Sid Das Brick Distributors in Jamaica currently employs 1 worker whose job is to load bricks on
Question:
Sid Das Brick Distributors in Jamaica currently employs 1 worker whose job is to load bricks on outgoing company trucks. An average of 24 trucks per day, or 3 per hour, arrive at the loading platform, according to a Poisson distribution.
The worker loads them at a rate of 4 trucks per hour, following approximately the exponential distribution in his service times.
Das believes that adding an additional brick loader will substantially improve the firm’s productivity. He estimates that a 2-person crew loading each truck will double the loading rate
(m) from 4 trucks per hour to 8 trucks per hour. Analyze the effect on the queue of such a change, and compare the results to those achieved with one worker. What is the probability that there will be more than 3 trucks either being loaded or waiting?
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Operations Management: Sustainability And Supply Chain Management
ISBN: 9780135225899,9780135202722
13th Edition
Authors: Jay Heizer; Barry Render; Chuck Munson