5) Amazon has asked you to come up with a design for their drone delivery system

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5) Amazon has asked you to come up with a design for their drone delivery system. You have three designs to choose from. The weight the drone can carry and cost are equally important but the time it takes is less important and the distance it can carry a product for is the most important factor.

Design 1:

Cost: $50,000 Weight Capacity: 50 lbs. Distance: 500 miles Time: 6 hours

Design 2:

Cost: $35,000 Weight Capacity: 30 lbs. Distance: 300 miles Time: 6 hours

Design 3:

Cost: $15,000 Weight Capacity: 20 lbs. Distance: 200 miles Time: 4 hours

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Question: b) Develop a Pugh Matrix and identify the optimal design option ?

Please answer the question with showing work NOT just putting numbers OR final results. type your answer!!! Thanks

Explanation / Answer

the above pugh matrix is derived as follows

according to the question the distance is given the first criteria followed by weight and cost and time the last criteria. the baseline is taken as desgn 1 and the rating is given by ocmparing design 1 and ther designs. Ahigher value more than baseline is given a score of 1 and lower value 0 and the next lower value is given -1. on calculation the design 3 has got the highest score and the optimal design that incurs less cost and less time and coveing 200 miles of distance.

the best design is design 3.

Criteria Weight ( baseline design 1) design1 score design2 design 3 Distance 4 (500) +1 -1 0 cost 3 $(50,000) -1 0 +1 Weight 2 (50 lbs) +1 -1 0 time 1 (6 hours) -1 0 +1 total 0 -2 +2

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