INM321

Production Management

Course ID
INM321
Department
Industrial Engineering & Management
Level
Undergraduate
Instructor
Prof. Dr. Abdul Salam Soomro
Semester
5th Semester
Credit
3.0

After completion of this course each student would be able to:

  • EXPLAIN the basic concepts and theories of the production management.
  • USE the essential analytical tools necessary to solve the production and operation management problems.

The Production Management is a compulsory course and has been offered by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Course Learning Outcomes

CLOs

description

Taxonomy Level

PLO

01

EXPLAIN the basic concepts and theories of the production management.

C2

1

02

USE the essential analytical tools necessary to solve the production and operation management problems.

C3

2

 

Course structure and modules

Introduction

              Production and operations management (P&OM), Historical Evolution and A Frame of Production and operations management, The Five Ps Productivity, factors Influencing productivity, Productivity Improvement techniques, Operations management, operations functions in organization.

Operation Strategy

Operation Stagey, competitive priorities, order winners and qualifiers, Focused Operations.

Aggregate Planning 

Techniques for Aggregate Planning, Aggregate planning in services, Disaggregate the aggregate plan  

Constraints management

The theory of constraints (TOC), Identifying Bottlenecks, Relieving Bottlenecks, Managing constraints in the process: Line balancing, rebalancing the Assembly Line.

Location and Design of the Plant or Facilities Strategies

Strategic Importance of the Locating strategies, Factors that affect location decisions, Methods of evaluation location decisions.

Resource Planning

Material resource Planning (MRP),  MRP objectives and Methods, MRP System components, Master Planning schedule (MPS), Developing Master Planning schedule (MPS), The MRP Computational procedure, Bill of Materials (BOM), Lot Size, Considerations of lot sizing, Capacity requirements Planning (CRP), Manufacturing resource Planning (MRP 11) , Enterprise  resource Planning (ERP).

Recommended Books

  • Operations Management, Sustainability and Supply Chain management, By Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Latest Edition      
  • Production Operations Management, Concepts, models and behavior, BY: Everett E. Adam, Jr.Ronald Ebert, Prentice -Hall USA, Latest Edition
  • Production and Operations Management, Roberta S. Russell & Bernard W. Taylor-III, Latest Edition.
  • Operations Management, processes and Supply chains,  By :  Lee J. Krajewsk, Manoj K. Malhotra, Larry P.Ritzman, Samir Srivastava, Pearson India Education services Pvt. ltd , latest editions
  • Operation management, by William J Stevenson,   McGraw Hill Education ltd., latest edition.
  • Operations management, By B.Mahadevani, Pearson India Education services Pvt. ltd, latest edition.
  • Operations management, By Amol Gore, Roberto Panizzolo, Cengage learning, India Pvt Limited, latest Edition