Linking organizational objectives to production and operations objectives – development of production and operations strategies
Basic manufacturing processes used in engineering and non engineering industries – metal working –metallurgical – chemicals – fertilizers – textiles – power generation and distribution
Need for product design and re design – designing for customer – designing a standard product formanufacturing and assembly – types of processes – process flow structures – specific equipment selection –process analysis – product design and process selection in services – product process matrix for services
Process of product development – idea generation – prototype building – provisional design – producibilitystudies – commercialization – design of facilities – advanced models in facility planning – assembly line balancing – developing group technology layout – systematic layout planning – problems
Just in time production systems – the Japanese approach for elimination of waste – JIT implementationrequirements – JIT in services – equipment selection – reasons for selection methods – financial and non financial – financial methods – ROI, ICCR – PCQ rating methods – MAPI methods
Job design and work measurement – job design decisions – approaches to job design – work measurement –standards – learning curves and its applications – value analysis – value engineering concepts to be incorporated
Aggregate planning – aggregate units of production – overview of aggregate planning problem – costs in aggregate planning – chase demand strategy – level of production strategy – mixed strategies – mathematicalmodels – linear decision rule – problems
MRP systems – Master production schedule – MRP concepts – terminology – MRP II – embedding JIT intoMRP – advanced MRP systems – simple problems