excavation company uses both Gantt scheduling charts and Gantt load

Ron Satterfield’s excavation company uses both Gantt scheduling charts and Gantt load charts. a) Today, which is the end of day 7, Ron is reviewing the Gantt chart depicting these schedules: ◆ Job #15...

Q: Lifang Wu owns an automated machine shop that makes precision auto parts

Lifang Wu owns an automated machine shop that makes precision auto parts. He has just compiled an input–output report for the grinding work center. Complete this report and analyse t...

Q: Dennis Geyer’s company wishes to assign a set of jobs to a

Dennis Geyer’s company wishes to assign a set of jobs to a set of machines. The following table provides data as to the cost of each job when performed on a specific machine. a) Dete...

Q: Ravi Behara, the managing partner at a large law firm in

Ravi Behara, the managing partner at a large law firm in Virginia, must assign three clients to three attorneys. Cost data are presented in the following table: Use the assignment algorithm to solve t...

Q: Henry Coupe, the manager of a metropolitan branch office of the

Henry Coupe, the manager of a metropolitan branch office of the state department of motor vehicles, attempted to analyse the driver’s license-renewal operations. He had to perform se...

Q: Jerry Wei, the hospital administrator at St. Charles General,

Jerry Wei, the hospital administrator at St. Charles General, must appoint head nurses to four newly established departments: urology, cardiology, orthopedics, and obstetrics. In anticipation of this...

Q: The Doan Modianos Manufacturing Company is putting out seven new electronic components

The Doan Modianos Manufacturing Company is putting out seven new electronic components. Each of Modianos’ eight plants have the capacity to add one more product to its current line o...