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Company ABC has five milling machines on its manufacturing floor. It wishes to implement a tool crib. which will contain tooling and other supplies for technicians to perform routine maintenance. After reviewing the current equipment layout, management determined that there are three potential locations for the new tool crib. The locations of the five milling machines and number of expected trips/month between that machine and the tool crib are listed below: Possible sites for the new tool crib are: Determine the optimal location for the new tool crib such that the total distance the technicians have to travel is minimized. It is fair to say that the construction costs for the new crib are identical in each location and distance is measured rectilinearly.

Explanation / Answer

Min Z=600*((ABS(A2-20)+ABS(B2-25))+400*ABS(A2-36)+400*ABS(B2-18)+500*ABS(A2-62)+500*ABS(B2-37)+300*ABS(A2-50)+300*ABS(B2-56)+200*ABS(A2-25)+200*ABS(B2-0))

since 28653000 is least , we choose site 1

X Y Z 50 50 28653000 30 45 31518000 65 28 28888800

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