The Fifth Column---Two OR/MS Detective Stories: The Shrapneled Shed & The Disappearing Product

Gene Woolsey
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Gene Woolsey: Colorado School of Mines

Interfaces, 1979, vol. 9, issue 2-part-1, 8-12

Abstract: Two essays about the OR practice in industry. One is about organizational problems in a foundry on the level of interactions of production and quality control. The other essay is about an obvious imbalance of the amount of input and output in manufacturing a simple product and organizational problems that caused it.

Keywords: reliability: quality control; organizational studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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