Question

1. The Ace Manufacturing Company has orders for three products. Each product can be produced on one of three different machines. The time (hours) for producing each product on each machine is given below:

Product

Machine                      A                    B                     C

                 1                             11                    12                    10

                 2                             12                    9                     11

                 3                             13                    15                    12       

Each machine can be assigned to only one product. Set up the objective function and the constraints necessary to minimize the total time.

Answer 1