Your company has just received an order from a very important customer for specially designed electricity...

 

 

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Your company has just received an order from a very important customer for specially designed electricity generators for small block buildings of flats. The contract states that, starting on the thirteenth week from now, your firm will experience a penalty of $400 per week until the job is completed. Indirect project costs amount to $1500 per week. The data on direct costs and activity precedence relationships are given in Table 1 and Figure 1 below. Figure 1 B D 5 3 F 4 4 Table 1 ACTIVITY NORMAL CRASH NORMAL CRASH AVAILABLE CRASHING TIME TIME COST COST WEEKS OF COST / (S000s) 8 (S000s) CRASHING 14 WEEK A 4 B 3 11 C 4 4 10 10 D 5 3 10 15 E 4 1 11 14 1 A. Which is the critical path in the project network shown above? B. What will be the completion date if the company decides to do some crashing of any eligible activities? C. What will be the final penalty (if any) the company will have to pay after crashing eligible activities? Your company has just received an order from a very important customer for specially designed electricity generators for small block buildings of flats. The contract states that, starting on the thirteenth week from now, your firm will experience a penalty of $400 per week until the job is completed. Indirect project costs amount to $1500 per week. The data on direct costs and activity precedence relationships are given in Table 1 and Figure 1 below. Figure 1 B D 5 3 F 4 4 Table 1 ACTIVITY NORMAL CRASH NORMAL CRASH AVAILABLE CRASHING TIME TIME COST COST WEEKS OF COST / (S000s) 8 (S000s) CRASHING 14 WEEK A 4 B 3 11 C 4 4 10 10 D 5 3 10 15 E 4 1 11 14 1 A. Which is the critical path in the project network shown above? B. What will be the completion date if the company decides to do some crashing of any eligible activities? C. What will be the final penalty (if any) the company will have to pay after crashing eligible activities?

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Available weeks of crashing A 42 2 B 32 ... View the full answer