Sequencing Model
Sequencing Model
(i) Determine the optimal sequence. (ii) If down time of any of the six plants costs Rs.5000 per day, idle
costs for crew A costs Rs.1500 per day and idle time of crew B costs Rs.2500 per day, which of the two
schedules, the present one or the one determined in part (i), will be more economical? What are their
respective costs?
8. A manufacturing company processes 6 different jobs on two machines A and B. Number of units of each
jobs and its processing times on A Job 1 2 3 4 5 6
and B are given in the table. Find Nos. of unit of each job 3 4 2 5 2 3
the optimal sequence, the total Processing Machine A 5 16 6 3 9 6
minimum elapsed time and idle time Machine B 8 7 11 5 7.5 14
time for either machine.
9. A machine operator has to perform three
operations: turning, threading and Job 1 2 3 4 5 6
knurling on a number of different jobs. Time for turning (Minute) 3 12 5 2 9 11
The time required to perform these Time for turning (Minute) 8 6 4 6 3 1
operations (in minute) for each job is Time for turning (Minute) 13 14 9 12 8 13
known. Determine the order in which the job should be processed in order to minimize the total time
required to turn out all the jobs. Also find the idle times for the three operations.
10. There are five jobs, each of which is to be processed
through three machines A,B and C in the order ABC. Job 1 2 3 4 5
Processing times in hours are: A 3 8 7 5 4
Determine the optimum sequence for the five jobs and B 4 5 1 2 3
C 7 9 5 6 10
the minimum elapsed time. Also find the idle time for
the three machines and waiting time for the jobs.
11. Find the sequence that minimizes the total elapsed time
required to complete the following tasks. Each task is Job 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
processed in any two of the machines A, B and C in any A 12 6 5 3 5 7 6
order. B 7 8 9 8 7 8 3
C 3 4 11 5 2 8 4
12. Using graphical method, determine the optimal
sequence needed to process jobs 1 and 2 on five machines. A,B,C,D and E. For each machine find the job
which should be done first. Also calculate the total time needed to complete both the jobs:
12.1 Job 1 Sequence A B C D E
Time (hrs) 1 2 3 5 1 Job 1 Sequence A B C D E
Sequence C A D E B Time (hrs) 6 8 4 12 4
Job 2
Time (hrs) 3 4 2 1 5 Sequence B C A D E
Job 2
Time (hrs) 10 8 6 4 12
13. Two major parts P1 and P2 for a product require processing through six machine centres. The
technological sequence Part Machine Sequence C A E F D B
of the parts on six P1 Time (hrs) 2 3 4 5 6 1
machines and Part Machine Sequence B A E F C D
manufacturing times P2 Time (hrs) 3 2 5 3 2 3
on each machines are: What would be the optimal scheduling to minimize the total processing time for
these two parts? Find also the total elapsed time. For each machine specify the job that should be done
first.
14. The workshop has six machines A,B,C,D,D
and F. Two jobs have to be processed Time in hours on machine
Plant A B C D E F
through each of these machines. The
Job 1 20 30 10 10 25 15
processing time on each machine and
Job 2 10 15 30 10 20 15
technological sequence of jobs is given
below. Job 1: A-C-D-B-E-F, Job 2 : A-C-B-D-F-E
In which order should the jobs be done on each of the machines to minimize the total time required to
process the jobs? Also find the minimum elapsed time.