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    This document discusses several examples of scheduling and sequencing problems involving operations management. It provides scenarios involving scheduling patient appointments at medical offices, sequencing jobs through multiple work centers or departments to minimize idle time and flow time, and assigning contracts to trucks to maximize profit. The exercises propose analytical problems and questions to determine optimal schedules and sequences under different constraints.

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    This document discusses several examples of scheduling and sequencing problems involving operations management. It provides scenarios involving scheduling patient appointments at medical offices, sequencing jobs through multiple work centers or departments to minimize idle time and flow time, and assigning contracts to trucks to maximize profit. The exercises propose analytical problems and questions to determine optimal schedules and sequences under different constraints.

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    This document discusses several examples of scheduling and sequencing problems involving operations management. It provides scenarios involving scheduling patient appointments at medical offices, sequencing jobs through multiple work centers or departments to minimize idle time and flow time, and assigning contracts to trucks to maximize profit. The exercises propose analytical problems and questions to determine optimal schedules and sequences under different constraints.

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    Scheduling and Sequencing

    Critical Thinking Execises


    1. Doctors’ and dentists’ offices frequently schedule patient visits at regularly spaced
    intervals. What problems can this create? Can you suggest an alternative approach to reduce
    these problems? Under what circumstances would regularly spaced appointments constitute a
    reasonable approach to patient scheduling?
    2. Name three examples of unethical behavior involving scheduling and state the ethical
    principle each violates.

    Exercises
    1. Use the assignment method to obtain a plan that will minimize the processing costs in the
    following table under these conditions:
    a. The combination 2-D is undesirable.
    b. The combinations 1-A and 2-D are undesirable.

    2. Given the operation times provided:


    a. Develop a job sequence that minimizes idle time at the two work centers.
    b. Construct a chart of the activities at the two centers, and determine each one’s idle
    time, assuming no other activities are involved.

    3. The production manager must determine the processing sequence for seven jobs
    through the grinding and deburring departments. The same sequence will be followed in both
    departments. The manager’s goal is to move the jobs through the two departments as quickly
    as possible. The foreman of the deburring department wants the SPT rule to be used to
    minimize the work-in-process inventory in his department
    a. Prepare a schedule using FCFS and SPT for the grinding department.
    b. What is the flow time in the grinding department for the FCFS and SPT sequence? What is
    the total time needed to process the seven jobs in both the grinding and deburring departments?
    c. Determine a sequence that will minimize the total time needed to process the jobs in both
    departments. What flow time will result for the grinding department?
    d. Discuss the trade-offs between the alternative sequencing arrangements. At what point
    would the production manager be indifferent concerning the choice of sequences?
    4. How should you assign the contracts to the trucks?
    (100.000VND)
    Truck Con. 1 Con. 2 Con. 3 Con. 4 Con. 5
    A 7 6 8 9 8
    B 10 8 9 6 7
    C 8 10 9 8 10
    D 9 9 10 8 9
    E 8 7 6 7 6
    a. To maximize the profit.
    b. Assign the contracts to the trucks so that profit for each truck must be >700.000 VND
    c. If there is a new contract with the profit (10, 9, 8, 11, 10) (100.000VND), will your
    answer (a) change?
    5. Find out the optimum sequence for processing the jobs.

    JOB TIME (Hour)


    WS 1 WS 2 WS 3
    A 8 8 10
    B 14 6 18
    C 12 7 14
    D 9 7 9
    E 15 8 17

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