1. How is capacity measured at your college or university?
2. Identify a business system you are familiar with. Does it ever suffer from too little capacity? What are the value implications when its demand is greater than its capacity?
3. In the system you identified in the previous question, what is its constraint? How could the capacity of the constraint be increased?
4. Students must manage their own capacity when demands on their time increase. What techniques do you use to match your personal capacity to the demands placed on it?
1. Identify a constraint in the process you interact with (Food service, lines at the recreation center, your favourite fast food restaurant). How would you exploit the constraint to improve system productivity?