Production Management

Code:

EM506

Acronym:

GPM

Instance: 2003/2004 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Industrial Management and Engineering Section
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEM	13	Plano de Estudos EM Oficial a partir de 2000	5	3,5	7	-
		Plano para Bachareis EM a partir 2000	2	3,5	7	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The aim of this course is to provide the students an integrated vision of the most important concepts, techniques and strategies of the Production/Operations Management. By completing the course, one expects that the students acquire a global vision of the concepts, problems and available tools, enabling them to take better decisions in the scope of the field of study.

Program

Introduction to the field of study: Operations Strategy and Competitive Dimensions: Cost, Quality, Time and Flexibility (and its Trade-Offs).
Process Analysis.
Facility Layout (including assembly-line balancing).
Strategic Capacity Management.
Just-in-Time, with special reference the techniques of setup-time reduction (SMED)
Introduction to the ERP concept (Entreprise Resource Planning Systems).
Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning
Inventory Control: Deterministic and Dynamic models (including SilverMeal heuristic and the Algorithm of Wagner-Whitin).
MRP-Material Requirements Planing.
Operations Scheduling: Priority Rules;. Gantt.Charts;.
Linear programming and Optimization for Production Management.
Synchronous Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints (Goldratt).
Applied Production Workshop (computer simulation game).

Main Bibliography

Chase, Jacobs and Aquilano
Operations Management for Competitive Advantage
Tenth Edition, 2003
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0072845074.mhtml

Additionally, notes, extra problems and the respective resolutions are distributed to the students.

Complementary Bibliography

Wallace J. Hopp and Mark L. Spearman
Factory Physics: Foundations of Manufacturing Management.
Second Edition, 2000
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0256247951.mhtml

Teaching methods and learning activities

The concepts and techniques will be supported through practical exercises, cases and resolution of problems in “facility” simulator. Computers, "datashow" and a lot of white board are used as teaching support. Report writing and presentation techniques of results are requested. Team work is promoted.

Software

Microsoft EXCEL. PC Simulator of problems of Production Management.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

Not to exceed nº limit of absences.

Calculation formula of final grade

i)Cases: 40%.
ii)Tests: 30%
iii)Workshop: 30%
Minimum note in each Test: 6. average > 9 values.