Tag Archives: just-in-time

Point merge – the latest in aviation logistics

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

I’ve been travelling this week, which is why there haven’t been any posts for a while, and on my trip I experienced first hand the latest innovation in aviation logistics: Point Merge when approaching the destination airport. Aviation logistics is perhaps the wrong term as it is more correct to say the latest innovation in air traffic control, namely the sequencing of incoming and outgoing aircraft. Oslo airport in Norway was the first in the world to try out this new system, of course on the very day I was travelling.  Apart from causing a great deal of delays and cancellations (and passenger frustrations) due to heavy restrictions on the number of aircraft movements allowed during the initial phases of this new system I can’t help but think  about how nice it would be if all logistics or supply chain management issues were this easy to solve, at least on paper.

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A-maze-ing discoveries

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Revised on: 2015-09-10

Today’s post is on how looking up new articles from reference lists can lead to amazing discoveries, and it’s quite interesting to note how one thing leads to the other…especially when you’re doing literature reviews…and usually it’s like this: You are reading some article on your main subject when you see some interesting references, which you look up, just to find even more interesting references, which you also look up, just to be led even further astray… and soon you find yourself reading something that isn’t even remotely related to – but at the same time much more fascinating than – what you were researching in the first place. No wonder I cannot get things done… That’s how I stumbled upon the Theory of Constraints, an amazing discovery that came from the aforementioned a-maze-ing discoveries (i.e. references that led me astray).

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