The Ace Manufacturing Company has orders for three similar products:
Three machines are available for the manufacturing operations. All three machines can produce all the products at the same production rate. However, due
to varying defect percentages of each product on each machine, the unit costs of the products vary depending on the machine used. Machine capacities for
the next week and the unit costs are as follows:
Use the transportation model to develop the minimum cost production schedule for the products and machines. Show the linear programming formulation.
Solution:
LHS RHS
Data
Minimiz
Machine A B C Capacity cost
e
1 1 1.2 0.9 1500 s.t.
x11+x12+x13<=150
2 1.3 1.4 1.2 1500 0
x21+x22+x23<=150
3 1.1 1 1.2 1000 0
Orders 2000 500 1200 x31+x32+x33<=100
0
x11+x21+x31=2000
Model x12+x22+x32=500
j=1 j=2 j=3 Capacity x13+x23+x33=1200
Machine,
1500
i=1 300 0 1200
Machine,
1500
i=2 1200 0 0
Machine,
1000
i=3 500 500 0
Orders 2000 500 1200
Objective 3990
Subject to LHS RHS
x11+x12+x13<=150
1500 1500
<= 0
x21+x22+x23<=150
1200 1500
<= 0
x31+x32+x33<=100
1000 1000
<= 0
2000 = 2000 x11+x21+x31=2000
500 = 500 x12+x22+x32=500
1200 = 1200 x13+x23+x33=1200