WHAT CAN O.R. DO FOR YOU?

Success Stories

We've put together a library of dozens of brief O.R. cases for you to browse or search by industry, functional area, or benefit.

A few examples of the value you’ll find:

• The dental profession used O.R. to improve its workforce planning, to ensure that particular anticipated needs were met by appropriately qualified staff numbers.
• A regional bakers used O.R. to identify redundant effort in data collection and to provide a solution as to how the existing shop floor communications could be improved
• Ford used O.R. to optimise the way it designs and tests vehicle prototypes, saving well over £150 million.
• A hospital called in O.R. consultants to reduce outpatient waiting times. Using a simulation model, the O.R. team developed a new system that cut waiting times by as much as 50%
• The Department of Health used O.R. for strategic and scenario planning work that led to the creation of NHS Direct. They followed up this work with computer modelling to assist in designing the helpline call centre network.

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