Part I: Identifying Constraints Each short scenario describes a business situati
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Part I: Identifying Constraints Each short scenario describes a business situation. For each scenario, please write a short paragraph explaining which constraint or constraints is/are present, and why. 1. A taxi company limits its drivers to one eight-hour shift per day, with one half-hour break for a meal. A taxi cannot carry more than three passengers, all in the back seat, and cannot combine stops; that is, all the passengers must be going to the same destination. for approval. There are no exceptions to this rule, which creates delays. supposedly limited to one topic, or set of related topics. Faculty members find it difficult to create 2. Acme Unlimited sells custom machine tools. The sales department must send each order to Engineering 3. An online university offers six-week terms, with three two-week modules per term. Each module is interesting courses, and students express frustration with their learning experiences.Explanation / Answer
The constraints include work time for driver is equal to eight hour per day .a driver can take less than or equal to half hour for meal. a taxi can carry less than or equal to three passengers at a time reaching the same destination Each machine tool needs to be approved by engineering department be being sold, engineering department are not required to make any sort of delays in aooriving The problem of uninteresting courses and frustrated students is due to the constraints that one term needs to be finished in six weeks. Each module takes 2 weeks to complete so there can be only 3 modules which can be covered. This constraint of 2 weeks allows only one topic that can be covered.