that is total cost of crashing the project to 7 weeks? should be thousand someti
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that is total cost of crashing the project to 7 weeks?
should be thousand someting!!
Kimpel Products makes pizza ovens for commercial use. James Kimpel, CEO, is contemplating producing smaller ovens for use in high school and college kitchens. The activities necessary to build an experimental model and related data are listed in the following table Total Cost Normal Time Crash Time Normal Activity (weeks) (weeks) Cost Crashing Immediate Predecessor(s) $1.200 S1,850 $2.100 $2,800 $300 $1,500 $1,800 $950 $1,175 $4.000 $5,500 $1.800 2,300 S300 D, E a) Based on the given information regarding the activities for the project, the project completion date14 weeks. b) To reduce the duration of the project to 10 weeks at the least cost, the following is the order of what needs to be followed while crashing the activities: The first activity to crash is D by 2 weeks at a per week crashing cost of 75 dollars. Next, one should crash activity D and activity Eby 2 weeks for an additional total per week crashing cost of 150 dollars. c) New requirements are to reduce the project to 7 weeks. Continuing to crash the activities from 10 weeks based on the above crashing already completed, the following is the order for crashing Next activity to crash in crder is by 2 weeks at a per week crashing cost of 250 dollars. Next, one should crash activity A and activity E by 1 week at a total per week crashing cost of 725 dollars. Total cost of crashing the project to 7 weeks-dollars.Explanation / Answer
Project Path with duration are:
ADG = 14
BEG = 12
CF = 3
Crash cost per day for each activity is = (Crash cost - Normal cost)/(Normal time - Crash time)
Total crashing cost for 7 weeks = D*4 + E*3 + G*2 + A*1 = 75*4 + 75*3 + 250*2 + 650*1 = 1675
Activity Normal Time Crash Time Normal Cost Crash cost Cost cost per week A 3 2 1200 1850 650 B 2 1 2100 2800 700 C 1 1 300 300 0 D 7 3 1500 1800 75 E 6 3 950 1175 75 F 2 1 4000 5500 1500 G 4 2 1800 2300 250Related Questions
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