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9.4.5 R9. Operating Room Scheduling - Video 4 The Solution

Okay, so solving successfully finished, and we've got the results. If you had any trouble solving this problem, then you should go into Options in the Solver and select that you want to edit the length of solution time and increase it past 100 seconds. The LibreOffice Solver is not incredibly powerful, so it may need more time to find the solution. We do recommend that if you have access to Excel, that you use Excel instead for integer optimization problems, because Excel is a little bit better with integer optimization. However, you probably got the solution just fine. So you'll want to go ahead and click Keep Result. So now, we can take a look at our solution. So we've got the objective of 4.46. This is not particularly interpretable, until you remember that what our objective is, is the total of all departments percent of target allocation hours reached. So the best possible number that we could get here would be 5, if every department had 100% of their tar...