MGT 311 SEU Finite Capacity Scheduling and Simulation Systems Case Study Questions
Question Description
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- Understand the concept of process selection, forecasting, capacity planning, production forecast methods and schedule operations.
- Apply knowledge and skills to optimize production objective of maximizing profits using qualitative and quantitative techniques in related areas of operations management.
- Exhibit the knowledge of lean system, quality controls and green systems
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)
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) |
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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)
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