1. A 32,000-seat baseball stadium is used 17 times for games, concerts, and graduation ceremonies. Each event averages five hours and assumes the stadium is full for each event. The stadium is available 365 days a year from 7 am to midnight. (Notice: the focus is stadium “seat” utilization). a. What is stadium (seat) utilization using Equation 7.1 (pg 146)? (Show your calculations) b. If in the above scenario, the utilization was 75% during the 17 events, but there were 2 additional events that garnered 100% utilization, would this be an increase or decrease in overall utilization from the result in “a”? (Show calculations) c. As an Operations Manager how would you improve utilization at the stadium? Provide at least three optional improvement plans with details. EQUATION 7.1 is : UTILIZATION (U) = Resources used / resources avaliable  EQUATION 7.2 is: UTILIZATION (U) = Demand Rate / [Service Rate * Number of Servers]

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1. A 32,000-seat baseball stadium is used 17 times for games, concerts, and graduation ceremonies. Each event averages five hours and assumes the stadium is full for each event. The stadium is available 365 days a year from 7 am to midnight. (Notice: the focus is stadium “seat” utilization).

a. What is stadium (seat) utilization using Equation 7.1 (pg 146)? (Show your calculations)

b. If in the above scenario, the utilization was 75% during the 17 events, but there were 2 additional events that garnered 100% utilization, would this be an increase or decrease in overall utilization from the result in “a”? (Show calculations)

c. As an Operations Manager how would you improve utilization at the stadium? Provide at least three optional improvement plans with details.

EQUATION 7.1 is : UTILIZATION (U) = Resources used / resources avaliable 

EQUATION 7.2 is: UTILIZATION (U) = Demand Rate / [Service Rate * Number of Servers]

 

 

    

 

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