Production and Operations Management syllabus
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Production and Operations Management
5 units
2 Production planning and scheduling LH 14
5 Optimization Techniques LH 14
- Linear programming
- General statement of linear programming problem
- Formulation of linear programming problem
- Assumptions underlying linear programming
- Some special cases in linear programming
- Solution to maximization problems
- Solution to minimization problems
- Duality in linear programming problem
- Economic interpretation of duality
- Concept on sensitivity analysis Transportation problem
- Testing Optimality condition
- Balanced and unbalanced transportation problem
- Closed path formation
- Maximization problem
- Assignment problem
- Solution of Minimization and maximization of assignment problem by Hungarian Method
- Balanced and unbalanced assignment problem
1. Basic Concepts and Introduction LH 6
- Concept
- Concept
- Transformation model
- Transformation model
- Manufacturing versus Service operations
- manufacturing versus Service operations
- Historical Development of Operations Management
- Historical Development of Operations Management
- Types of production system
- Types of production system
- operations strategy
- Global view of operations
- global view of operations
- Achieving competitive advantage though operations
- achieving competitive advantage though operations
- Concept and types of Productivity
- concept and types of Productivity.
2. Production planning and scheduling LH 14
- Product development
- Product development: Operational issues in product life cycle
- Product development process
- product development process, Quality function deployment, value engineering, Manufacturing process and service process, Capacity planning decisions, aggregate planning strategies, location planning: strategic importance of location, Factors affecting location decisions, methods of evaluating location alternatives, layout strategies: strategic importance of layout decisions, Types of layout, Designing product layout: Assembly line balance Overview of the operations planning and
- scheduling system, loading, priority sequencing, forward scheduling and backward scheduling, expediting, optimized production technology
3. Materials Management LH 8
- Objectives and importance of material management
- Objectives and importance of material management
- Procurement activities
- procurement activities
- Material Handling
- warehousing
- Inventory management
- Inventory management
- Inventory costs
- Inventory control system
- Inventory control system
- Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
- Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
- ABC Inventory planning system
- ABC Inventory planning system
4. Managing for Quality LH 6
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Definitions of quality
- definitions of quality
- Concepts of Total quality management
- concepts of Total quality management
- Quality management system
- Quality management system
- 7 tools for the quality journey
- 7 tools for the quality journey
- Quality costs
- Six-Sigma
- Statistical process control
- Statistical process control
- Control charts for variables and attributes
- control charts for variables and attributes
- acceptance sampling
- process capability
5. Optimization Techniques LH 14
- Linear programming
- Linear programming: Introduction to Linear programming problem
- General statement of linear programming problem
- general statement of linear programming problem
- Formulation of linear programming problem
- Formulation of linear programming problem
- Assumptions underlying linear programming
- Assumptions underlying linear programming
- Some special cases in linear programming
- some special cases in linear programming
- Simplex method
- Solution to maximization problems
- Solution to maximization problems
- Solution to minimization problems
- solution to minimization problems
- Big-M method
- Duality in linear programming problem
- Duality in linear programming problem
- Economic interpretation of duality
- Economic interpretation of duality
- Concept on sensitivity analysis Transportation problem
- concept on sensitivity analysis Transportation problem: Vogel’s Approximation method (VAM) for generating initial basic feasible solution
- Testing Optimality condition
- Testing Optimality condition
- Balanced and unbalanced transportation problem
- Balanced and unbalanced transportation problem
- Closed path formation
- closed path formation
- Maximization problem
- Maximization problem
- Assignment problem
- Assignment problem: Introduction
- Solution of Minimization and maximization of assignment problem by Hungarian Method
- solution of Minimization and maximization of assignment problem by Hungarian Method
- Balanced and unbalanced assignment problem
- balanced and unbalanced assignment problem.