Bolling Electronics manufactures DVD players for commercial use. W. Blaker Bolling, president of Bolling Electronics, is contemplating
Question:
Bolling Electronics manufactures DVD players for commercial use. W. Blaker Bolling, president of Bolling Electronics, is contemplating production DVD players for home use. The activities necessary to build an experimental model and related data are listed in the following table:
Activity | Normal Time | Crash Time | Normal Cost | Total Cost w/ Crashing | IP |
A | 3 | 2 | 1400 | 2100 | - |
B | 2 | 1 | 2300 | 3000 | - |
C | 1 | 1 | 350 | 350 | - |
D | 7 | 3 | 1400 | 1720 | A |
E | 6 | 3 | 850 | 1075 | B |
F | 2 | 1 | 4250 | 5750 | C |
G | 4 | 2 | 1600 | 2100 | D,E |
a). Based on the given information regarding the activities for the project, the project completion date = ______ weeks
b). To reduce the duration of the project to 10 weeks at the least cost, the following is the order of what needs to be followed while crashing the activities:
The first activity to crash is _____ by 2 weeks at a per week crashing cost of ____ dollars.
Next, one should crash activity D and activity _____ by 2 weeks for an additional total per week crashing cost of ____ dollars.
c). New requirements are to reduce the project to 7 weeks. Continuing to crash the activities from 10 weeks based on the above crashing already completed, the following is the order for crashing:
Next activity to crash in order is ____ by 2 weeks at a per week crashing cost of _____ dollars
Nest, one should crash activity ____ and activity E by 1 week at a total per week crashing cost of ____ dollars.
Total cost of crashing the project to 7 weeks = _____ dollars.