APPLIED OPERATIONAL RESEARCH FOR MANAGEMENT NOTES 1 ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR PROGRAMMING (LP) INTRODUCTION Operations Research (OR) (a term coined by McClosky and Trefthen in 1940) was a technique that evolved during World War II to effectively use the limited military resources and yet achieve the best possible results in military operations. In essence you can state that OR is a technique that helps achieve best (optimum) results under the given set of limited
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Therefore‚ the operational strategy has direct implications on the process flow‚ the output‚ the human resource management and the bottom line of each company. McDonald’s uses a batch process to cook hamburgers (Exhibit A). Using a batch process means that the speed of delivery is dependent upon the speed and experience of the individual worker. Hamburgers are cooked on a large platen‚ in batches of up to twelve. Two or more batches may be on the platen at one time‚ in various stages of cooking. This
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placed in a cube and allowed to dry forming the concrete testing cube. Each of the four blocks containing different compositions of each material were then placed in a compressive testing machine and when each cube yielded‚ results were taken. Effect of water content on workability of fresh concrete: As more water was added to the dry mixture‚ it became easier to work with but we had to be careful not to add to much water or this would weaken the concrete and possible ruin the mixture. If you wanted
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Concrete Jungle where dreams are made of… New York City is the most popular city of the State of New York and the United States of America‚ the second largest city on the continent. Is the center of metropolitan New York‚ which is among the largest urban agglomerations in the world‚ for over a century has been one of the world’s leading centers of commerce and finance‚ New York is considered a global city because of its global influences in media‚ politics‚ education‚ entertainment and fashion
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Writing the Four Stages Stage 1 - Concrete Experience There’s an old proverb that says ‘experience is what you get after the fact’. Keep this in mind as you write your Concrete Experience because it is an experience you’ve had which you need to document. ‘Documenting’ is also used purposefully because it sums up the Stage 1 requirement. Stage 1 is the feeling stage. Aside from the fear this prompts for the rationalists amongst us the main difficulty with documenting the Concrete Experience is
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Procedure for mixing concrete 1. Weigh out the designed proportions for a 1.6 cubic foot batch of concrete. a. Divide the water into two buckets‚ one with about 3/4 of the water. If using air entraining‚ put the air entraining agent in the 3/4 water bucket. 2. Put about half the coarse aggregate‚ half the fine aggregate and the 3/4 bucket of water with air entraining in the mixer. 3. Start the mixer and mix until the aggregate is thoroughly wet 4. Carefully add all the cement with the mixer
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7166M01.qxd_lb 6/3/09 09:38 AM Page 1 1 BASIC CONCEPTS 1.1 INTRODUCTION Concrete is strong in compression‚ but weak in tension: its tensile strength varies from 8 to 14 percent of its compressive strength. Due to such a low tensile capacity‚ flexural cracks develop at early stages of loading. In order to reduce or prevent such cracks from developing‚ a concentric or eccentric force is imposed in the longitudinal direction of the structural element. This force prevents the cracks
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a lot of concrete and descriptive language in his work. Langston Hughes’s essay “Salvation” uses detailed descriptions to impact the reader. Description is “a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species” (“description”). Authors use concrete language to influence readers. Concrete language is “based off the five senses which are hearing taste‚ sight‚ touch‚ and smell” (“Concrete”). Hughes
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Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man: The Concrete Mixer Imperialism Ray Bradbury’s “The Concrete Mixer‚” tells the story of a Martian named Ettil‚ who refuses to invade Earth on the theory that the people of Earth have greater morale than the people of Mars. Ettil had feared that his people were doomed to the same fate as the people in his books: whom at the end of every story were conquered by Earth. When the Martians’ arrive to Earth nothing is as any of them thought it would be. They had been
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Alliance Concrete Executive Summary The economy in which the read-mix industry operates may have a potential slowdown. Despite Alliance’s success and potential growth‚ the company is facing with a difficult decision to choose between renegotiating debt obligations‚ postponing long overdue capital improvement‚ or reducing the dividend payment to National. Being a ready-mix concrete company‚ Alliance’s obligation is to have their product deliver to the customers on time. However‚ the main issue
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