Based on currently booke

A steel company must decide how to the following upper boun

allocate next week’s time on a rolling mill, placed on the amount of
which is a machine that takes unfinished product to produce:
slabs of steel as input and can produce Bands 7000 tons
either of two semi-finished products:
bands and coils. The mill’s two products Coils 6000 tons .
come off the rolling line at different rates: Given that there are 50 ho
Bands 140 tons/hr . production time available
the problem is to decide h
Coils 200 tons/hr tons of bands and how m
coils should be produced
Bands $ 25/ton greatest profit. Formulate
problem as a linear progra
Coils $ 30/ton . problem.
 n currently booked orders,
owing upper bounds are
on the amount of each
to produce:
000 tons
00 tons .
hat there are 50 hours of
tion time available this week,
blem is to decide how many
bands and how many tons of
ould be produced to yield the
t profit. Formulate this
m as a linear programming
m.
X1: Bands
X2: Coils

Per ton data: X1 X2

Tons /hour 140 200
Hour/Tons 0.007 0.005
Profit 25 30

Constrain of production 7000 6000

Constrain of mill hours 50
Consumed hours 50.000

Objetive=Z X1 X2
250000 2800 6000
SOLV 1
Per ton data: X1 X2
Tons /hour 140 200
Hour/Tons 0.007 0.005
Profit 25 30

Constrain of 7000 6000

Constrain of 50
Consumed ho 50.000

Objetive=Z X1 X2
250000 2800 6000