Question 15.EX.3: GANTT SCHEDULING CHART. First Printing in Winter Park, Flori...

GANTT SCHEDULING CHART. First Printing in Winter Park, Florida, wants to use a Gantt chart to show the scheduling of three orders, jobs A, B, and C.
APPROACH \blacktriangleright In Figure 15.4, each pair of brackets on the time axis denotes the estimated starting and finishing of a job enclosed within it. The solid bars reflect the actual status or progress of the job. We are just finishing day 5.

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SOLUTION \blacktriangleright See Figure 15.4.

INSIGHT \blacktriangleright Figure 15.4 illustrates that job A is about a half-day behind schedule at the end of day 5. Job B was completed after equipment maintenance. We also see that job C is ahead of schedule.
LEARNING EXERCISE \blacktriangleright Redraw the Gantt chart to show that job A is a half-day ahead of schedule. [Answer: The orangish bar now extends all the way to the end of the activity.]
RELATED PROBLEMS \blacktriangleright 15.1a, 15.2

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