After completion of this course each student would be able to:
The Production Planning and Control is a compulsory course and has been offered by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
CLO’s |
Description |
Taxonomy Level |
PLO |
1 |
PREPARE the Production planning strategies |
C3 |
1 |
2 |
ANALYZE how to achieve the Production targets |
C4 |
4 |
3 |
ANALYZE the service level for the satisfaction of customers |
C4 |
4 |
Course Contents:
Definition and concept of production planning and control, phases of production planning and control, objectives of production planning and control, functions of production planning and control.
Introduction to different production system, Types of Production, Size of plant, the types of Industry and layouts, Material requirement planning, manufacturing requirement planning, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Toyota production system, 5S methodology.
Introduction to forecasting, purpose of sales forecasting in production planning, forecasting techniques.
Introduction to product development and design, effect of design on cost, factors affecting product design, product design process organizational Policy, Effect of Competition on design, Product Analysis, Product Life Cycle.
Introduction to scheduling, Forms of Schedule, factors affecting scheduling, scheduling procedures and techniques, The Simulation technique, the computer scheduling, loading and its aims.
Introduction to inventory control, its objectives and how to achieve them, role of production manager to control inventories, benefits of maintaining inventories, Inventory Management, Types, Inventory Objective, Push and Pull Inventory Control.
Introduction to dispatching and its types, dispatching procedures, Routing Concept, Routing procedure.
Introduction to progress control, stages & activities of control, Stages of Progress control, line of balance (LOB) and its techniques.