LOG713 Models for Production Management (Autumn 2020)
- ECTS Credits:
- 7.5
- Responsible faculty:
- Avdeling for logistikk
- Campus:
- Molde
- Course Leader:
- Lars Magnus Hvattum
- Teaching language:
- English
- Study level:
- {code=HN, name=Second degree level}
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
Contents
Different topics concerning production planning will be treated like Little’s law, scheduling problems with different objectives, line balancing and lot sizing. In a more general setting production philosophies like MRP, OPT/TOC, Lean /JIT and agile production are discussed.
The course is connected to the following study programs
Recommended knowledge
None, apart from being a master student in logistics accepted into the Logistics Analytics variant.
The student's learning outcomes after passing the exam
After having completed the course, the students should be able to:
- Present the different levels of production planning and control, and which decisions are made at each level
- Create aggregated production plans based on both chase and level strategies
- Present how materials requirement planning (MRP) works, and create MRP records based on verbal descriptions
- Describe the concepts just-in-time, kanban, optimized production technology, and the theory of constraints
- Solve instances of the lot-sizing problem using a range of heuristics, as well as the Wagner-Whitin method
- Define and use several different sequencing rules for single machine scheduling, and give an account of which rules are optimal with respect to which criteria
- Calculate best case, worst case, and practical worst case performance for cycle time and throughput of a given production line
- Formulate the line balancing problem and execute a heuristic for solving it
Forms of teaching and learning
3 hours of lectures per week.
Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam
- Mandatory coursework: Assignment(s)
- Courseworks given: 2
- Courseworks required: 2
- Presence: Not required
- Comment:
Exam
- Form of assessment: Written school assessment
- Proportion: 100%
- Duration: 4 Hours
- Grouping: Individual
- Grading scale: Letter (A - F)
- Support material: Calculator with empty memory + general dictionary in mother tongue/Norwegian/English in paper version
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