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- Teaching: Completely taught in English
- ECTS: 4
- Level: Graduate
- Semester: Winter
- 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 - new product development process
- 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. Types of production systems
- 2. Operations strategies - examples
- 3. Production mission
- 4. Production objectives
- 5. Companies specific capabilities
- 6. Production politics
- 7. Test 1
- 8. Qualitative methods of anticipation
- 9. Time-series method
- 10. Causal methods of anticipation
- 11. Production resources planning - examples
- 12. Project management by computer
- 13. PERT and network planning examples
- 14. Transplan and PD examples
- 15. Test 2
- 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. - Recommended literature: