Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 64 views

    OR6 Odt

    Uploaded by

    Wajini Lakshika
    The Metalco Company wants to blend a new alloy that is 40% tin, 35% zinc, and 25% lead from 5 available alloys that have different compositions and costs per unit. The objective is to determine the proportions of each alloy to use to produce the new alloy at minimum cost. This can be modeled as a linear programming problem with the objective of maximizing the total value by choosing the best combination of alloys to meet the composition requirements, while minimizing costs. The decision variables are the amounts of each alloy to use, and the constraints ensure the alloy composition amounts are met.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as ODT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    OR6 Odt

    Uploaded by

    Wajini Lakshika
    64 views2 pages
    The Metalco Company wants to blend a new alloy that is 40% tin, 35% zinc, and 25% lead from 5 available alloys that have different compositions and costs per unit. The objective is to determine the proportions of each alloy to use to produce the new alloy at minimum cost. This can be modeled as a linear programming problem with the objective of maximizing the total value by choosing the best combination of alloys to meet the composition requirements, while minimizing costs. The decision variables are the amounts of each alloy to use, and the constraints ensure the alloy composition amounts are met.

    Original Title

    OR6.odt

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    ODT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The Metalco Company wants to blend a new alloy that is 40% tin, 35% zinc, and 25% lead from 5 available alloys that have different compositions and costs per unit. The objective is to determine the proportions of each alloy to use to produce the new alloy at minimum cost. This can be modeled as a linear programming problem with the objective of maximizing the total value by choosing the best combination of alloys to meet the composition requirements, while minimizing costs. The decision variables are the amounts of each alloy to use, and the constraints ensure the alloy composition amounts are met.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as ODT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as odt, pdf, or txt
    64 views2 pages

    OR6 Odt

    Uploaded by

    Wajini Lakshika
    The Metalco Company wants to blend a new alloy that is 40% tin, 35% zinc, and 25% lead from 5 available alloys that have different compositions and costs per unit. The objective is to determine the proportions of each alloy to use to produce the new alloy at minimum cost. This can be modeled as a linear programming problem with the objective of maximizing the total value by choosing the best combination of alloys to meet the composition requirements, while minimizing costs. The decision variables are the amounts of each alloy to use, and the constraints ensure the alloy composition amounts are met.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as ODT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as odt, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 2

    1.

    The Metalco Company desires to blend a new alloy of 40 percent tin, 35 percent zinc, and 25 percent
    lead from several available alloys having the following properties:

    The objective is to determine the proportions of these alloys that should be blended to produce the new
    alloy at a minimum cost.

    Formulate the linear programming model for this problem.

    Solution:

    Decision variable:

    X1 = Alloy1 , X2 = Alloy2 , X3 = Alloy3 , X4 = Alloy4 , X5 = Alloy5

    Objective function:

    Maximize

    Z = $22X1 + $20X2 + $25X3 + $24X4 + $27X5

    Subject to:

    60X1 + 25X2 + 45X3 + 20X4 + 50X5 = 40

    10X1 + 15X2 + 45X3 + 50X4 + 40X5 = 35

    30X1 + 60X2 + 10X3 + 30X4 + 10X5 = 25

    X1 >= 0 , X2 >= 0 , X3 >= 0 , X4 >= 0 , X5 >= 0

    2. A manufacturing company has contracted to deliver home windows over the next 6 months. The
    demands for each month are 100, 250, 190, 140, 220 and 110 units, respectively. Production cost per
    window varies from month to month depending on the cost of labour, material, and utilities. The
    company estimates the production cost per window over the next 6 months to be $ 50, $ 45, $ 55, $ 48,
    $ 52, and $ 50, respectively. To take advantage of the fluctuations in manufacturing cost, the company
    may elect to produce more than is needed in a given month and hold the excess units for delivery in
    later months. This, however, will incur storage costs at the rate of $ 8 per window per month assessed
    on end of month inventory. Determine the optimum production schedule by using Excel Solver.

    You might also like