Assignment:
A company wishes to assign a set of jobs to a set of machines. The following table provides data on the cost of production of each job when performed on a specific machine.
|
Machine
|
|
Job
|
A
|
B
|
C
|
D
|
|
1
|
27
|
29
|
28
|
30
|
|
2
|
30
|
29
|
27
|
26
|
|
3
|
31
|
25
|
29
|
26
|
|
4
|
29
|
31
|
25
|
28
|
- Applying the Hungarian manual method, make optimal assignments of jobs to machines such that overall cost is minimized.
- Assign variables using a systematic nomenclature and place them in a travel chart of jobs and machines like the above chart.
- Formulate this assignment as an LP problem to be solved using some software such as excel solver. Write the objective function, the constraints and the non-negativity equation. [You are not being asked to fully solve the problem using the excel solver program.]
Your answer must be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format and also include references.