a company needs help in creating a schedule and resource breakdown structure for an upcoming project. They have a relatively simple project, but due to the constraints and requirements for resources, they need your help in creating a project schedule and a cost baseline. Based on the information provided below, create a network diagram, find the critical path, establish the project duration, and create a resource breakdown structure. Make sure to identify equipment, materials, personnel and software. Do not worry about Saturdays or Sundays in this analysis, consider all days as working days. Remember when you do this type of analysis in real life you will need to account for weekends.

A new assembly line is being installed in the factory. The first activity in the process is to conduct a layout survey, which takes 2 days to complete. A maintenance engineer is required to complete the layout survey and needs access to the plant layout prints and the computer aided drawing system to complete the work. After the survey is completed, the electrical and pneumatic lines can be installed. This activity should take 5 days and must be completed by a certified electrician and a manufacturing engineer. As a part of this activity two hundred feet of pipe, three hundred feet of electrical conduit, and three hundred feet of electrical wiring is required.

Also after the layout survey is completed, the workbenches, hand tools, industrial strength cleaning solvents for preparing the floor, and manufacturing fixtures can be purchased. The ordering of these items must be completed by an advanced purchasing engineer. This activity takes 2 days to complete. After the purchase orders are entered, the shipment, delivery, and inspection of all items can be completed in 7 days.

When all of the items have been delivered and inspected and when the electrical and pneumatic work has been completed, the workbenches and fixtures need to have fixture tags installed by an asset management technician. This work takes two days to complete. Once this activity is completed, the fixtures and workbenches can be installed. Unfortunately, this work needs to be completed by an advanced manufacturing engineer and she will be on vacation on the day the asset tagging activity is scheduled to be completed and she will not arrive until three days after the asset tagging is scheduled to be completed. For this task, she will need the use of an industrial strength drill and forklift. She estimates that the work will take 4 days to complete. Luckily, the cleaning of the floor by the sanitation engineer can be completed immediately after all the items arrive and takes 2 days.

After the workbenches and fixtures have been installed and the floor has been cleaned, a pilot run can be completed on the line. This pilot run requires three technicians and one batch of ingredients (flour, sugar, salt, chocolate, peanuts, rice) and takes 1 day. As soon as the pilot run starts, the assembly line must be setup in the SAP software system. This activity requires one data entry specialist and takes 3 days for full completion.

When the pilot run is completed and the assembly line has been setup in SAP, the line can be prepped for full production. This activity can be completed in 4 days and requires a line supervisor and a food technician. The only items that are required for the line preparation are cleaning agents and sanitized towels. The last activity is the loading of the packing unit. This can only happen 2 days after the line preparation is complete and takes only 1 day to complete. Loading the packing unit requires a packaging engineer and a batch of corrugated cartons.