1. The following figure depicts the mean (average) flow time for a job when the critical-ratio rule is used to dispatch workers at several machines required to complete the job. In the figure, WHN 1, WHN 2, and WHN 3 represent three different rules for determining when a worker should be transferred to another machine, and Where represents six rules for determining the machine to which the worker is transferred. Construct a 3 × 6 matrix A to represent these data, with entries rounded to the nearest integer.

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2. In an evaluation of labor assignment rules when workers are not perfectly interchangeable, Paul M. Bobrowski and Paul Sungchil Park created a dynamic job shop with 9 work centers and 9 workers, both numbered 1-9. The efficiency of each worker is specified in the following labor efficiency matrix, which represents the degree of worker cross-training.
(a) For what work center(s) is worker 7 least efficient?
(b) For what work center is worker 1 most efficient?
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WHN I WHN 2 WHN 3 35 Source: Bobrowski, P. M., and P. S. Park 30 25 15 10 2. + Flow time (hr/job) 1 1.00 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 1.00 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.85 0.85 0.85 W o 0.85 0.85 1.00 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 1.00 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.85 r 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 1.00 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.95 k 0.95 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 1.00 0.95 0.95 0.95 e 0.95 0.95 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 1.00 0.95 0.95 r 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 1.00 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.95 0.85 0.85 0.85 0.85 1.00