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Business, 12.07.2021 19:30, Yasminl52899

Meaty, a meat packaging firm, to evaluate their facility use. Recently, Meaty upgraded their equipment, which has allowed for an increase in the production per employee. Currently, Meaty uses 5 divisions and each division can have two shifts to meet the 2500 tons of production per month. If a division is open, then the company must pay $140,000 a month in electricity, cleaning, maintenance and management costs. In addition, each shift is used costs$30,000 a month. Thus, if a division is open and both shifts are running, then the company has to pay $140,000+2 shift closings *$30,000 = $200,000. If only one shift is open, then the cost is $170,000.Table 1 provides the cost of an employee in each shift, the amount of meat produced by a single employee and the maximum number of employees that can be used per shift. Due to the capabilities of each division and the type of meat that it is capable of producing, the following departmental constraints must be met. Division 1 must have moreemployees than division 4.At least 3 divisionsmust be open. If division4 is closed, then division3 must also be closed. At least 2 of the first 3 divisionsmust be opened. Currently Meatco is spending approximately 2.7 million dollars to meet their demand. As is typical for you company prepare a 1 page summary and a technical report. Technical note, there are so many employees that you can effectively eliminate the integer constraints on the number of employees. Table1 Division1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5 Shift Day Evening Day Evening Day Evening Day Evening Day EveningMax num Employ 120 100 150 120 180 150 100 75 300 250Cost Per Employ 2000 2200 2100 2300 1900 2200 2000 2100 2200 2400Lbs/Employee(tons) 3 3 2.9 2.9 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2

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