January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
236h 9m
English
A defense contractor is evaluating its machine shop's current layout. Figure K.4 shows the current layout, and the table shows the closeness matrix for the facility measured as the number of trips per day between department pairs. Safety and health regulations require Departments E and F to remain at their current locations.

Trips Between Departments |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Department |
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
A |
— |
8 |
3 |
9 |
5 |
|
B |
— |
3 |
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C |
— |
8 |
9 |
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D |
— |
3 |
||||
E |
— |
3 |
||||
F |
— |
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Use trial and error to find a better layout.
How much better is the proposed layout than the current layout in terms of the wd score?
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