“Acceptimization”: A Problem of Translation for Management

Roger N. Millen
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Roger N. Millen: Engineering Administration Department, The George Washington University, Washington, D. C. 20052

Interfaces, 1976, vol. 7, issue 1, 110-111

Abstract: A machine shop falls victim to the exacting analysis of an “operations researcher”; the results of the research indicate that the small company must drop several of the items currently being produced and sold. “There are more catalog items than constraints”, the O.R. type explains, “If you only had more constraints on your production!” The manager's response to the thought of seeking to identify more constraints than already existed is omitted in the interests of good taste.A manufacturer of injection-molded dinnerware allowed a group of graduate students in industrial engineering to do a study of their production-inventory system. One of the results was a series of recommendations relating to economic lot size production runs for the various items being produced.

Date: 1976
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