Practical Operations Management
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Chapter 15, Problem 4DQ
Summary Introduction
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Relation of robustness and redundancy withbiomimicry.
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Biomimicry is the art of copying the design principles from natural systems. Redundancy is the provision of additional features in the system to ensure that the system continues to work in changed situations.
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