well the what is
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operational resection in a nutshell operational research is the discipline
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of applying appropriate analytical methods
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to help make better decisions EM
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loony in today's world
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operational research is all around us all our
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they can be found in just about everything we do the
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it forms the building blocks from everyday world
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from buying a fright to queueing probably compressors
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that help save lives it drives business and governments have been interested
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integrity demanding a political party without a lot of
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the modern world we take for granted wouldn't exist
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there's never been a better time to be in operational research and today most
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organizations have a massive database
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the ways we communicate a fast computers is sophisticated and reliable
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and the business world is now investing heavily including operations research
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at the central what they do a this is not maths in theory
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but maps in the real world making a real difference
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the
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the
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go
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the
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this
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never before have so many people all products needed to be moved around the
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world
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as passengers and consumers we expect everything
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to run smoothly whether we're buying flights
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commuting to work all wanting food readily available at the supermarket
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the businesses moving people and products around can be a complicated
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an expensive matter here at British Airways
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getting the numbers right can make passengers more satisfied with the
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service
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and millions of pounds with the difference to the business
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British Airways turnover his over
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eight billion pound each year day the number of operations we have
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each day easy to the city's several hundred and
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is a very complex logistical exercise getting a lot
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together
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do
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operational research gets involved in the whole range of decisions
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PA starting with the whole booking process
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led by along is involved in helping to set the prices
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I'm same said the the availability due to the
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it just takes on the day a law has a massive part to play
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in the whole range decisions as with all Airlines British Airways staff have to
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be rusted
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to take into account things like number of hours they worked a shift
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minimum rest periods between flights breaks at home
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but they also need to make sure crew spend as much time as possible
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working in the air I think elisa
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Publius create a hand first fold get the opportunity to people's a whole
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different range
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the specs one airline hold a major problems so one day you can be looking
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at some this very short tempered tactical
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and here next to the next week between the piece in its strategic in 20 years
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and
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so is incredibly varied and Israel including the stimulus
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the it boo
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the
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operational research is often at the heart of love makes a business run
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efficiently
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fear everything planned and time precisely
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to avoid bottlenecks
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this tale runs cramp pains here in dollar Blackburn
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the
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they're one of the UK's leading paint makers the
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we have politically people's lives the when I paint products but
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the brightens up our homes now what places
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the give you the press in your house tomorrow the probably find
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term that there's a good chance that you love you some the polos that's a
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to reproduce it on the site down here there are literally hundreds of
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different colors may
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well over a hundred varieties a paint
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so knowing what colors go where and how many of each variety is needed
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is crucial to the success of the business all of them on
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to help us with building a model for fun to simulation model of the plant
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that allows us to understand better the complex the one to break down a complex
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problem
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to make it better visual until I was to be able to
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compare the real world wave information that we're able to draw out a model
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the model itself but some was applied to the beach again
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it allows us to visualize exactly what the problems are
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it's like them among the plan to chose all the time shows
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images shows the different regions in the Philly area the clock in the car
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owner is running through
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missus it it's it's a quelle you will see the process is actually start
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in the premix on the manufacturing area
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when we already have a batch running through into the plant
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and is going through each with filling line you be able to see the batches
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run-through
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step-by-step process until the filling line and the feelings are shown as
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running through into the where
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and as you can imagine the the humor variables
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and then this the whole system allows us to simplify it up
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visualize and understand really what's happened this piece a software
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an actual I was too shy to more efficiently it actually allows us to run
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the fund more efficiently here are you tired to people with health
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the skills they are them the equipment operational research is vital to our
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to all business that's that's critical in helping us to understand
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how we can improve how we could be more competitive in
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what are very competitive market
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the world of sport isn't an obvious place where operational research is at
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hand
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yet many of our much-loved activities rely on alarms
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and without it the games we know and love
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wouldn't be recognizable in cricket plan whether interrupts play
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I'll are calculates the fairest way of setting the run target
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if you're a football fan a large behind the stats that helps calculate the best
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player in each position
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whether designing a sports stadium or even an olympic village
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ally helps make the spectators experience much more enjoyable
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this is the magnificent Emirates Stadium
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in North London homer Arsenal FC
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here operational research has had a big part to play
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in the construction at the stadium as well as in the running at the site on
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match days
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just imagine a matched a situation
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d when you arrive at the station
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itself I lost us to feature immediately
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itself it off the train at people marshall you towards the stadium
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that part of the process is already go I'll are take into account trying to
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find the safest way for you to me
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then when you reach the stadium itself the number 10 starts for example have
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been determined by
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and I what techniques and then I should meet around the stadium the
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the papers where the signs are located on the way you meet your seat will also
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be
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10 by by different I like technique so it's really important to everything
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about this
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his status
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at the design of the stadium is always the magnificent it's a
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it's a 60,000 capacity stadium and without a simulation model if people
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moving in and out you'd never know whether during a match situation
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if there was a fight for example in phase people could be evacuated safely
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within the
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eight-minute guideline