Prob 1 Blinkies is the 24-hour hot spot in town. The work schedules start every three hours and are listed below with the number of staff members neede for each three hour period. Staffers may be assigned 6 hour shifhts (for which they are paid $50) or 9 hour shifts (for which they are paid $65) A manager is rquired for eac ...continues
Speedy oil provides a single channel automobile oil change and lubrication service. Customers provide an arrive rate of 2.5 cars per hour. The service rate is 5 cars per hour. Assume that arrivals follow a Poisson probability distribution and that service times follow an exponential probability distribution. a) What is the a ...continues
See attached file for full problem description. 1. VeriFast Semiconductor makes memory chips for digital electronics manufacturers, and it has expensive equipment in its plant that has to be used for multiple product lines. Photolithography is one of the critical steps in wafer fabrication facilities, and lithography unit R2D ...continues
See attached file for full problem description. 3. The neighborhood Clinkos copier store has three copiers: C1, C2, and C3. Customers that come to the store can be categorized into two types of jobs: large volume and small volume jobs. Currently, Copiers C1 and C2 are only assigned to customers with large volume copy jobs, a ...continues
See attached file for full problem description. 4. Mad Hatter’s You are hired as a consultant to a growing national fast food chain, which serves a mix of basic sandwiches, salads and gourmet pizzas, and has both eat-in and take-out customers. You are visiting the Durham restaurant and given the below information about ...continues
Linear Programming - Transport Problem
Linear Programming problem. There are 2 sections and 3 parts to each sections. Basically to formulate appropriate mathematical model to obtain optimum costs.
Quantitative Analysis in Business Decisions
Mr. Davison has been operating a small bicycle shop at the same location near Aspen, Colorado for 50 years. What type of decisions must he make in operating his business? On what basis would he likely be making these decisions? How do you think Mr. Davison would respond to a suggestion that he hire a quantitative analyst to assi ...continues
Decision-Making, Decision Variables, Modeling and Optimization
You need to decide where to locate call centers and determine the routing of calls to achieve the lowest total cost. You are considering seven cities in which to locate call centers. You know the average cost incurred if a call is made from any of these cities to any region of the country. (See first table below) You also know t ...continues
Operations - Economic Order Quantity, Base Stock Model, Recommended Order Qty
1. Suppose that the R&B Beverage Company has a soft drink product that has a constant annual demand rate of 3600 cases. A case of the soft drink costs R&B $3. Ordering costs are $20 per order and holding costs are 25% of the value of the inventory per year. R&B has 250 working days per year and the lead time is 5 days. Identi ...continues
1. In a job shop effective capacity is only 50% of design capacity and actual output is only 90% of effective output. What design capacity would be needed to achieve actual output of 8 jobs per week. 2. The below diagram shows a process that consists of eight separate operations with sequential relationships and capacities ...continues
