| TPPE75 | Analysing and Improving Manufacturing Operation, 4,5 ECTS credits. /Analys och utveckling av produktionsverksamhet/ |
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 24 |
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Area of Education: Technology Subject area: Production Economics |
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| Advancement level
(A-D): D
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| Aim: The purpose of the course is to present perspectives on how to analyse manufacturing operations and based on such analyses improve the value processes of the manufacturing firm. After taking this course, the student should possess enhanced knowledge about different analysis tools and approaches and about improvement models and approaches of both conceptual and operational nature. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) TPPE07/08 Production and Operations Management TPPE50 Manufacturing Strategies 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 OPERATIONS: Analyses of lead-times, capacity, material flow, customer and manufacturing orders, delivery service, inventories, information, and from a systems perspective. IMPROVING MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS: Value-based process enhancements through improvements in time, cost, flexibility and quality, with a special focus on setup-time reduction. SIMULATION AS SUPPORT FOR ANALYSING AND IMPROVING OPERATIONS: Relationships among lead-times, capacity, material flow, inventories, orders, delivery service, costs, information, and planning strategy. |
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| Course literature: Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem & Zemel, Managing Business Process Flows, Prentice-Hall, 1999. Additional handouts. |
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| Seminar Oral examination |
2 p 1 p |
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Course language is Swedish. Department offering the course: IPE. Director of Studies: Janerik Lundquist Examiner: Jan Olhager Link to the course homepage at the department Course Syllabus in Swedish |
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