Snow-Bird Hospital is a small emergency-oriented facility located in a popular ski resort in Northern Michigan. Its new administrator, Mary Lord, decides to reorganize the hospital using the process-layout method she studied in business school. Click the icon to view the current layout of Snow-Bird's eight departments. Click the icon to view the number of trips by patients between departments in an average month. The only physical restriction perceived by Lord is the need to keep the entrance/initial processing room in its current location. All other departments or rooms (each of 10 feet square) can be moved if layout analysis indicates a move would be beneficial. Click the icon to view the improvement made by Lord. Is further improvement possible? If so, what is it? By allocating the spaces in the order in which the tasks are usually performed, total movement is feet (enter your response as a whole number). Snow-Bird Hospital is a small emergency-oriented facility located in a popular ski resort in Northern Michigan. Its new administrator, Mary Lord, decides to reorganize the hospital using the process-layout method she studied in business school. x Click the icon to view the current layout of Snow-Bir Data Table Click the icon to view the number of trips by patients The only physical restriction perceived by Lord is the nee indicates a move would be beneficial. fooms (each of 10 feet square) can be moved if layout analysis Area A Entrance (1) Area B Exam room 1 (2) Area C Exam room 2 (3) Area D X-ray (4) Click the icon to view the improvement made by Lor Is further improvement possible? If so, what is it? Lab test/EKG (5) Area E Operating room (6) Area F Recovery room Cast-setting room (7) (8) Area G Area H By allocating the spaces in the order in which the tasks a Print Done Snow-Bird Hospital is a small emergency-oriented facility located in a popular ski resort in Northern Michigan. 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If so, what is it? 20 0 0 20 X-ray (4) By allocating the spaces in the order in which the tasks are us 20 0 10 Lab test/EKG (5) 30 0 0 Operating room (6) Recovery room (7) Cast-setting room (8) Print Done Problem 9.10 (additional/stat - X Question Help More Info Snow-Bird Hospital is a small emergency-orien studied in business school. hospital using the process-layout method she Click the icon to view the current layout of First, Lord analyzes records to determine the number of patient movements among departments in an average month. Her objective, Lord decides, is to lay out the departments so as to minimize the total movement (distance traveled) of patients in the hospital. She writes her objective as B Click the icon to view the number of trips 8 8 The only physical restriction perceived by Lord indicates a move would be beneficial. feet square) can be moved if layout analysis Minimize patient movement = XiCjj i = 1j = 1 Click the icon to view the improvement md where Xij = number of patient movements per month (loads or trips) moving from department i to department Cij = distance in feet between departments i and j (which, in this case, is the equivalent of cost per load to move between departments) Is further improvement possible? If so, what is By allocating the spaces in the order in which t Lord assumes that adjacent departments, such as entrance (now in work area A) and exam room 1 (now in work area B), have a walking distance of 10 feet. Diagonal departments are also considered adjacent and assigned a distance of 10 feet. Nonadjacent departments, such as the entrance and exam room 2 (now in area C) or the entrance and recovery room (area G) are 20 feet apart, and nonadjacent rooms, such as entrance and X-ray (area D), are 30 feet apart. (Hence, 10 feet is considered 10 units of cost, 20 feet is 20 units of cost, and 30 feet is 30units of cost.) First, establish Snow Bird's current layout. Then, by analyzing the current layout, compute patient movement. Print Done Enter your answer in the answer box and the First, establish Snow Bird's current layout. Then, by analyzing the current layout, compute patient movement. Total movement = 6,700 feet Propose a new layout that will reduce the current figure of 6,700 feet. Two useful changes, for example, are to switch departments 3 and 5 and to interchange departments 4 and 6. This change would result in the schematic shown the following figure. Entrance (1) Exam room 1 (2) Lab test/EKG (5) Operating room (6) Exam room 2 (3) X-ray (4) Recovery room Cast-setting room (7) (8) Total movement = (100 x 10') + (100 x 10') + (50 x 10')+(20 10') + (30 x 10') + (30 x 20') + (20 x 10') + (20 x 20') + (20 x 10') + (10x10') + (30 x 10') = 4,800 feet Print Done