Question: The required maintenance workload for the next four months in a food processing plant is 5 5 0 , 4 0 0 , 3 6

The required maintenance workload for the next four months in a food processing plant is 550,400,360, and 445 man-hours, respectively. The demand can be met by either regular time at a cost of SR 40 per hour, overtime at a cost of SR 70 per hour or subcontract at cost of SR 95 per hour. Regular time capacities are listed following, overtime capacity cannot exceed 25% of regular time capacity at any month. Late maintenance (backlog) costs extra SR 15 per hour per Period. Subcontract hours are available but can only be purchased in 120-hour contract. (This means that you cannot use less than 100 hours of subcontract hours, increment of 100 hours).

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