Need help on MG375DLBU1A2020 Production & Operations Mgmt

Overview

These are questions and problems that follow each chapter in your textbook. You will find that Chapter Questions, Quantitative Problems, and Web Exercises have been assigned. They are graded based upon agreement with the textbook. To improve your homework score, you should focus on making your answers both complete and correct. 

See the  Assignments and Grading page  for more grading information.

Directions

1. You are to work alone to analyze and prepare answers/solutions for the following questions and/or case studies.

· The text should be your primary source of information for this assignment. 

· Note: Do not copy answers from other internet sites.  It is plagiarism when you use another person’s answers rather than preparing your own submission.  Park University maintains a university license agreement for an online text matching service called Turnitin. This tool may be used to evaluate the originality of student papers in this course. Other services and techniques may also be applied to evaluate your work for evidence of appropriate authorship practices as needed.

2. Consolidate your response into one file for submission. 

· You will have to import Excel spread sheets and graphs into your Word documents. 

Due Date

· By Sunday at 11:59 P.M., CT. 

Questions and Problems

1. Chapter 5: Case: Product Design Project (page 164). Answer all six questions in the textbook. You must use a project network analysis to answer these questions. (20 Points)

2. Chapter 5: Discussion Question number 1 (page 157). (5 Points)

1. The project network diagram is as shown below.EST Early start time EFT Early finish time LST Late start time LFT Late finish time 21 D1 1 da 23 24 27 11 3 days 30 ESTE EFT 2. The start and finish times for each activity is mentioned in the network diagram. The minimum number of weeks for completing the project is 37 weeks

D1 1 da 23 24 27 1-3 days 30 35 D3 1 da 23 D4 4 days 14- 4 days 31 2424 28 23 27 S1 5 Days 12 4 days 13 4 days D2 2 days 21 1

The activities that are on the critical path for completing the project in the shortest time are

P1 -> P2 -> P3 -> P4 -> S1 -> D2 -> I2 -> I3 -> I4 -> V2

3. Identify slack in the activities not on the project critical path.

Activity EST LST Slack = LST - EST

S2 16 19 3

D1 21 23 2

D3 21 23 2

D4 23 24 1

I1 27 28 1

V1 22 25 3

4. Using dedicated teams that would work strictly in parallel on the activities in each subproject. And all the subprojects done sequentially with P done first, then S, D, I, and finally V.

P -5 days P1 -2 Days P2-4 Days P3 -5 Days P4 - 5 Days S-6 days D- 4 days D1-1 day D2 -2 days D3 1 day D4 -4 days 4 daysV - 10

The time taken to complete the project = P + S + D + I + V = 5+6+4+4+10 = 29

The time taken to complete the project if all the activities within subproject are done parallely is 29 days.