Week 1 -- Problem Solving Assignment - University of …

1 1. [Productivity] Ch 2 Page 66 Problem 7 The following table shows data on the average number of customers processed by several bank service units each day. The hourly wage rate is $25, the overhead rate is times labor cost, and material cost is $5 per customer. the labor productivity and the multifactor productivity for each unit. Use an eight-hour day for multifactor a new, more standardized procedure is to be introduced that will enable each employee to process one additional customer per day. Compute the expected labor and multifactor productivity rates for each per DayLabor CostOverhead CostMaterial CostTotal CostLabor ProductivityMFP per DayLabor CostOverhead CostMaterial CostTotal CostLabor ProductivityMFP A440B545C868D323 week 1 -- Problem Solving AssignmentMonday, June 16, 2014 10:07 AM MIS-373 Page 1 2. [Product Layout] Ch 6 Page 281 Problem 3A manager wants to assign tasks to workstations as efficiently as possible and achieve an hourly output of four units.

2 The department uses a working time of 56 minutes per hour. Assign the tasks shown in the accompanying precedence diagram (times are in minutes) to workstations using the following rules: order of most following tasks. Tiebreaker: greatest positional is the efficiency? of Following TasksPositional Weight abcdefghi =StationTime RemainingEligibleWill FitAssign(task time)Revised Time RemainingIdle1 MIS-373 Page 2 StationTime RemainingEligibleWill FitAssign(task time) = Percent idle time = 3. [Process Layout] Ch 6 Page 284 Problem 12 Arrange the eight departments shown in the accompanying Muther grid into a 2 4 format. Note:Department 1 must be in the location shown. MIS-373 Page 3 A LinksX Links1-31-72-32-42-73-54-74-86-87-8 MIS-373 Page 4