Now, we want to see if we can design a process that operates…
Now, we want to see if we can design a process that operates with 5 employees instead of 7 (since there are 7 activities, some of the employees will perform more than 1 activity). We want to assign the activities in such a way that if an employee is in charge of more than one activity, these activities are adjacent (e.g., an employee can be assigned activities 1 and 2 but not 1 and 3). Moreover, realizing there might be setup costs involved with switching from one activity to another, we want to assign at most two activities to each employee.