If two machines are allocated to a worker which of the following will be true?

Practical Management Science
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Chapter12: Queueing Models
Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models
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In a furniture manufacturing facility, there is a drilling shop with semi-automated machines. For an operator, it takes 20 seconds for a worker to move from one machine to the other. To load a drilling job to the machines a worker spends 3 minutes. Once loaded machines finish the drilling job in 4 minutes. The worker spends 40 seconds to conduct a quality check for the finished parts. If two machines are allocated to a worker which of the following will be true?

Machines will have idle time

   

Neither machines nor the worker will have idle time

   

The worker and the machines both will have idle time

   

Worker will have idle time

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