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A company which manufactures canoes employs 120 employees, each of whom working 30 hours per week. Half of them work in the carpenter department, 20 persons in the plastics department, and the rest of them at the completion department. The company manufactures the simple canoes with net unit profit € 7 and the luxury canoes with corresponding profit € 10. A simple canoe requires 4.5 hours in the carpenter department and two hours in each of the other two departments. The working hours for each luxury canoe are 5, 1 and 4 at the carpenter department, plastics department and completion department respectively. Marketing calculations have shown that not less than 1/3 and not more than 2/3 of the total number of the canoes should be luxurious. How will the company maximize its overall net profit? Formulate the appropriate LP model.
Solution:-
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A company which manufactures canoes employs 120 employees, each of whom working 30 hours per week. Half of them work in the carpenter department, 20 persons in the plastics department, and the rest of them at the completion department. The company manufactures the simple canoes with net unit profit € 7 and the luxury canoes with corresponding profit € 10. A simple canoe requires 4.5 hours in the carpenter department and two hours in each of the other two departments. The working hours for each luxury canoe are 5, 1 and 4 at the carpenter department, plastics department and completion department respectively. Marketing calculations have shown that not less than 1/3 and not more than 2/3 of the total number of the canoes should be luxurious.
How will the company maximize its overall net profit? Formulate the appropriate LP model.
Given
Empoyees = 120
Employee working hr per week = 30
Number of employees in each dept
Carpentry = 60
Plastics = 20
Completion = 40
Supply available
Working hrs available at each department = Number of employees in each dept * working hrs available for each employee per week.
Carpentry = 60 * 30 = 1800 hrs
Plastics = 20 * 30 = 600 hrs
Completion = 40 * 30 = 1200 hrs
Unit profit
Simple canoes = 130 pounds
Luxury canoes = 180 pounds
Hrs required | Hrs required | Hrs required | ||
Unit profit | Carpentry | plastics | completion | |
Simple canoes | 130 pounds | 4.5 | 2 | 2 |
Luxury canoes | 180 pounds | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Hrs available in each department | 1800 | 600 | 1200 |
Solution
Number of canoes in each type
Simple canoes = 120
Luxury canoes = 240
Profit = 58800 pounds
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