Zipco Printing Operates a Shop That Has Five Printing Machines

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Essay

Zipco Printing operates a shop that has five printing machines.The machines differ in their capacities to perform various printing operations due to differences in the machines' designs and operator skill levels.At the start of the workday there are five printing jobs to schedule.The manager must decide what the job-machine assignments should be.
a.How could a quantitative approach to decision making be used to solve this problem?
b.What would be the uncontrollable inputs for which data must be collected?
c.Define the decision variables,objective function,and constraints to appear in the mathematical model.
d.Is the model deterministic or stochastic?
e.Suggest some simplifying assumptions for this problem.

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