Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:

You are strongly encouraged to find a problem from your own work, so that you may
apply to your work the concepts/tools that you learned from this course. If you choose to
find a problem from business articles/cases, you can find one from any
journals/newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek,
Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and so on. Or you can surf the Internet to find an
interesting article/case.
The OM concepts/tools that can be applied to your problem may include process
flowchart, theory of constraints, decisions trees, inventory models, six-sigma tools,
critical path method, MRP, scheduling, lean manufacturing, Kanban production control
method, forecasting methods, systematic layout planning, assembly line balancing,
factor rating system, centroid method, learning curves, simulation, waiting line models,
work measurement techniques, group technology, mass customization, etc