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Jonatan Jelen is considering opening a bicycle shop in New York City. Jonatan enjoys biking, but this is to be a business endeavor.
Orlando’s Arnold Palmer Hospital, founded in 1989, specializes in treatment of women and children and is renowned for its highquality rankings.
Rick Wing has a repetitive manufacturing plant producing automobile steering wheels. Use the following data to prepare for a reduced lot size.
Tej Dhakar’s company wants to establish kanbans to feed a newly established work cell. The following data have been provided. How many kanbans are needed?
Discount-Mart, a major East Coast retailer, wants to determine the economic order quantity (see Chapter 12 for EOQ formulas) for its halogen lamps.
Discount-Mart as part of its new Lean program, has signed a long-term contract with Specialty Lighting and will place orders electronically for its halogen.
The average reliability of each component is 99.0%. Using Figure, determine the overall reliability of the processing unit.
Determine a sequence that will minimize the total completion time for these jobs. Illustrate graphically.
The following set of seven jobs is to be processed through two work centers at George Heinrich’s printing company.
The following jobs are waiting to be processed at Jeremy LaMontagne’s machine center. Today is day 250.
Sunny Park Tailors has been asked to make three different types of wedding suits for separate customers.
In what sequence would the jobs be ranked according to the following rules: (a) FCFS, (b) EDD, (c) SPT, and (d) LPT?
These jobs were logged as they arrived. All dates are specified as planning calendar days. Assume that all jobs arrived on day 180; today’s date is 200.
All dates are specified as manufacturing planning calendar days. Assume that all jobs arrive on day 275. Which decision is best and why?
The Green Cab Company has a taxi waiting at each of four cabstands in Evanston, Illinois. Four customers have called and requested service.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the shortest processing time (SPT) rule? What is a due date?
What is the overall objective of scheduling? List the four criteria for determining the effectiveness of a scheduling decision.
Why does Wheeled Coach have excess inventory, and what kind of a plan would you suggest for dealing with it?
Courtney Kamauf schedules production of a popular Rustic Coffee Table at Kamauf Enterprises, Inc.
The entire fabrication for these units is scheduled on one machine. There are 2,250 usable minutes in a week, and each unit will take 65 minutes to complete.
The entire fabrication for these units is scheduled on one machine. There are 2,250 usable minutes in a week.
Develop a POQ solution and calculate total relevant costs for the data in the preceding table.
What are the similarities between MRP and DRP? How does MRP II differ from MRP?
Once a material requirements plan (MRP) has been established, what other managerial applications might be found for the technique?
Southeastern Airlines’s daily flight from Atlanta to Charlotte uses a Boeing 737, with all-coach seating for 120 people.