Course Overview
Surveys the general background of operations management in terms of planning and organizing manufacturing operations. Topics include facilities planning, layout, and location, problem solving, continuous improvement, team practices, projects planning and scheduling, and production and inventory control.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
5.5
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe productivity and how it relates to the effective use of resources.
- Describe competitiveness and how effective a firm is in the marketplace compared with other organizations and how strategy relates to the plans that determine the direction an organization takes in pursuing its goals.
- Describe the basic types of facilities layout, design product layouts using line balancing and design process layouts by minimizing transportation costs/distances.
- Analyze work systems and propose new methods using process flow charts, worker-machine charts and learning curves.
- Define quality, describe the costs associated with quality and discuss ISO 9000 and the philosophies of quality gurus.
- Define and determine quality control using control charts, process capability and acceptance sampling.
- Define Total Quality Management (TQM) and describe and use problem solving and process improvement tools such as check sheet, flowchart, scatter diagram, histogram, Pareto chart, cause-and-effect diagram, brainstorming and quality circles.
- Define inventory; discuss the periodic, perpetual and ABC systems and describe the basic Economic Order Quantity (EOQ), economic run size, quantity discount, reorder point and single-period models.
- Describe the conditions under which Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is most appropriate, the nature of MRP processing, MRP II and how it relates to MRP; discuss the benefits and requirements of MRP and the difficulties encountered with MRP.
- Explain what is meant by just-in-time (JIT) production and the goals, benefits, considerations and obstacles encountered with JIT.
- Explain what scheduling involves, discuss scheduling needs in varying systems, use and interpret Gantt charts and discuss and give examples of commonly used priority rules.
- Describe project management; discuss the nature and importance of work breakdown structures; describe, construct and analyze program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and critical path method (CPM) network diagrams; analyze network diagrams with deterministic and probabilistic times and describe activity 'crashing' and solve 'crashing' problems.
Effective as of Fall 2003
Related Programs
Industrial Engineering (OPMT 1184) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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School of Energy
- Mechatronics and Robotics
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