At Lummins Engine Corporation, production employees work 10 hours per day, 4 days per week. Each day

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At Lummins Engine Corporation, production employees work 10 hours per day, 4 days per week. Each day of the week, at least the following number of employees must be working: Monday through Friday, 7 employees; Saturday and Sunday, 3 employees.

Lummins has set the following goals, listed in order of priority:

■ Goal 1: Meet employee requirements with 11 workers.

■ Goal 2: The average number of weekend days off per employee should be at least 1.5 days.

■ Goal 3: The average number of consecutive days off an employee gets during the week should not exceed 2.8 days.

Use goal programming to determine how to schedule Lummins employees.

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Practical Management Science, Revised

ISBN: 9781118373439

3rd Edition

Authors: Wayne L Winston, S. Christian Albright

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