a) Determine completion time for the project?b) The restaurant is expected to lose $3,500 per week f

a) Determine completion time for the project?b) The restaurant is expected to lose $3,500 per week for every week the restaurant is not completed. Given the expediting costs, the manager thinks that it may be worthwhile reducing the duration of the project. By how many weeks should the project completion time be reduced, if the restaurant chain is willing to pay crashing/expediting cost?c) What is the project duration if all activities are crashed to their minimum?Problem Asignment (Resource Allocation)
Total
points: 20

#1)
A restaurant chain is building a new restaurant. The following are the activities that need to
be completed to get the restaurant opened. In addition, data related to the
activities are provided in the following table.

Activity

Preceding Activities

Normal
Time (wks)

Crash Time
(wks)

Expediting (Crashing) cost per week ($)

A

–

9

8

3,000

B

A

19

15

1,800

C

A

15

14

2,000

D

B,C

5

5

–

E

C

10

6

4,000

F

D,E

2

1

1,000

a)
Determine
completion time for the project?
b)
The
restaurant is expected to lose $3,500 per week for every week the restaurant is
not completed. Given the expediting costs, the manager thinks that it may be
worthwhile reducing the duration of the project. By how many weeks should the project
completion time be reduced, if the restaurant chain is willing to pay
crashing/expediting cost?
c)
What
is the project duration if all activities are crashed to their minimum?

#2)
Given
the project shown in Figure 5-10 of
Chapter 5,assume that that the facility used by activities “c†and “d†is scarce. To which activity would you assign the facility
first, given the following priority rules:
(10 points)

a.
Minimum
slack first
b.
Most
followers (successors)
c.
Most
critical followers
d.
Shortest
task duration first
e.
As
late as possible