Application of Operations Management

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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:

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