Operations Management Finance and operations problems

Job Processing Time (Days)

Due Date (Days)

Remaining Number of Operations

A 8 20 2 B 10 18 4 C 5 25 5 D 11 17 3 E 9 35 4

a. Hint:

Sequence for First come, first served (Click to select) 

Sequence for Slack per operation (Click to select) 

b. (Round your answers to 2

decimal places.)

First Come, First Served Slack per Operation

Average completion time

Average number of jobs

Hint #1

Hints

Order Order Size

(units)

Per Unit Time in Heat Treatment (minutes/unit)

Due Date (min. from now)

A 16 4 160 B 6 12 200 C 10 3 180 D 8 10 190 E 4 1 220

a. If the due date rule is used, what sequence should be used?

The sequence is (Click to select)  .

b. What will be the average job tardiness? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Average job tardiness

c. What will be the average number of jobs in the system? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Average number of jobs

d. Would the Shortest processing time rule produce better results in terms of average job tardiness? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

(Click to select)  new average job tardiness is minutes.