Amazon Basics manufacture MP3& media players, bluetooth accessories, flash drives, and memory sticks for the consumer electronics
Question:
Amazon Basics manufacture MP3 & media players, bluetooth accessories, flash drives, and memory sticks for the consumer electronics market. The company is beginning the production of a new MP3 player composed of the following activities (use the designated letters in the parenthesis when developing your network diagram) Both [A] developing product specifications and [B} Evaluation of equipment can begin immediately. [A] takes two weeks (optimistically), 5 weeks (most likely) , or 7 weeks (pessimistically) and [B} takes (2,4,8) weeks. Next is [C] the construction of the prototype which takes (6,8,11) weeks. [C] can begin after the product specifications and evaluation of equipment are completed. After both developing product specifications and the construction of the prototype are completed, [D] design of the manufacturing process can begin and takes (3,6,9) weeks. [E] purchasing materials and equipment takes (2,5,7) weeks and can only be done after evaluation of construction and equipment of the prototype are completed. [F] the documentation report can be written in (1,2,4) weeks after design of manufacturing process is finished. And once the documentation report is written and purchasing of materials and equipment are purchased, the final activity, [G] transition to production, can be completed in (5,8,13) weeks. The project manager would like the finish the entire project in 32 weeks.
A) Draw the PERT network diagram
B) Identify all possible critical paths and use the calculating time estimates template to find the total time and standard deviation for each path above and identify the critical path
C) If the probability of finishing the project in 32 weeks is not at least 92% she wil consider crashing some of the activities. What is the probability that the project will be completed in 32 weeks? Should the managers evaluate the option of crashing some of the activities?
Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis
ISBN: 978-0133428704
15th edition
Authors: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan