LOG713 Models for Production Management (Autumn 2022)
- 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
Knowledge
The student should have knowledge of:
- Different levels of production planning and control, and which decisions are made at each level
- Aggregated production planning and Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)
- The concepts just-in-time, kanban, optimized production technology, and the theory of constraints
- Lot-sizing problems and sequencing rules for single machine scheduling
- Little’s Law, throughput, cycle time and line balancing problems for production lines
Skills
The student is able to:
- Create aggregated production plans based on both chase and level strategies
- Create MRP records based on verbal descriptions
- Apply heuristics and the Wagner-Within method to solve lot-sizing problems
- Apply basic sequencing rules for single machine scheduling
- Calculate best case, worst case, and practical worst case performance for cycle time and throughput of a given production line
- Execute a heuristic to solve line balancing problems for production lines
General competence
The student can:
- Comprehend and apply models and solution methods for production planning problems taken from textbooks and research articles
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: School assessment
- Proportion: 100%
- Duration: 4 hours
- Grouping: Individual
- Grading scale: Letter (A - F)
- Supported material: Calculator with empty memory + general dictionary in mother tongue/Norwegian/English in paper version
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