1. The emergency room at a hospital estimates the following requirements for registered nurses (RNs) for the last night shift each week: Sunday-3; Monday-4; Tuesday-2; Wednesday-2; Thursday-3; Friday-6; Saturday-4. Nurses work four consecutive days, then have off three days. Perform cyclical scheduling on the data. (Note that you must identify three-day patterns of minimum requirements.) How many RNs are required? How much extra capacity is required?

2. Compare, in your own words, short-term scheduling at process-focused, repetitive, and product-focused facilities.

3. High reliability can be achieved in a product without having high reliability in the component parts. In fact, any reliability target, no matter how high, can be achieved with only mediocre parts, so long as enough of them are present." Explain why this is the case. An example may help with your explanation.

4. What are the goals, advantages, and disadvantages of JIT partnerships?

You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.