Use Johnson's Rule to Determine the Optimal Sequencing for the Five

question 5

Essay

Use Johnson's rule to determine the optimal sequencing for the five jobs to be processed on two machines in a fixed order (Machine 1 before Machine 2).The processing times are given in the table below.
a.What is the optimal sequence?
b.What is the total flow time for this sequence?

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