Chapter $1($Stevenson$)$

Introduction to Operations Management

Chapter $1($Slack & Lewis$)$

An Introduction to Operations Strategy

Homework Assignment for $36$ points

$36$ points due by $11\mathrm{.}59$ pm January $23($Tuesday$).$

Please provide detailed solutions to the following problems$/$exercises $(2$ problems$/$exercises x $18$ points each; with $1$a$),1$b$),1$c$)$ being $6$ points each$)$:

$1)$ The problems $1$a$),1$b$),$ and $1$c$)$ pertain to chapter $1,$ Stevenson.

Note: You can team up with one of your classmates to complete the assignment $($not more than two in a team$)$ only for problem$/$exercise $1)$; if you want to work individually, that$$s also fine. If you are working in teams, then only one submission is required per team; include both the team members$$ last names as part of the assignment submission file name as well as in the assignment submission document.

a$)$ Caravan Engineering is a job shop that produces temperature probes used in COD digesters. The firm operates out of an L$-$shaped building with two workspaces, one for manufacturing $,$ and the other for assembling. The manufacturing workspace produces parts at a rate of sixty per day; the assembling work space uses those parts at a rate of forty five per day. Each day the unused parts are added to inventory. The firm$$s inventory manager wants to know the rate of buildup of the inventory of unused parts.