Bastos Manufacturing owns 10 identical machines that produce colored nylon thread for the textile industry. Machine brea

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Bastos Manufacturing owns 10 identical machines that produce colored nylon thread for the textile industry. Machine brea

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Bastos Manufacturing Owns 10 Identical Machines That Produce Colored Nylon Thread For The Textile Industry Machine Brea 1
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Bastos Manufacturing owns 10 identical machines that produce colored nylon thread for the textile industry. Machine breakdowns follow a Poisson distribution with an average of 0.01 breakdowns per operating hour per machine. The company employs one technician to fix these machines. Service times to repair the machines are exponentially distributed with an average of 8 hours per repair. The company loses $100 each hour a machine is down. Management wants to analyze the impact of adding one or two service technicians on the average time to fix a machine. Service technicians are paid $20 per hour. The queuing statistics is shown below. All time units in this table are measured in hours. S 1 2 3 0.6780 1.52439 0.84634 $172.44 L $121.12 La 0.2467 0.74758 0.00739 8.07989 $111.34 $152.44 W 0.3676 0.81120 0.07610 8.82816 0.82816 0.45175 0.18685 O $120.00 Determine the minimum total hourly cost to the company? Wa Po 17.98565 9.98565 0.32195 0.67805 Pw 0.07989 0.46232 0.03468
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