BM1710

ASSIGNMENT ON PRODUCTIVITY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1. Carbondale Casting produces cast bronze valves on a 10-person assembly line. On a recent day, 160 valves
were produced during an 8-hour shift. (3 items x 5 points)
a. What is their productivity?
b. John Goodale, the manager at Carbondale, changed the layout and was able to increase production
to 180 units per 8-hour shift. What is the new labor productivity per labor-hour?
c. What is the percentage of productivity increase?
2. Kimpel Products makes pizza ovens for commercial use. James Kimpel, CEO, is contemplating to produce
smaller ovens for use in high school and college kitchens. The activities necessary to build an experimental
model and related data are given in the following table: (5 items x 5 points)
NORMAL TIME CRASH TIME NORMAL CRASH IMMEDIATE
ACTIVITY
(WEEKS) (WEEKS) COST (PHP) COST (PHP) PREDECESSOR(S)
A 3 2 1,000 1,600 -
B 2 1 2,000 2,700 -
C 1 1 300 300 -
D 7 3 1,300 1,600 A
E 6 3 850 1,000 B
F 2 1 4,000 5,000 C
G 4 2 1,500 2,000 D, E
H 5 3 2,000 3,000 F, G

a. Draw a Gantt Chart using the normal time.

b. Draw the Activity on node (AON) network.
c. Determine the critical path.
d. Solve for the slack time per activity.
e. Solve for the crash cost per period.
f. What activities should you crash if James Kimpel wants to reduce the project time to 15 weeks?
3. A renovation of the gift shop at Orlando Amway Center has six (6) activities (in hours). For the following
estimates of a, m, and b, calculate the a) expected time and the b) standard deviation for each activity: (2
items x 5 points)
ACTIVITY a m b
A 11 15 19
B 27 31 41
C 18 18 18
D 8 13 19
E 17 18 20
F 16 19 22

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CRITERIA POINTS
Complete solution with correct answer. 5
Last two (2) major steps of the solution are incorrect. 4
Half of the solution is correct. 3
First two (2) major steps of the solution are correct. 2
First major step of the solution is correct. 1

REFERENCES
Gupta, S. & Starr, M. (2014). Production and operations management systems. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Heizer, J., Render, B., & Munson, C. (2017). Operations management: Sustainability and supply chain management
(12th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education Inc.

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