Question 3) (15 points) Andy Candybar is a mechanical engineer who is grappling with the problem of failing machines in a production facility and his supervisor tasked him with developing systematic approach to address the issue. His unit is responsible from the operation of four workstations that perform jobs in changing sequences (depending on the manufacturing steps required to process a component) and they are under constant pressure to meet the daily production goals. He is an expert in fine details of mechanical functions performed at each workstation, but he needs some help on developing a holistic solution that may include decisions on routine maintenance activity and how to plan production under the new operational measures taken to mitigate failures. Suppose he approaches 2 you for consultation. I need you to express your opinion about this situation (from a production planner's perspective) considering the below questions in mind. i) What should be your objective in solving this problem? What are the decisions to be made? ii) What are the critical variables and parameters? What piece of data should you collect to get a better understanding of the problem? What kind of an experimental setup do you recommend? What alternatives might be tested in such an experiment? This is an open-ended question. State your interpretation of this decision situation clearly. Answers with a couple or a few sentences will surely not deserve the full credit however reasonable they might be