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Operational Research (O.R.) case studies

Operational Research (O.R.) case studies. What’s the problem?. www.LearnAboutOR.com. You are a property developer…. You are renovating a house There are various tasks that this involves Which will each take a different time to complete. www.LearnAboutOR.com.

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Operational Research (O.R.) case studies

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  1. Operational Research (O.R.) case studies

  2. What’s the problem? www.LearnAboutOR.com

  3. You are a property developer… You are renovating a house There are various tasks that this involves Which will each take a different time to complete www.LearnAboutOR.com

  4. Some tasks have to be finished before others can begin You want to complete the renovation as quickly as possible www.LearnAboutOR.com

  5. Is it possible to complete the project before your deadline? In what order should you do the activities to complete the project as early as possible? And how many workers will you need and how will you assign them activities? www.LearnAboutOR.com

  6. What do we need to know? What needs to be done? And how long do those activities take to do? www.LearnAboutOR.com

  7. Something like this… www.LearnAboutOR.com

  8. We also need to know which activities depend on each other Then we are ready to consider how to manage the project www.LearnAboutOR.com

  9. Let’s summarise the problem We need to plan a project involving several activities of different lengths Some of these activities depend on the completion of others www.LearnAboutOR.com

  10. We want to plan the order of activities that will finish the project in the shortest possible time www.LearnAboutOR.com

  11. This is an example of Critical Path Analysis www.LearnAboutOR.com

  12. Other examples where this might be used Businesses, hospitals, schools (in fact anywhere where complex projects take place) www.LearnAboutOR.com

  13. What next? Over the next few lessons, we will look at ways of approaching problems of this type… www.LearnAboutOR.com

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