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Operations Management, 8/e

William J. Stevenson

ISBN: 0072869054
Copyright year: 2005

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The Stevenson Student DVD – included in Stevenson
Operations Management 8e
Copyright 2005 McGraw-Hill/Irwin

This DVD includes over 3 hours of professionally developed video, in 75 clips and 6 full length 10 to 12 minute programs, featuring companies such as United Airlines, Honda, Disney, McDonalds, Hillerich and Bradsby, Caterpillar, Navistar, and many more.

It also includes student study support resources such chapter outlines, quizzes, web links, PowerPoint lecture files, data files, Excel templates, and new screencam tutorials.

Students can access all of this rich content on computers equipped with DVD-ROM drives, or they can use their DVD players, X boxes or Playstations to see full length videos. (All the computer-only resources are also available on the free text web site--the Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/stevenson8e )

The DVD is self booting and no installation procedures are necessary. All resources can be selected for use by content type (“asset”):

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Or by choosing a chapter and selecting from those items within the chapter view:

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Excel Resources
include over 70 templates all arranged in chapter files:

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Students can use these for solving problems, or for studying the dynamics of a particular concept with the “spinner” buttons and variable options.

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In addition, the new Screencam tutorials provide students with a personal expert narrated “movie” on how to use the Excel templates, how to use Excel Solver for Linear Programming and more. Your students will have their own personal professional tutor available and ready to help, one click away:

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To see for yourself, click on each link below. The tutorial will launch in a new web browser window.

Screencam Tutorial: Using the Excel Templates (1732.0K)
Screencam Tutorial: Linear Programming (2668.0K)



Video Resources include 6 full length segments, over 70 minutes, featuring

•  Plant tour of the Hillerich and Bradsby–Louisville Slugger aluminum bat plant in California

•  Quality at Honda of America's Ohio plants

•  Queueing featuring the call center at the National Association of Realtors and Apropos

•  Process System Improvement at Gortrac

•  Project Management-building the Alton Super Bridge

•  Robotics and Technology featuring Genesis Group

All of these can be accessed and viewed with any kind of DVD player.

By chapter, over 75 short clips are included, covering manufacturing and services topics in depth. These clips are selected from the MHI video library.

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For Example

(Click on each link below. These are .avi files which will launch whatever media player is installed on your PC.)

Video Clip: Process Analysis - Gortrac (1834.0K)
Video Clip: Prioritization at NAR (1539.0K)


Students will benefit from the following available Study Tools:

Self-Grading Interactive Quizzes

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Study Outlines

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PowerPoint Lecture Reviews

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and web links to companies and other web-based Operations Management resources

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