New York Building Corporation is monitoring construction Job #181 using critical path method and is currently 2 weeks behind schedule, subjecting them to a $10,500 per-week penalty. The normal completion time along critical path A-D-E-F-G-H-I is 22 weeks. Crashing activities BC, DE, and EF can potentially reduce completion time but at added costs per week crashed listed. New York Building wants to minimize delays to reduce penalties while maximizing annual income and should determine which activities to crash.
New York Building Corporation is monitoring construction Job #181 using critical path method and is currently 2 weeks behind schedule, subjecting them to a $10,500 per-week penalty. The normal completion time along critical path A-D-E-F-G-H-I is 22 weeks. Crashing activities BC, DE, and EF can potentially reduce completion time but at added costs per week crashed listed. New York Building wants to minimize delays to reduce penalties while maximizing annual income and should determine which activities to crash.
New York Building Corporation is monitoring construction Job #181 using critical path method and is currently 2 weeks behind schedule, subjecting them to a $10,500 per-week penalty. The normal completion time along critical path A-D-E-F-G-H-I is 22 weeks. Crashing activities BC, DE, and EF can potentially reduce completion time but at added costs per week crashed listed. New York Building wants to minimize delays to reduce penalties while maximizing annual income and should determine which activities to crash.
New York Building Corporation uses the critical path method to monitor
construction jobs. The company is currently 2 weeks behind schedule on
Job #181, which is subject to a P10,500 per-week completion penalty. Path A-B-C-F-G-H-I has a normal completion time of 20 weeks, and critical path A-D-E-F-G-H-I has a normal completion time of 22 weeks. The following activities can be crashed.
Activities Cost to Crash 1 Week Cost to Crash 2 Weeks
BC 8,000 15,000 DE 10,000 19,600 EF 8,880 19,500
New York Building desires to reduce the normal completion time of Job # 181 and, at the same time, report the highest possible income for the year. New York Building should crash