The following jobs are waiting for processing at a work center. There are 7 hours in each productive day. It is currently the start of day 211. The due days are all when the jobs are due by the end of the day they are due, and the jobs are listed in the order they arrived at the work center. The work center uses a due date priority system, with first come, first serve to break “ties.”
a. Use vertical loading to load the jobs, assuming infinite capacity. What possible problems/issues do you see and how would you resolve them? b. Now load the jobs assuming finite capacity. Again, what problems do you see and how would you resolve them?