| Article ID: | iaor19912165 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Start Page Number: | 30 |
| End Page Number: | 34 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1990 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Oakland John S., Sohal Amrik S. |
This article describes four incident case studies which have been used successfully for teaching production and operations management in the United Kingdom. The case studies described concern the production manager’s in-tray, plant layout, activity sampling, and statistical process control.