Homework #1 Solutions 3.1 a. Let X1 =the number of hours of process 1 used X2 =the number of hours of process 2 used The objective is to minimize the cost of producing the three products A‚ B and C. The constraints are on the demand of each product. Min 4X1 + X2 subject to 3X1 + X2 ≥ 10 (A’s demand) X1 + X2 ≥ 5 (B’s demand) X1 ≥ 3 (C’s demand) X1 ‚ X2 ≥ 0 (nonnegativity) b. From the graph we can see that the isocost line just leaves the feasible region where the demand for C and B intersect. The
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Comparison of Simulation Software Paper You are the industrial engineer for a 200-person firm that manufactures backpacks. Your firm has never used simulation software before. You believe that you could justify the purchase of the software by conducting one study per month‚ which results in an average savings of $3‚000 per study. The studies would be company wide analyzing inventory‚ material handling‚ and warehousing problems‚ to name a few. The firm’s senior executives strongly endorse
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TUTORIAL 2 Linear Programming - Minimisation Special cases Simplex maximisation 1. Innis Investments manages funds for a number of companies and wealthy clients. The investment strategy is tailored to each client’s needs. For a new client‚ Innis has been authorised to invest up to $1.2 million in two investment funds: a stock fund and a money market fund. Each unit of the stock fund costs $50 and provides an annual rate of return of 10%; each unit of the money market fund costs
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The city of Atlantis is a small city with plenty of parks‚ sidewalks and minimum traffic. Housing consists mostly of detached homes and apartments. The following is a brief description of the simulation that takes a person thru supple & demand of two bedroom units. Having to determine the monthly rate of the two bedroom units or the quantity needed at the monthy rate. As property manager of Gold Life Management‚ there are seven complexes that need to be managed. As we are the only firm that rents
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company’s managerial actions. According to Ansoff strategic management requires “entrepreneurial creation of new strategies for the firm‚ design of new organizational capabilities and guidance of the firm’s transformation to its new strategic posture”. 1 Following this definition the most important factors that are apparent in that process are: innovation‚ strategic focus and planning. Johnson and Scholes argues that “strategic management is concerned with deciding on strategy and planning how that strategy
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Case 26 Lease Analysis Prudent Solutions‚ Inc. Assistants to Tony Davis Executive Summary: The Data Acquisition System (DAS) is initially estimated to cost $41.25 million if purchased outright. This purchase can be done using currently invested short-term marketable securities. Leasing is also an option with payments estimated at $12.75 million per year. After analyzing each scenario using the discounted cash flow method‚ the best option is to lease the equipment rather
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Assignemnt 2 Problem 3-3 Model 3-1 was has been run for 8 hours (480 minutes) instead of 20 minutes. The plots on queue length and the number of times the drill press is busy or idle for the 8-hour run is given figure 1. Figure 1 (Simple Processing System with 8 hours of time) The primary performance related results are compared in table 1. Table 1: Performance Measures | 20 minutes run | 480 minutes run (8 hours) | Total Production | 5 | 89 | Avg. Wait Time | 2.52 | 3.33 | Avg
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There was a dilemma regarding sustainable economic development in my company‚ Spectrum Sunglass Company. Due to the request of “green” from Bigmart‚ which was the largest retail customer‚ my company should have decided whether its strategy plan needed to be adjusted. I was the Director of Product Innovation within the R&D unit‚ in addition to being a resolute advocate for reducing the company’s dependence on petrochemical raw materials. However‚ much resistance took place. I had 96 weeks to persuade
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Running head: SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS 1 Sustainable Solutions Paper Katherine Kem DBA Strategy Dr. Robert Hockin‚ Instructor February 21‚ 2010 Running head: SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS Sustainable Solutions Paper Walmart has some of the best supply chain methods in the market‚ and is working to become an industry leader in sustainability. Despite this‚ there is much criticism of this ‘giant’‚ and an in-depth look of their organization from a sustainable lens will review their successes‚ failures
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HRM Simulation Final Report Absenteeism Our goal for absenteeism was to decrease it from 498 to 120 by quarter 8 by maintaining high morale and offering health benefits to keep employees healthy. We also planned to keep our accident rate low in order to reduce absenteeism. We decided to focus the fringe benefits we offered on health benefits. We thought this strategy would work because we felt that absenteeism was caused by three factors: employee sick days (health)‚ employee injury claims (accident
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