Volume-variety and design In Chapter 1 the four V’s of operations were described. These were volume‚ variety‚ variation and visibility. The first two of these – volume and variety – are particularly important when considering design issues in operations management. Not only do they usually go together (high variety usually means low volume‚ high volume normally means low variety) but together they also impact on the nature of products and services and processes which produce them. The volume and
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VISIBILITY Introduction 1. Aviation industry is full of accidents involving the loss of thousands of lives and economic loss worth billions of dollars. Critical analysis of the aviation accident revealed that nearly 90 percent of the accidents are due to the human factor. Explanation of the human factor is a long discussion and if analyzed is due to the error of judgment. A good judgment is only possible with adequate knowledge and it is only the correct understanding of these phenomenons which
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competitors’ offerings. D. There is less visibility to customers. E. There is no difference. 2. The process of dismantling and inspecting a competitor’s new or revised product for the purpose of gleaning design ideas is called: A. design by imitation B. product analysis C. reverse engineering D. benchmarking E. disassembly 3. Which of the following statements is NOT true of deductions from the product-process matrix: A. For a high volume-low variety system‚ it is better to have a dedicated
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math and I despise it. These are all examples of variation. Variation is a subject that affects our daily lives and decisions we make every single day. Each individual on planet Earth is different and to me that is what the definition of variation is. Because we are all different‚ grow up different‚ and all achieve different goals we are all going to make unique choices throughout our lifetimes. In the medical field we all want to keep variations to a minimum. I believe that implementing evidence
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Four V’s All business processes differ in some way from one another. There are certain common characteristics that they share. Volume: Does the business produce a few specialist items or is it producing lots of the same thing? High volumes of output indicate repeatability due to familiarity of the process. Specialized staffing and machinery may be evident to maximize efficiency of the operation. Economies of scale may be apparent in terms of price point entry to a market. They are doing the same
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SWATI SINGH‚ MIB 31‚ GRENOBLE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS A Critical Review of Brendan McSweeney‚ 2009‚ “Dynamic diversity: variety and variation within countries” Introduction Hofstede developed National cultures model (hereafter ‘the model’) to unable one to understand the National culture of any country‚ which he assumed enduring‚ pervasive and constitutive. Using the Hofstede’s
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The short story “Low Visibility” by Margaret Murphy is a fictional story‚ which deals with many topics‚ such as violence‚ love‚ hate‚ oppression‚ and right and wrong and the story is told by an uninstructed and omniscient 3. person narrator who tells the story as it unfolds. The plot takes off in medias res as we are thrown into a scene where Laura ’s husband John is watching television without any introduction. The structure in the story lets us jump a bit back and forth between two settings
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Low Visibility Many women experience violence in their relationships. Their fear keeps them from escaping‚ but fortunately‚ some women find a way out. Margaret Murphy’s short story “Low Visibility” gives us a realistic insight of how people can remold other people negatively‚ and yet even though they have reached the very bottom‚ hope can still bring them back their spirits and rights. “Low Visibility” portrays women being mistreated by their husbands‚ and how the women can be capable of escaping
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Low Visibility Laura is married to her husband John‚ a marriage where John is very dominating and John finds contentment by being violent towards Laura‚ and she is taking the violence lying down‚ she had resigned herself. Laura is only spoken when spoken to‚ and her relationship with John‚ most of all reminds of something that belongs to the past. “She wishes she could protest‚ but has forgotten how” This is a good example of how she cannot stand up for herself‚ but it also shows us that it not
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‘Low Visibility’ - Essay Many women experience violence in their relationships. Their fear keeps them from escaping‚ but fortunately‚ some women find a way out. Margaret Murphy’s short story “Low Visibility” gives us a realistic insight of how people can remold other people negatively‚ and yet even though they have reached the very bottom‚ hope can still bring them back their spirits and rights. Laura‚ who she is called‚ is married to her abusive husband John who is being violent. He likes to beat
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