EXERCISE ON RESOURCE ANALYSIS - NETWORK CRASHING

The time and cost estimates of different activities of a project and their
precedence relationship are as given below:

Time - Weeks Cost - Rupees

Preceding
Activity
Activity
Normal Crash Normal Crash
A - 6 4 10000 14000

B - 4 3 5000 8000

C A 3 2 4000 5000

D B 8 3 1000 6000

E B 14 6 9000 13000

F C, D 8 4 7000 8000

Overhead costs amount to Rs. 1,000 per week. It is stipulated that the
contractor will have to pay a penalty of Rs. 2,000 per week for completing
the project beyond 16 weeks.

 Show the critical path in a squared network diagram.

 Find out the cost slope for every activity using normal and crash data
for time and cost.

 Crash the project to 16 weeks, Estimate the total cost of crashing.