operations (servers, housekeepers, porters, kitchen workers, bartenders, etc.), management, marketing, and human resources.
Usage rate is an important variable for the hospitality industry. Just as a factory owner would wish to have his or her productive asset in use as much as possible (as opposed to having to pay fixed costs while the factory isn't producing), so do restaurants, hotels, and
3D printing
3D printing or additive manufacturing (AM) refers to any of the various processes for printing a three-dimensional object. Primarily additive processes are used, in which successive layers of material are laid down under computer control. These objects can be of almost any shape or geometry, and are produced from a 3D model or other electronic data source.
Basic principles
If the
1. Introduction
"Relationships with customers and suppliers allow us to know what we must be able to supply in real time and then very quickly and precisely meet that demand while maintaining low inventory."
(Dave Schneider, engineering manager of Dell)
As of July 2002, Dell Computer Corporation (Dell) was the world’s largest direct selling computer company, with 34,800 employees in more tha
generally include the fluid properties of density and viscosity, plus a velocity and a characteristic length or characteristic dimension. This dimension is a matter of convention - for example a radius or diameter are equally valid for spheres or circles, but one is chosen by convention. For aircraft or ships, the length or width can be used. For flow in a pipe or a sphere moving in a fluid the i
Mr. Ebbers was not interested in business details, operations, and fundamentals, preferring only the deal.
When he got involved in operations, he was more like a small business person.
WorldCom didn’t have a good management team.
“WorldCom wasn’t operated at all, it was just on auto pilot, using bubble gum an Band-Aids as solutions to its problems.”
The billing system for W