Question: please help me to do it in excel with graphs too thanks ! 1 ) An airline company must plan its fleet capacity and its

please help me to do it in excel with graphs too thanks !
1) An airline company must plan its fleet capacity and its long-term schedule of aircraft usage. For one flight segment, the average number of customers per day is 70, which represents a 65 percent utilization rate of the equipment assigned to the flight segment. If demand is expected to increase to 84 customers for this flight segment in three years, what capacity requirement should be planned? Assume that management deems that a capacity cushion of 25 percent is appropriate.
2) Macon Controls produces three different types of control units used to protect industrial equipment from overheating. Each of these units must be processed by a machine that Macon considers to be their process bottleneck. The plant operates on two 8-hour shifts, 5days per week, 52 weeks per year. Table 4.2 provides the time standards at the bottleneck, lot sizes, and demand forecasts for the three units. Because of demand uncertainties, the operations manager obtained three demand forecasts (pessimistic, expected, and optimistic). The manager believes that a 20 percent capacity cushion is best.
a) How many machines are required to meet minimum (pessimistic) demand, expected demand, and maximum (optimistic) demand?
b) How many machines are required if the operations manager decides to double lot sizes?
c) If the operations manager has three machines and believes that the plant can reduce setup time by 20percent through process improvement initiatives, does that plant have adequate capacity to meet all demand scenarios without increasing lot sizes?
Table 4.2
Capacity Information for Macon Controls
Time Standard Demand Forecast
Processing (hr/unit)
Setup (hr/lot)
Lot Size (units/lot)
Pessimistic Expected Optimistic A 0.051.06015,00018,00025,000 B 0.204.58010,00013,00017,000 C 0.058.212017,00025,00040,000
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