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Earlier on in this module I praised some work by Taylor and [foreign]. Both of them were passionate about going out to the front line to study an operation based on observation. As opposed to studying...

Increased product variety is a more frequent demand, more demand uncertainty and ultimately an increased mismatch between supply and demand. The major weapon against this mismatch is an increase in...

In the module of Customer Choice and Product Variety, we already introduced one tool that helps us tame the evil forces of variability. We introduced the concept of pooling. The purpose of this...

Do you know what I find is the biggest pain when you get sick? It's not the pain in your teeth, in your ear, or wherever you have your medical complications. The biggest pain is a pain of...

The size of a batch is not written in stone. The size of the batch is under the control of management. Maybe by being smart about the batch size, we can try to improve the process. We could...

Imagine two restaurants. The first one, is making cheeseburgers all day long. The second one is making cheeseburgers and veggie sandwiches. 50 Cheeseburgers. 50 veggie sandwiches. 50 Cheeseburgers. 50...

as process control is about measuring variation, detecting abnormal variation, and then reacting to it. In this session, we talk about Toyota Production System and how it deals with quality. We will...

Hola, Mi nombre es Angélica Gama, yo soy de Bogotá - Colombia. Esta lección es para la segunda semana del curso Introducción a la producción musical a través de Coursera.org Hoy estaré enseñando como...

So welcome to my Coursera course in Introduction to Operations Management. This is a 6-week long course, and today is the first session. What I thought we would do in this first session is, instead of...

I have used the first two sessions of this course to introduce the content of operations management. I would like to use this third session of this course to talk a little bit about the course...