| TPPE91 |
Production System Planning and Management , 6 ECTS credits.
/Produktionssystemets planering och ekonomi/
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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): G2
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Aim:
After taking this course, the student should:
- have knowledge in the relation between a production system and a industry company other functions
- have knowledge about the most important business processes in a manufacturing company, and understand the internal and external supply chains
- have knowledge about the basics in production economics, economical issues for industrial production and the connection to business strategies
- be able to describe different production systems and their layout and be able to identify critical factors when designing a production system
- have knowledge about different ways of organising material handling and distribution
be able to describe material- and production management, in both a long and a short horizion, and their methods, from sale and production planning, via main planning and material and resource planning down to detail planning
- have basic knowledge about lean production
- be able to describe and use the most common methods for inventory control
- be able do describe inportant factors regarding purchase/manufacturing decisions and decisions about outsourcing
- have knowledge about different way of measure flow- and resource efficiency and have understanding how they are related
- have a basic knowledge in the methology how to analyse and improve flows and processes
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Basic knowledge in Industrial management, optimization, and statistics
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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Supplementary courses:
Manufacturing Strategies. Production Logistics. Basics in Logistics Management, Quality Management and Engineering, which give the students possibility to follow master courses in manufacturing management, logistics management and quality management.
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Organisation:
Lectures are mainly concerned with introduces theoretical issues and conscepts, but also ties together various parts of the course. The lessons are concentrating on exercises connected to the most important course sections. A practical case runs through the course, where different approaches are presented and discussed at the seminars. A number of assignments in various parts of the case study are the basis for examination projectassignment.
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Course contents:
The basics in Production economics, important concepts and categorising of companies. Developing and construction of production systems for effective production based on essential business management. Different production systems, Sale- and production planning, main planning and resource material planning, detail planning, inventory control, business processes, economical key factors. Principles for distribution and lean production. Purchase and distribution in a manufacturing industry. Purchase/manaufacturing decisions and the basic knowledge about outsourcing.
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Course literature:
Olhager, Jan: Produktionsekonomi, (in Swedish), Studentlitteratur 2013
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Examination: |
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Written examination
Project work
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3 ECTS
3 ECTS
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Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: Fredrik Persson
Examiner: Mathias Henningsson
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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