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This assignment is intended to improve your understanding of the concepts presented in Chapter 16 of the textbook and to help you understand the application of these concepts to organizations.

Review the Lean Operations at Alaska Airlines Case Study at the end of Chapter 16 and view video case (Pearson MyOMLabs) and answer these three discussion questions…

  1. What are the key ingredients of Lean, as identified at Alaska Airlines?
  2. As an initial phase of a kaizen event, discuss the many ways passengers can be loaded and unloaded from airplanes.
  3. Document the research that is being done on the aircraft passenger-loading problem.