Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
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ISBN: 9781478623069
Author: Steven Nahmias, Tava Lennon Olsen
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
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Chapter 7.5, Problem 24P

a)

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Interpretation: utilization of employees.

Concept introduction: The M/M/1 queue assumes poisonarrivals, exponential service times, and a single server serving customers in a FCFS fashion. Poisson arrivals are a reasonably good assumption for unscheduled systems. Further if there is a mix of many different types of jobs the exponential distribution can be realistic for service times. Otherwise it tends to be too variable of a distribution.

b)

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interpretation: the average time an email spends waiting before an employee starts working on it.

concept introduction:The M/M/1 queue assumes poison arrivals, exponential service times, and a single server serving customers in a FCFS fashion. Poisson arrivals are a reasonably good assumption for unscheduled systems. Further if there is a mix of many different types of jobs the exponential distribution can be realistic for service times. Otherwise it tends to be too variable of a distribution.

c)

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Interpretation:average number of emails in the system waiting to be worked on.

Concept introduction: The M/M/1 queue assumes poison arrivals, exponential service times, and a single server serving customers in a FCFS fashion. Poisson arrivals are a reasonably good assumption for unscheduled systems. Further if there is a mix of many different types of jobs the exponential distribution can be realistic for service times. Otherwise it tends to be too variable of a distribution.

D)

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Interpretation:options available to decrease customers waiting.

Concept introduction:The M/M/1 queue assumes poison arrivals, exponential service times, and a single server serving customers in a FCFS fashion. Poisson arrivals are a reasonably good assumption for unscheduled systems. Further if there is a mix of many different types of jobs the exponential distribution can be realistic for service times. Otherwise it tends to be too variable of a distribution.

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