Operations Management
Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine: The meaning and importance of model.

Introduction: Model is a physical representation of an object that shows what it looks like and how it works. The model is usually smaller than the objet it represents. For example, an architect constructs a model of a wooden house.

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