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ASSIGNMENT ON PRODUCTIVITY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1. Carbondale Casting produces cast bronze valves on a 10-person assembly line. On a recent
day, 160 valves were produced during an 8-hour shift.
a. What is their productivity?
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2. Kimpel Products makes pizza ovens for commercial use. James Kimpel, CEO, is
contemplating to produce smaller ovens for use in high school and college kitchens. The
activities necessary to build an experimental model and related data are given in the
following table:
ACTIV
ITY
NORMAL
TIME
(WEEKS)
CRASH
TIME
(WEEKS)
NORMAL
COST
(PHP)
CRASH
COST
(PHP)
IMMEDIATE
PREDECESSO
R(S)
A 3 2 1,000 1,600 -
B 2 1 2,000 2,700 -
C 1 1 300 300 -
D 7 3 1,300 1,600 A
E 6 3 850 1,000 B
F 2 1 4,000 5,000 C
G 4 2 1,500 2,000 D, E
H 5 3 2,000 3,000 F, G
b. John Goodale, the manager at Carbondale, changed the layout and was able to
increase production to 180 units per 8-hour shift. What is the new labor productivity
per labor-hour? c. What is the percentage of productivity increase?

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a. Draw a Gantt Chart using the normal time.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
NORMAL TIME
(WEEKS)
b. Draw the Activity on node (AON) network.