From the book Operations Management by Barry Render, Jay Heizer. 11th or 10th edition:
1. What role can computerized management systems play in the maintenance and reliability functions? Does Frito Lay manufacturing plant offer any insights that can be duplicated at an automotive plant or at a microprocessor manufacturing unit such as at Intel or at Analog Micro Devices? Please answer with the help of examples that you are familiar with.
2. JIT,TPS,Lean Operations approaches orginated in the automotive sectors of Japan and yet they are being applied to the services sectors in the United States. Can you validate the adoptions at Arnold Palmer Hospital and Mutual Insurance Company of Iowa? Elimination Waste and reduction of Down Time were the original goals behind JIT. Government sector is full of waste. Why are these concepts not being aplied vigorously in the Public Sector?