In the text and the lecture-two types of workstations

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In the text and the lecture, two types of workstations are covered at the Briar Patch Manufacturing company. One machine the Tortoise 2000 had frequent but short outages while the other machine the Hare X19 machine had rather infrequent outages, but quite long. How would you convince your production manager that according to the Factory Physics' analysis the machine with the frequent but short outages is preferable to the one with infrequent but long outages, provided the availabilities are the same? Obviously, the production manager wants to run the machine as long as possible. Is he/she right or wrong and how do you handle if you are the maintenance engineer? Then, based on your discussions, research the topic further, add your citations and put into your Word file for the dropbox submitta

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