A Missouri job shop has four departments machining (M), dipping in a chemical bath (D), finishing (F), and plating (P) assigned to four work areas. The operations manager, Mary Marrs, has gathered the following data for the movement of material. The number of workpieces moved yearly between work areas are: M D F P
M - 800 2,000 200
D - - 400 400
F - - - 2,000
P - - - -
It costs $0.75 to move 1 workpiece 1 foot in the job shop. For the layout design of the job shop,
LAYOUT PLAN A:
Distance between work areas (departments) in feet:
M D F P
M - 21 12 8
D - - 5 10
F - - - 4
P - - - -
The yearly total material handling cost of the current layout presented in PLAN A.

Historically, 12 percent of a mail-order firm's repeat charge-account customers have an incorrect current address in the firm's computer database. the number of customers out of 19 who have an incorrect address in the database is a binomial random variable with n = 19 and 2formula36.mml = 0.12.

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