MGT 311 Saudi Electronic Introduction to Operations Management Discussion
Question Description
Assignment Question(s):(Marks 10)
Question 1:
Workers should be given more control over the inspection for their own work. Discuss the pros and cons of this situation? (Marks 2)
Question 2:
- What are the advantages of Exponential smoothing over the Moving average and the Weighted moving average? (Marks 2)
- Explain the aggregate planning strategy? (Marks 2)
Question 3:
Sequence the jobs shown below by using a Gantt chart. 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 1)
- 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)
Have a similar assignment? "Place an order for your assignment and have exceptional work written by our team of experts, guaranteeing you A results."