Six processes are to be laid out in six areas along a long corridor at Rita Gibson

Accounting Services in Daytona Beach. The distance between adjacent work

centers is 40 feet. The number of trips between work centers is given in the

following table:

a) Assign the processes to the work areas in a way that minimizes the total

flow, using a method that places processes with the highest flow adjacent to

each other.

b) What assignment minimizes the total traffic flow?