Question

You manage a local machine shop and the owner of the company would like to understand a typical worker’s productivity. You have modeled worker productivity for assembling components, N, after h consecutive hours as follows:

?(h) = 100/1 + 10?^−0.7h

To maintain worker productivity, after how many hours of consecutive working should workers be given a break? Explain why? When you respond to the owner, you should include a graphical representation of worker productivity. Also, compare the number of components produced in an 8 hour day with a break in the day versus when a worker works for a continuous 8 hours without a break.

Answer 1