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Tools and techniques of operations management
Capacity planning
Capacity planning aims to balance customer demand with
production.
Three possible approaches
Chase demand plan Demand management
Level capacity plan planning
– maintains – matches
production production with – attempts to
capacity at a demand. influence demand
constant rate Requires a to smooth
flexible variations above
approach to or below capacity
production
Illustrations and further practice
Now try TYU 1 from Chapter 9.
Read illustration 1 from Chapter 9.
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