Shadowing Practice: What is Capacity Planning in Operations Management - Learn English Speaking with Video

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So, have you ever went shopping, let's say for a new apartment or a new house?
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and you actually purchased or decided to rent a new apartment or buy a house, you probably started capacity planning at some aspect.
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And in this sense, capacity planning is really just
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How you optimize space is very similar when we talk about manufacturing and capacity planning in that sense.
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You can't put a king size bed in a very small room.
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Right?
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Take a look at this floor plan, this floor model.
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If this is enough space for you, great.
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But if you put the wrong size furniture in this space, you're not utilizing your capacity well.
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It's just like the technologies that we have, computers and cell phones.
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They have limited bandwidth.
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And so does the organizations that produce products.
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So in this sense, capacity is simply the measure of an organization's ability to sustainably produce products based on customers' demand.
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goods and services based on customers' demand.
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How well can we produce?
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And this is going to be based on what we call our maximum
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throughput or our maximum rate of output which is called our throughput.
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So if we can only produce 100 units a day, and we're producing 100 units a day,
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we're operating at full capacity and at 100 % capacity utilization because that's our maximum rate of throughput.
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Now, what's driving that?
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It could be a number of things.
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However, we could have a bottleneck, right?
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And that bottleneck could be slowing down production in some aspect.
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Therefore, we have to improve that bottleneck in order to increase capacity.
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Now, there's another aspect we can look at, and that's called system capacity.
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So, system capacity is driven by the number of but we also consider the strongest and the weakest points within that system.
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This is where we begin to get into bottlenecks in specific departments
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that could be the reason that we have such low throughput or where our maximum output is at a specific rate.
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So in this case, your maximum output is going to be driven by the department
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with the slowest amount of time or the department with the least amount of output.
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Here's an example.
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Let's say you ran a sandwich shop.
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Right?
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And right now in your three departments you have 20 slices of bread,
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15 slices of cheese, 12 slices of turkey.
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Every sandwich that you make requires two slices of bread, one slice of cheese, and one slice of turkey.
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Yeah.
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How many total sandwiches can you make based on your inventory levels?
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you can only make 10, right?
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Because you have 20 slices of bread, You have...
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15 slices of cheese and then you have 12 slices of turkey.
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So your bread department is the slowest
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or have the least amount of output therefore they determine your throughput which is your maximum output rate.
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You can only make 10 sandwiches because you only have enough bread to make 10 sandwiches.
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You could make at least two more, because turkey would be next in line with 12 slices.
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So you could do two more if you had four more slices of bread.
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And that's how throughput works in relation to capacity planning.
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And this is when other departments get involved in organizations
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when it comes to producing products and how they can particularly slow the company down or become the bottleneck.
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And that can be for a number of reasons, right?
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Maybe the bread department has some employees that are on
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are not as efficient in that department as they are in other departments.
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But that's the general sense of what capacity is.
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Key takeaways.
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Capacity planning and capacity is really just about the measure of how can a company produce to meet demand,
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sustainably produce to meet demand of customer demand for products and or services.
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output is so
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low or their production time is so slow because
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that department is going to drive their throughput because the lowest throughput
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or the slowest time is the one that drives the throughput for the entire system.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “What is Capacity Planning in Operations Management”. Las palabras que más se repiten: capacity, slice, department, throughput, output. Este vídeo tiene 60 frases y 673 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:25. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 124 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 9 de sus 60 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
slice sustantivo/slaɪs/rebanada, lonja
output sustantivo/ˈaʊtpʊt/producción, output
aspect sustantivo/ˈæspɛkt/aspecto
efficient adjetivo/ɪˈfɪʃənt/eficiente, eficaz
relation sustantivo/ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/relación
furniture sustantivo/ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/mobiliario, mueble
inventory sustantivo/ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/inventario
bandwidth sustantivo/ˈbændwɪdθ/ancho de banda, anchura de banda
throughput sustantivo/ˈθɹuː.pʊt/tasa de datos, tasa de transferencia
bottleneck sustantivocuello de botella
optimize verbo/ˈɑptɪmaɪz/optimizar
takeaway sustantivo/ˈteɪkəweɪ/restaurante de manducatoria para recoger, jama para llevar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
slow down verbodesacelerar, decelerar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • How well can we produce?
  • Let's say you ran a sandwich shop.
  • How many total sandwiches can you make based on your inventory levels?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebe based · is called · is driven
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaoutput which is · throughput which is

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we're, can't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: bandwidth /ˈbændwɪdθ/, throughput /ˈθɹuː.pʊt/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, relation /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: utilize /ˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/, optimize /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como slice, output, aspect.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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