No science has been
even been born on a single day. Operation research is not exception of it. Its
root is as old as science and society. Those are roots of operation research
extend to early 1800’s. But completely disclosed in 1885 When F. W. Taylor
emphasized the application of scientific analysis to the method of production.
After then, in 1914,
F. W. lanchester used mathematical equation in the field of forecasting
outcomes of military battles. In 1917, A. K. Erlong used queuing theory in the
field of production of waiting time for callers using an automatic telephone
exchange. In 1924, W. Shewhard used the theory of probability and statistical
inference in case of production quality control charge and in 1930 H. C.
Levinson used mathematical expression in the field of marketing relationship.
The name operation
research was evolved in the year 1940. During Second World War, a team of
scientist (Blackett’s Circus) in UK applied scientist method to study military
operations to win the world and the techniques thus developed was named as
operation research.
Later on, the
economic crisis of UK required radical improvement. This resulted in an
industrial revolution and the operation research techniques so far developed in
defense problems to provide a more vigorous and scientific approach to the
problems. After a decade of second world war, operation research techniques was
rapidly developed in the field of industrial, academic and government
organizations.
After the Second
World War, due to high development technology, people used machinery instead of
manpower as controller. The new revolution began around 1970’s when electric
computers were available in market.
In business sector,
from 1950, the operation research techniques were used highly. Not only these,
even in America it was introduced as an academic subject. Since then, this
subject has been gaining ever increasing importance to the students of
mathematics, statistics, commerce, economics etc.
Nowadays, we cannot
think any business without operation research techniques.
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