Production and Operations Management 

 

6 ECTS credits

 

·        Course code

MST8054

·        Type of course

Compulsory

·        Level of course

Undergraduate

·        Year of study

2004-2005

·        Semester

Spring

·        Number of credits allocated

6 ECTS Credits

·        Name of lecturer

Ioannou George, Assistant Professor

·        Objective of the course (expected learning outcomes and competences to be acquired)

The goal of the course is to introduce the student to the design, analysis, reengineering, optimisation and functional control of Manufacturing-Industrial and Service companies, and to highlight the intense need for effective management of the constrained resources of their constituent systems. Through the course, the student will understand the organizational structure and the various components, sub-systems and functions of a Production or Service Provisioning System, and will gain significant knowledge on the problems arising during their design and operation, as well as on the problem-solving methods through analytical and computational techniques. The topics of the course cover all complex and interrelated business processes inherent in the systems operation, e.g., product and process design, forecasting, planning and scheduling, facility location and layout, and quality control. Finally, the course provides: a) a classification of the vertical markets with their individual characteristics, b) a definition of the practical and theoretical problems encountered in each of them, and c) an analysis of the modern strategic and tactical approaches for effective management.

·        Prerequisites

Recommended material: Management Science in Practice

                                  Business Analysis & Process Modelling            

·        Course contents

The topics included within the scope of Production and Operations Management are numerous and diverse. The following list provides the areas that will be covered within the course:

1.     Introduction – Definition of Production Systems

2.     The evolution of Production and Operations Management

3.     Industrial – manufacturing systems

4.     Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing

5.     Forecasting

6.     Facility Location

7.     Facility layout – design and material handling systems

8.     Production Planning and Inventory Control

9.     Production scheduling

10. Statistical Quality Control and Total Quality Management – TQM

·        Recommended reading

&    Krajewski, L. and L. Ritzman (2002). Operations Management: Strategy and Analysis, 6th Edition, Addison-Wesley, حص.

&    Hopp, W.J. and Spearman M.L. (2001). Factory Physics: Foundations of Manufacturing Management, 2nd Edition, Irwin, Chicago.

&    Nahmias, S. (1997). Production and Operations Analysis, 3rd Edition, Irwin, Chicago.

·        Teaching methods

Internet-based communication with student, tutorials, workshops/meetings

·        Assessment methods

Final written exam

·        Language of instruction

English