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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “What is Capacity Planning in Operations Management”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: capacity, slice, department, throughput, output. Deze video bevat 60 zinnen en 673 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:25. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 124 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen. 9 van de 60 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 11 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| slice zelfstandig naamwoord | /slaɪs/ | plak, schijf |
| output zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈaʊtpʊt/ | productie |
| aspect zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæspɛkt/ | aspect |
| efficient bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | efficiënt |
| relation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ | familielid, bloedverwant |
| furniture zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ | meubel, meubelstuk |
| inventory zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/ | voorraad, inventaris |
| bandwidth zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbændwɪdθ/ | bandbreedte |
| bottleneck zelfstandig naamwoord | flessenhals | |
| optimize werkwoord | /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/ | optimistisch zijn/handelen |
| takeaway zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈteɪkəweɪ/ | afhaalmaaltijd |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| slow down werkwoord | afremmen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- 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?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be based · is called · is driven |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | output which is · throughput which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 4 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals we're, can't, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: bandwidth /ˈbændwɪdθ/, throughput /ˈθɹuː.pʊt/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, relation /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, utilize /ˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/, optimize /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, aspect /ˈæspɛkt/, bandwidth /ˈbændwɪdθ/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, bandwidth /ˈbændwɪdθ/, takeaway /ˈteɪkəweɪ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als slice, output, aspect.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.