OM Podcast #5: NASCAR Pit Stops

Welcome to our latest Operations Management podcast! Today, Jay Heizer and Barry Render discuss the OM side of NASCAR racing pitstops in this 9-minute recording. Chapter 10 of the text opens with a Global Company Profile featuring NASCAR. Racing teams’ use of time and motion studies are great examples of operational efficiency. In the podcast, Jay and Barry also describe how Formula One racing approaches to pit stops have helped a hospital and a pharma manufacturer.

 

Transcript

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Instructors, assignable auto-graded exercises using this podcast are available in MyLab OM.  Contact your Pearson rep to learn more!  https://www.pearson.com/us/contact-us/find-your-rep.html