A job shop has work centers arranged as follows:

Assume that it costs $1/unitary distance and that the monthly loads are as shown in the following From/To matrix.

a. Calculate the load-distance cost of the current job shop layout.
b. Calculate the load-distance cost of the proposed alternative layout.
c. Based on your analysis, does the proposed layout improve the layout of the job shop based on the load-distance cost?

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