Reference no: EM133682936
Question: Three new facilities are to be located relative to six existing facilities. The weighting factors are vjk = flow intensity between new machines and k, and wji = flow intensity between new machine j and existing machine i:
V12 = 1, V13 = 3, V23 = 2, ω11 = 4, ω12 = 2,
ω13 = 0, ω14 = 4, ω15 = 0, ω16 = 0, ω21 = 2,
ω22 = 0, ω23 = 93, ω24 = 92, ω25 = 82, ω26 = 82, ω31 = 0,
ω32 = 0, ω33 = 4, ω34 = 2, ω35 = 5, ω36 = 0
The coordinate locations of the existing facilities are P1 = (0, 10), P2 = (15, 0), P3 = (10, 25), P4 = (5, 15), P5 = (20, 20), and P6 = (25, 5).
a. Use the Excels SOLVER tool to solve the linear programming formulation of the minisum location problem assuming rectilinear distance.
b. Use the Excels SOLVER tool to solve the minisum multifacility rectilinear location problem.
c. Use the Excels SOLVER tool to solve the location problem assuming Euclidean distance.
d. Solve the multifacility gravity problem.