1. A powered truck transports materials inside of a manufacturing plant. The truck travels 138 meters loaded and 138 meters unloaded each delivery cycle. The loading time and unloading time are the same and equal to 1.5 minutes each. The truck travels at a rate of 55 meters/minute. The traffic factor is 0.93, the availability is 0.96, and the driver availability is 0.8. Determine

   a) the ideal delivery cycle time in minutes

   b)The overal availalbe time for the vehicle including worker availability in minutes of available time per hour

   c) What is the workload in minutes per hour if we want to make 80 deliveries per hour?

   d) How many vehicles do we need to make those 80 deliveries per hour?

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