Discuss the below:
Q: The local university has developed an eight-step process for screening the thousands of admissions applications, gets each year. The number of applications has to be screened in an eight-hour day is it 200. The provost has decided the best way to take a first cut at all these applications is by employing a line process The table below shows the times and predecessors for the various tasks:
|
Tasks
|
Time
(m)
|
Precedence
|
|
A
|
1.2
|
none
|
|
8
|
1
|
A
|
|
C
|
0.6
|
B
|
|
D
|
1
|
8
|
|
E
|
1.3
|
C
|
|
F
|
0.7
|
D
|
|
G
|
0.8
|
D
|
|
H
|
OS
|
E, F, G
|
Can the university raise the daily productivity to screen 400 applications per day?Why or Why not?
What is the maximum number of applications the university can screen in a day?