One of your first decisions for any new process project is whether to go batch or continuous. You may not realize it, but batch versus continuous is also a decision you make virtually every day in your personal and office life.

For example, do you check e-mails as they come in and deal with each right away? Or do you batch e-mails up and deal with a bunch of them at one time.

Do you rinse each dish and put it in the washer right after you use it? Or do you let lots of dishes pile up in the sink before you put them in the washer in a batch?

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I am going to discuss how end users are setting themself up for failure or delayed success in implementing manufacturing operations management systems. It starts by not recognizing and realizing that a plant's capacity should not be based on head count or limited by the labor resource. The mistake that most (not all) manufacturers are making right now is attempting to optimize their plants either through continuous improvement methods or manufac...

"The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's." The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from 161 AD to 180 AD) was perhaps the only true philosopher-king in the history of the world. He formulated his pantheist Stoic beliefs with a passionate religious conviction. He shared the basic Stoic belief in the divinity of the cosmos as an intelligent being with a soul and stressed (perhaps too fatalistically) the harmony of all things (or lack thereof)and the importance of resig...