Learning objectives
State-of-the art concepts and techniques are combined to offer a practical solution to enhancing the manufacturing planning and the control systems.
Full programme
I – TRADITIONAL TECNIQUE FOR MANUFACTURING PLANNING AND CONTROL
1 – Demand Management (Demand management and production planning – Demand management technique: moving average – exponential smoothing – exponential smoothing + trend and seasonality correction)
2 – Inventory Control (The Economic Order Quantity Model – Periodic Order Quantity – Dynamic Lot Sizing)
3 – Flow production planning
4 – Lot production planning
5 – Project Management Techniques (Work Breakdown Structure - Gantt – Critical Path Method – Project Evaluation and Review Technique)
6 - Stopwatch time - Work Sampling - Predetermined Time Study
II - MRP II
1 – Manufacturing Planning and Control (Definition – System framework – evolution of MPC systems - Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II))
2 - Production Plan (Bowman - Magee – Simulation What If - Resource Requirements Planning (RRP))
3 – Master Production Planning (Time Cycle Chart – Two level Master Production Scheduling – Methods for constructing Planning Bill of Material Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP))
4 - Material Requirements Planning (MRP) (Low Level Coding - Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP))
5 – Bill of Material
6 – Scheduling (Scheduling framework - Finite Capacity Scheduling (FCS) – Displacing rule; flow-shop and job-shop scheduling)
III – ADVANCED CONCEPS IN PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
1 - Just In Time (JIT) and kanban scheduling
2 – Just in Time and MRP integration: Synchro-MRP
3 - Workload control (Order review and release strategies (ORR) - Load-oriented manufacturing control)
4 - CONWIP system
5 - Optimise Production Technology (OPT)
Bibliography
1 - Wallace Hopp, Mark Spearman, "Factory Physics", McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 3 edition (October 24, 2007)
2 - F. Robert Jacobs, William Berry, D. Whybark, Thomas Vollmann, "Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management", McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 6 edition (March 2, 2010)
3 - William Stevenson, "Operations Management", McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 10 edition (October 28, 2008)
Teaching methods
Lectures on theory and practice
Assessment methods and criteria
Written exercises and theory
