Study Guide@lith
 

Linköping Institute of Technology

 
 
Valid for year : 2017
 
TMMT03 Biotechnical Production Systems, 6 ECTS credits.
/Biotekniska produktionssystem/

For:   KeBi   TB  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 44
Rec. self-study hours: 116

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Engineering Biology

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The overall goal of the course is for students to gain knowledge and understanding of modern industrial production, with a special focus on biotechnical production systems. By combining knowledge from this course with other courses students should gain the ability to design and operate cost-effective and productive biotechnical production systems.
Knowledge objectives for the course are:
  • Knowledge of and understanding for modern industrial production, with a special focus on biotechnical production systems.
  • Knowledge about the design and operation of production systems for a biotechnical product, where the biotechnical-related process steps are an integrated part of the total production system.
Skill goals for the course are:
  • Be able to analyze a production system with the help of the Rapid Plant Assessment (RPA) method
  • Be able to to judge the prerequisites for an industrial biotechnical production system, and to independently draw conclusions regarding these prerequisites.
  • Independently collect and evaluate information that is relevant for the design and operation of an industrial biotechnical production system. Given this, be able to prioritize, verify and critically analyze the information
  • Become familiar with generic theories regarding production design and operations of a production system in its environment, and apply them to real companies within the biotechnology area
  • Integrate and synthesize information collected with generic theories relevant for the design and operation of an industrial biotechnical production system


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Industrial biotechnology

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.

Organisation:
Instruction consists of lectures, lessons and field trips. The course is also strongly linked to the course Design of Biotechnical Process and Production Systems, Project Course.
In the project course the students,in groups of two to three people, relate the different parts of the course Biotechnological production systems and the course literature for a specific type of biotech industry. The course literature is generic and can be applied to several types of production and operations. The aim of the project is, based on the course Biotechnological production system point of view, that the participants will use the knowledge provided through the lectures and course literature to immerse themselves in a certain type of biotech industry or company. The choice of the biotech industry is made by the participants themselves in dialogue with the course coordinator. The project gives students the opportunity to develop different abilities and skills related to engineering by practicing different roles in the work of the project. The project is reported orally continuously during the course and with a final oral presentation and written report.

For students following the master profile Industrial Biotechnology and Production, this course should be taken the same semester as TFTB32.

Course contents:
The course focused around the concepts and issues that are important for most types of modern industrial production but with a special application of biotechnological production systems. Key areas addressed in the course is, for example, operations management, operations strategy, operations networks, layout and flow, job design and work organization, capacity and inventory planning and control, supply chain planning and control, just-in-time planning and control , project planning and control, quality planning and control, total quality management (TQM), and production economics.

Course literature:
Slack, N., Chambers, S., Johnston, R., Operations Management, Prentice Hall/Pearson Education

Examination:
Written examination
6 ECTS
 



Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: Mats Björkman
Examiner: Mats Björkman
Link to the course homepage at the department


Course Syllabus in Swedish

Linköping Institute of Technology

 


Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 10/26/2016