MGMT 2200 Syllabus

Subject Code

MGMT

Course Number

2200

Course Title

Production and Operations Management

Prerequisites

Provisional admission

Corequisites

Terms Offered

Offered every semester

Credit Hours

(3-0-3)

Course Description

This course provides students with an intensive study of the overall field of production and operations management. Topics include role of production management/production managers, operational design, capacity planning, aggregate planning, inventory management, project management, and quality control and assurance.

Course Outcomes

Role of Production Management/Production Managers

  • Describe the duties of the production manager in maintaining manufacturing facilities.
  • Describe the duties of the production manager in maintaining an adequate work force to meet production goals.
  • Describe the duties of the production manager in keeping costs of manufacturing as low as possible.
  • Discuss the production manager role in management decision making process.
  • Describe the steps in decision making analysis as applied to problem solving in the manufacturing setting.
  • Construct a simple forecast based on time series data
  • Compute cost-volume analysis and the quantitative trade offs of subcontracting.

Operational Planning

  • Discuss the role of the research and development activity as it relates to the life cycle of a product.
  • Discuss how location planning impacts production time, materials, and people.
  • Describe the techniques used in the designing process.

Capacity Planning

  • Discuss how facility layout impacts capacity and production scheduling in the manufacturing setting.
  • Show a facility layout which maximizes production capacity.
  • Compute the utilization and efficiency ratios associated with capacity loads.
  • Discuss load balancing and other scheduling techniques that optimize production.

Aggregate Planning

  • Define the term aggregate planning as applied to the manufacturing setting.
  • Define long-term planning as applied to the manufacturing setting.
  • Define short-term planning as applied to the manufacturing setting.
  • Compare examples of long-term and short-term planning and contrast them concerning production goals in the manufacturing setting.
  • Describe the techniques used in long-term planning.
  • Describe the techniques used in short-term planning.

Inventory Management

  • List the factors required for effective inventory management in the manufacturing settling.
  • Contrast the older and newer models of inventory management with respect to timely ordering of materials, include EOQ modeling.
  • Discuss the reasons inventory management philosophy has changed during the last fifty years.
  • Discuss the modern inventory management techniques and discuss the advantages each has brought to the manufacturing setting.

Project Management

  • Discuss the special problems associated with project management within the manufacturing setting.
  • Develop a list of techniques which deal with project management in the manufacturing setting.
  • Discuss the techniques of developing Gantt charts for a manufacturing setting.
  • develop a PERT/CPM analysis within the manufacturing setting.

Quality Control/Assurance

  • Discuss the reasons for establishing a quality assurance program within the manufacturing setting.
  • Describe the techniques used for improving quality within the manufacturing setting.
  • Discuss the concept involved in the acceptance sampling method of quality assurance.
  • Develop an R-chart for a production project within the manufacturing setting.
  • Develop an X-chart for a production project within the manufacturing setting.
  • Develop a P-chart for a production project within the manufacturing setting.
  • Develop a C-chart for a production project within the manufacturing setting.