2/ TLDR: every process has some fundamental limiting constraint, and you should organize things to conserve and optimize against this constraint, and no other, to achieve maximum throughput. If the Oregon USPS plant is maximally constrained by loading dock access >
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3/ ...then one truck remaining parked for 60 minutes while the last three boxes are loaded onto it, but which thereby prevents three other trucks from each arriving, getting loaded, and departing, in that slot, then HELL YES, that one truck should GTFO.
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4/ Extend this further: if that one truck pulls up, and NOTHING is ready to be loaded onto it, then at the end of its 20 minute window, it should GTFO and pull away empty, rather than wait. It can go to the back of the line so that other trucks can be loaded, while its cargo >
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5/ is prepped in parallel. The fact that
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6/ It's like I've landed in "The Planet of the Apes," and I have to teach people to wipe themselves after they shit. - Ted Nugent
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My team has been having a variant of this argument with a server team for three years.
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Quibble: Operations Research is something of an old term. Still descriptive, but if you're doing searches these days often a better phrase is management science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_science … .. (But most people in my elderly generation are more familiar with the OR phrase.)
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(Back in the 1980's the Operations Research class I took in economics was kind of a one-off course taught by a teacher who wanted to teach it. ~Very~ mathematical. The Management Science class in an MBA program covered a wide variety of applications, less math intensive.)
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