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Production Management

Teaching:

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Prerequisites:

None

Load:

Lectures	Exercises	Laboratory exercises	Project laboratory	Physical education excercises	Field exercises	Seminar	Design exercises	Practicum
30		0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Course objectives:

Production function, development of operations strategy, production types, project management by computer, optimization methods in production

Student responsibilities:

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

Test 1 30%, Test 2 30% or final exam 60% Homeworks 10% Seminar 20 % Oral exam 10%

Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:

Knowledge verification by 2 tests. Continuous monitoring of participation in class and through homeworks.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

Define the concept of production management - Calculate the single factor productivity and total factor productivity - Basic knowledge and concepts of production planning - Apply knowledge of a process approach to production - Apply knowledge of lean and green manufacturing - Apply the methods of managing complex projects - Use Gantt Charts on the problems of planning - Apply the network planning techniques - Explain and apply models of inventory management

Lectures

1. Production management definition - production management history - management tasks in production - goods and services producers

2. operations strategy definition - operations strategy model - operations strategy types - production objectives

3. International production and globalization

4. Production efficiency levels

5. Strategy of new product introduction

6. Importance of quality function - satisfaction of customer quality demands - planning process and quality control

7. Process flow characteristics - Production process clasification by order type - process selection definitions - structuring - service production structuring - service matrix - service providing system

8. Production types, work planning in facility, make to order, make to stock, production preparation tasks

9. Time and material normativs, real production cycle, worktime fund definition

10. Cycles from marketing to production plans, production resources planning - time, material, tools and cooperation

11. Free and used capacities supervision and operation and product deadlines definition

12. Project types, structure, phases, activity

13. Network planning techniques, arrow chart /PERT and CPM/

14. Network planning techniques transplan, PD and BKT

15. Agreggate or level planning from product plan to manufacture plan for specific workshop or RM

Exercises

1. Linear programming

2. Complex production problems - solving by computer

3. Non-linear programming

4. Transport problems

5. Test 1

6. Importance of decision making in production

7. Importance of anticipation in production

8. Causal methods of anticipation

9. Production process types - examples

10. Test 2

11. Production resources planning - examples

12. Project management by computer

13. PERT and network planning examples

14. Transplan and PD examples

15. Test 3

Compulsory literature:

Roger G. Schroeder.,: Upravljanje proizvodnjom, Mate, Zagreb, 1999.
J.Heizer, B.Render: Operations Management, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2012
James B. Dilworth: Operations management, Mc Grow Hill, inc., New York, 1995.
Schonberger R.J., Knod M.E.: Operations Management, Irwin, 1994.

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