Understand the scope of Production Management

Understand the scope of Production Management

Understand the scope of Production Management by covering the various aspects and interactions of Facility Location; Plant Layout & Materials Handling, Product & Process Design; Production Planning and Control; Quality Control; Materials Management and Maintenance, in a one plant solution;

Study the organization of Production Management in a hybrid solution, where other partners intervene;

Place the production process in an entrepreneurial, global and IT driven context.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

understand the production management within operation management;

describe operations processes design and their management to contextualize and improve production performance;

assess lay out design and evaluate facility location;

evaluate how to elaborate a master production schedule (MRS) and material requirement planning (MRP);

understand quality control components and measures;

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