Jan 30 2021
Of Bubbles and Arrows
[The featured image is an ISOTYPE from Marie Neurath (1936)]
Maps of symbols connected by lines are the most common form of graphic communication about operations, next to bar charts, pie charts, and time series. The symbols may be a variety of pictograms and there may be different types of lines, including arrows, double-headed arrows with a variety of arrowheads, with dashed lines of varying thicknesses…
This is about what you can do with such maps beyond communicating, and the challenges of mapping systems that don’t fit on one slide. It is also about improving current practices.
Oct 22 2021
Introduction to Manufacturing: Textbook Authors Meet in Zürich
Torbjørn Netland and I met in person at ETH in Zurich on October 21-22 for the first time since 2019! In the meantime, we had met every week on Zoom, exchanged messages on Slack, and edited each other’s writings.
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By Michel Baudin • Announcements • 2 • Tags: industrial engineering, Operations Management, Textbook