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Analysing and Improving Manufacturing Operations, 6 ECTS credits.
/Analysing and Improving Manufacturing Operations/
For:
IND
MEC
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 48
Rec. self-study hours: 112
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Area of Education: Technology
Main field of studies: Industrial Engineering and Management
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): A
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Aim:
After this course the student should be able to:
- understand the relationship between analysis and improvement of manufacturing operations and the value processes of the firm.
- use the most common analysis tools and approaches.
- use the most common improvement tools and approaches.
- use simulation for analysing and improving manufacturing operations.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Admission to master level studies. Basic course in Production and Operations Management
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
The lectures deal with the theoretical approaches and the seminars and laboratory sessions deal with a project.
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Course contents:
Analysing Manufacturing Opreations: Anlayses of lead-time, capacity, material flow, customer and manufacturing orders, delivery service, inventories, informaiton, and from a systems perspective.
Improving Manufacturing Operations: Value-bases process enhancements through improvements in time, cost, fexibility an dquality, with a special focus on setup-time reduction.
Simulation as Support for Analysing and Improving Operations: Relationships among lead-time, capacity, material flow, inventories, orders, delivery service, costs, information, and plannning strategy.
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Course literature:
Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem and Zemel: Managing Business Process Flows, Prentice-Hall 2005.
Additional handouts.
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Examination: |
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Written examination
Seminar project
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3 ECTS
3 ECTS
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Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: Fredrik Persson
Examiner: Fredrik Persson
Link to the course homepage at the department
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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