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SQQP 3103 Operations Engineering A202 Group Assignment 1

The document provides instructions and questions for a group assignment on operations engineering. It includes 4 questions related to project scheduling, network diagrams, critical paths, and crashing project durations at minimum cost. Students are asked to submit their answers in a single PDF file with their group number and names included.

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SQQP 3103 Operations Engineering A202 Group Assignment 1

The document provides instructions and questions for a group assignment on operations engineering. It includes 4 questions related to project scheduling, network diagrams, critical paths, and crashing project durations at minimum cost. Students are asked to submit their answers in a single PDF file with their group number and names included.

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SQQP 3103 OPERATIONS ENGINEERING

A202

Group Assignment 1

Submission requirement: All calculations and answers must be in hand written

Submission guideline: Please scan your answers in a single PDF format file. Name your
document as follows: Group number Group Assignment1 A202. Ensure that you list all of the
group member names and their matric numbers in the assignment front cover.

Example document name: Group 1 Group Assignment1 A202

Question 1

The activities, immediate predecessors and times of for a project are given in the following
table:

Immediate
Activity Time (days)
Predecessor(s)
A — 2
B — 5
C — 1
D B 10
E A, D 3
F C 6
G E, F 8

a) Develop an AON network for this problem.


b) What is the critical path?
c) What is the total project completion time?
d) What is the slack time for each individual activity?
e) Draw a Gantt chart for the project.

Question 2

The tasks, durations and predecessor relationships for a project are given in the following table:

Immediate Time Estimates (week)


Activity
Predecessor(s) Optimistic Most Likely Pessimistic
A — 4 8 10
B A 2 8 24
C A 8 12 16
D A 4 6 10
E B 1 2 3
F E, C 6 8 20
G E, C 2 3 4
H F 2 2 2
I F 6 6 6
J D, G, H 4 6 12
K I, J 2 2 3

a) Draw the AON network


b) What is the expected (estimated) time for each activity?
c) What is the variance for each activity?
d) Based on the calculation of the estimated times, what is the critical path?
e) What is the estimated time of the critical path?
f) What is the activity variance along the critical path?
g) What is the probability of completion of the project before week 36?
h) What is the due date that gives the project a 99% chance of on-time completion?

Question 3

The activities necessary to build a project and related data are given in the following table:

Normal time Crash time Normal cost Crash cost Immediate


Activity
(week) (week) (RM) (RM) Predecessor(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

a) What is the project completion date?


b) If you wish to reduce the time required to complete this project by 1 week, which activity
should be crashed, and how much will this increase the total cost?
c) Crash this project to 10 weeks at the least cost.
d) Crash this project to 7 weeks (which is the maximum it can be crashed) at the least cost.

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