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- The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
- Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
- Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
- Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
- Late submission will NOT be accepted.
- Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
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- Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
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- Understand the concept of process selection, forecasting, capacity planning, production forecast methods and schedule operations.
- Exercise critical thinking to analyze and synthesize information for scheduling operations and ERP.
- Develop numerical skills needed to analyze complex data of process design, quality management, capacity & scheduling planning to navigate in challenging situations.
- Create the capacity to write coherent project about actual operation management case studies.
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Assignment Question(s):(Marks 5)
Sequence the jobs shown below by using a Gantt chart. Assume that the move time between machines is one hour. Sequence the jobs in priority order 1, 2, 3, 4.
Job Work Center/Machine HoursDue Date (days) | ||
1 | A/3, B/2, C/2 | 3 |
2 | C/2, A/4 | 2 |
3 | B/6, A/1, C/3 | 4 |
4 | C/4, A/1, B/2 | 3 |
- Using finite capacity scheduling, draw a Gantt chart for the schedule (Marks 0.5)
- What is the makespan? (Marks 0.5)
- How much machine idle time is there? (Marks 0.5)
- How much idle time (waiting time) is there for each job? (Marks 0.5)
- When is each job delivered? (Marks 0.5)
- Which department is the bottleneck? (Marks 0.5)
- Calculate the machine utilization? (Marks 0.5)
Question 2:
A public accounting firm requires the following activities
for an audit:
Activity | Immediate Predecessor | Activity time |
A | – | 3 |
B | A | 2 |
C | – | 5 |
D | B, C | 2 |
E | A | 4 |
F | B, C | 6 |
G | E, D | 5 |
- Draw a network for this project? (Marks 0.5)
- Make a forward pass and a backward pass to determine ES, LS, EF, and LF? (Marks 0.5)
- What are the critical path? (Marks 0.5)