TechValley Inc. management has decided to automate the warehouse operation in one of their large warehouses in London by installing a computercontrolled orderpicking system, along with a conveyor system for moving its equipment from storage to the warehouse shipping area.

The director of management has been named the project manager in charge of the warehouse automation system project. After consulting with members of the engineering staff and warehouse management personnel, the director compiled a list of activities associated with the project. The executives of TechValley want to know the earliest time to complete the project. They also want to know whether some of the activities could be crashed, and the project can be completed even earlier with an extra minimum cost.

Develop a report that presents the activity schedule and expected project completion time for the warehouse expansion project. Include a project network in the report. In addition, take into consideration the following issues:

Construction of the network diagram.

Performance of an eventbased analysis, ie obtaining earliest event times TE and latest event times TL inserting them appropriately into the diagram and, hence, obtaining the critical path and project duration showing all formula and calculations.

Performance of an activitybased analysis, ie obtaining total float TF and free float FF showing the values TF and FF in a table and, obtaining the critical path and project duration showing all formula and calculations.

The executive of the company established a required week completion time for the project. Can this completion time be achieved? What recommendations do you have if the week completion time is required?

Using the completion times and the crashing information, determine the activity crashing decisions and revised activity schedule for the warehouse expansion project showing all formula and calculations.

A critical appraisal.