Operation Management

CASE STUDY

The Indian Electric company manufactures two popular brand of ceiling fans, Cool home and A1 Bahar. Each fan is processed through two main departments: machine shop, assembly and testing shop which have respectively 1200 machine hours and 1600 man hours of available capacity per day. Each cool home fan requires 3 hours of capacity of machine shop and one hour capacity of assembly and testing shop. Similarly each A1 bahar fan requires 2 hours of machine shop and assembly shor capacity. The market for the two models has been surveyed recently which suggests that a maximum of 250 nos of Cool Home and 200 nos of Al Bahar can be sold per day.

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