Application of Operations Management

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Multiple Choice

Application of Operations Management
Leeann has been hired as an intern at BNR, a small custom embroidery and design business. She is amazed at the many uses her manager has found for technology. She is able to draft customer designs using software, and her manager has even told her about machines that can act and see like human beings. The embroidery machines are so sophisticated that in order to change from one product to another, all that she has to do is change the computer program. BNR sells many of its products over the Internet so there is no intermediary.
-The machines that Leeann's manager has told her about, which can act and see like human beings and are able to perform complex operations, are termed

• A)robotics.
• B)kanban.
• C)technology investment.
• D)e- manufacturing.

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Definitions:

Sympathy Strikes

Labor strikes initiated by workers in one company or industry in support of workers in another organization or sector who are already on strike.

Collective Bargaining

The process by which workers, through their unions, negotiate contracts with their employers to determine terms of employment, including wages, hours, and working conditions.

Mass Migration

The movement of large numbers of people from one geographical area to another, often across international borders.

NAALC

The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, a supplementary agreement to NAFTA aimed at improving labor standards and working conditions in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.