A Steel Manufacturing company has two production facilities that manufacture Dishwashers. Production costs at the two facilities differ because of varying labor costs, local property taxes, type of material used, volume, and so on

For Plant A, the weekly costs for producing a number of units of Dishwashers is expressed as a function

TCA(X) = X2 - 2X + 12000

where X is the weekly production volume and TCA(X) is the weekly cost for Plant A. Plant B’s weekly production costs are given by

TCB(Y) = Y2 + 8Y + 10000

where Y is the weekly production volume and TCB(Y) is the weekly cost for Plant B. The manufacturer would like to produce 50 dishwashers per week at the lowest possible cost.
a. Formulate a mathematical model that can be used to determine the optimal number of dishwashers to produce each week at each facility.
b. Solve the optimization model to determine the optimal number of dishwashers to produce at each facility.


a. If X is the weekly production volume at plant A and Y is the weekly production volume at plant B, then the optimization model is
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Min X2 - 2X + 12000 + Y2 + 8Y + 10000 s.t. X + Y = 50 X, Y ³ 0

b. The optimal solution is X = 27.5 and Y = 22.5 for an optimal cost of $23,388. These are all in thousands. The spreadsheet model is:

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