Monday, May 11, 2015

A Modern Approach to Operations Management

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A Modern Approach to Operations Management



Contents:

1. Production systems and operations management

  • introduction
  • related issues of operations management
  • operations function in organizations
  • role of models in operations management
  • classifying problems

2. Location of production and service facilities

  • introduction
  • reasons for location changes
  • general factors influencing location
  • general procedures for facility location
  • some other facility location models

3. Layout planning

  • introduction
  • effects of a plant layout
  • factors affecting layout
  • systematic layout planning (SLP)
  • other approaches to plant layout
  • types of layout
  • material handling

4. Purchasing systems and vendor rating

  • introduction
  • functions of material management
  • purchasing or procurement function
  • models of purchasing materials
  • steps in one complete purchasing cycle
  • vendor rating
  • what is expected of a better buyer
  • some working definitions
  • stores and material control
  • stores management

5. Operations planning and control (OPC)

  • introduction
  • benefits of better OPC
  • main functions of OPC
  • detailed functions of OPC

6. Inventory control

  • introduction
  • purpose of inventories
  • objective of inventory management
  • types of inventory control techniques
  • stocking of perishables

7. Material requirement planning

  • introduction
  • need for material planning
  • basic MRP concepts
  • factor affecting the computation of MRP
  • objectives of MRP system
  • prerequisites and assumptions of MRP
  • inputs to MRP
  • MRP outputs
  • MRP logic in brief
  • manufacturing resource planning (MRP) II
  • MRP implementation
  • how can industry benefit from MRP?

8. Just-In-Time approach

  • introduction
  • history of relations between management and workers
  • keys to successful JIT implementation
  • Japanese VS American management
  • how Japanese manufacturing ideally work?
  • comparison of MRP and JIT
  • requirements for successful implementation JIT
  • goals of JIT manufacturing system
  • theory of constraints (TOC)
  • TOC tools

9. Project management

  • introduction
  • some terms related to network planning
  • CPM and PERT model
  • variability of activity times
  • probability of completing a project by a given date
  • project crashing and time-cost trade-off
  • resource leveling
  • resource leveling of project schedules
  • project delay

10. Quality control

  • introduction
  • inspection
  • some quality related terms
  • statistical quality control (SQC)
  • acceptance sampling
  • sampling plans
  • process variability and control
  • control charts
  • use of computers in quality control

11. Total quality management and ISO-9000

  • what is TQM?
  • TQM need commitment
  • various approaches to TQM
  • some quality and TQM related terms
  • relationship between ISO 9000 and quality
  • relationship between ISO 9000 and TQM

12. Linear programming

  • introduction
  • the LP formulation and underlying assumptions
  • the general LP formulation
  • different forms of linear programs
  • the assignment problem
  • transportation problem

13. Methods engineering

  • introduction
  • objective of work-study
  • tools and techniques of work-study
  • standardization

14. Mechanization, automation, and productivity

  • introduction
  • assembly line
  • postal mechanization/early automation
  • the age of automation
  • productivity improvement stories
  • automation systems today

15. Value analysis and value engineering

  • introduction
  • some basic concepts
  • value tests
  • steps in value analysis
  • examples of value engineering
  • value engineering and simplification analysis
  • benefits of value engineering
 

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