Category Archives: Production Operations

Queue Management in Retail / Grocery – YouTube

How Italians manage queues – YouTube

Electronic Queue Sysytem– how it works – YouTube

New Research on the Theory of Waiting Lines (Queues), Including the Psychology of Queuing – YouTube

VatorNews – QLess – line management that’s worth a look

This resource on 3-D printing shows us some of the things that can be done.

3ders.org – 83 year-old woman got 3D printed mandible | 3D Printing news

And thanks to my student Chris Dover, we have this story about a woman who had a 3-D printed jaw implant.

Elderly woman has lower jaw replaced with 3D printed titanium implant | Geek.com

It’s a paradigm shifting technology.

More about 3D Printing. Some nice shots  of it actually at work.  This bshows a bit of the potential, and also Lisa discusses how it might change production processes in the future– one of those paradigm breaking improvements we are discussing.

Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing | Video on TED.com