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    This document discusses the importance of capacity planning for products and services. It addresses different types of capacity and their differences, key determinants of effective capacity, why capacity planning is critical for managers, how capacity planning can be developed in manufacturing sectors, why capacity planning is more challenging for services than goods production, different product and service types, and how capacity decisions influence productivity. It also provides short notes on bottleneck operations, constraint management, waiting lines, and key reasons for redesigning layouts.

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    CHAPTER FOUR

    STRATEGY CAPACITY PLANNING FOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

    1. Why capacity planning and decisions are important in operation and service management?
    Explain.

    2. What are the different types of capacity? How each capacity differs from each other?
    Explain with the help of suitable examples.

    3. What are the key determinants of effective capacity? Explain with suitable examples.

    4. Why is capacity planning one of the most critical decisions a manager has to make?
    Explain with the help of suitable examples.

    5. How capacity planning can be developed? Explain with the help of suitable examples in
    manufacturing sectors.

    6. Why is capacity planning for services more challenging than it is for goods production?
    Explain.

    7. What are the product and service types? Explain in brief.

    8. How do capacity decisions influence productivity? Explain.

    9. What are the different types of layout? Why is it significant in operation and service
    management? Explain.

    10. Short notes on:

    Bottleneck operation

    Constraint management

    Waiting lines

    Key reasons for redesign of layout

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