Hands-on is a company that features a product line of winter gloves for the entire family
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Hands-on is a company that features a product line of winter gloves for the entire family

3.  Hands-on is a company that features a product line of winter gloves for the entire family— men, women, and children.  They want to decide what mix of these three types of gloves to produce.  

The Hands-on’s manufacturing labor force is unionized.  Each full-time employee works a 40-hour week.  In addition, by union contract, the number of full-time employees can never drop below 20.  Nonunion, part-time workers also can be hired with the following union-imposed restrictions:

(1) Each part-time worker works 20 hours per week, and;  

(2) There must be at least two full-time employees for each part-time employee.

In terms of the manufacturing process, all three types of gloves are made out of the same 100 percent genuine cowhide leather.  Hands-on has a long-term contract with a supplier of the leather and  receives a 5,000 square-foot shipment of material each week.  The material requirements and labor requirements, along with the gross profit per glove sold (Not considering labor costs), are given in the following table below:

 

Glove

Material Required

(Square Feet)

Labor Required

(Minutes)

Gross Profit

(per pair of gloves)

Men’s

2

30

$8

Women’s

1.5

45

10

Children’s

1

40

6

Each full-time employee earns $13 per hour, while each part-time employee earns $10 per hour.  Management wishes to know what mix of each of the three types of gloves to produce per week, as well as how many full-time and part-time workers to employ while they would like to maximize their net profit—their gross profit from sales minus their labor costs.
Formulate a linear programming model to determine the best mix of gloves and employees to have to maxmize their net profit.
(DO NOT attempt to solve.)  Briefly identify/describe each decision variable, constraint and objective function. 
Hint
Statistics"LP i.e. Linear programming is also known as linear optimization. It is a method to achieve the best outcome like maximum profit or lowest cost, in a mathematical model where the requirements are represented by the linear relationships. These linear programming models involves :1. activities denoted by j, there are n activities.2. resources denoted by i, there are m resources.3. per...

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