1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
3. winter term 2023/2024
4. Management and Production Engineering - Second-cycle studies leading to MSc degree
5. Methods and techniques of production management

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Methods and techniques of production management - course description

Aim of the course

The transfer and consolidation of basic knowledge in production management and services that will be used in the further education process and will then prove useful in future professional work.

Prerequisites

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Organisation of production systems. Management of projects and innovations.

Scope

Lecture

Management of basic operations, management rules, basic operational management and financial management, profitability limits. The traditional and concurrent product development process. Management of diversity: revenue-contribution/input chart, the Pareto-ABC method, the Ischikawa diagram. Value analysis. Quality, comprehensive quality management, FMEA. Reliability of the product and system. Product life cycle. Location of the enterprise, location of facilities and workplaces, analysis of the sequence of operations. Design of pipelines, method of line balancing. Maintenance service of production equipment, rules for the organisation of repairs. Designing production flow, comparative analysis, balancing pipelines. Statistical control of the production process, control charts and random sampling. The computer aided control of basic activity. Basic forecasting techniques. Calendar planning, scheduling of performance deadlines and work assignment. Inventory management, independent and dependent demand, material specification and product structure, ways to reduce an inventory of material. Planning and production control systems: MRP, MRP II, ERP, "Just-in-Time", Kanban, OPT. Project management, material requirements planning. Supply, evaluation of suppliers.

Project

Issues relating to projects include: SWOT analysis, Pareto-ABC method, value analysis, FMEA, the principles of pipeline design, the line balancing method, production scheduling in conditions of variable demand

Teaching methods

Conventional lecture.

Project: presentation, round-table discussion and the exchange of ideas.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture

Grades awarded on the basis of a written test, covering verification of basic knowledge.

Project

The assessment consists of two components; one assesses the skills, related to the implementation of project tasks and the preparation of the report, while the other grade is awarded for the student’s “defence” of the report on the implementation of the project.

Final rating: the arithmetical mean of grades from individual classes.

Recommended reading

1. Muhlemann A.P., Oakland J.S., Lockyer K.G., Zarządzanie produkcją i usługami, WNT, Warszawa, 1997
2. Matuszek J., Inżynieria Produkcji. Skrypt Politechnika Łódzka, 2000.
3. Durlik I., Inżynieria Zarządzania. Strategia i Projektowanie Systemów Produkcyjnych  T. 1 i 2. Agencja Wydawnicza Placet, 2004.

Further reading

1. Duraj J., Podstawy Ekonomiki Przedsiębiorstwa, Polskie Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne 2000.
2. Jonson R., Chambers S., Harland Ch., Harrison A., Slack N., Zarządzanie działalnością operacyjną. Analiza przypadków.
3. Dwiliński L.: Zarządzanie produkcją. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Warszawskiej. Warszawa, 2002.
4. Brzeziński M. (red.), Organizacja i sterowanie produkcją, Placet, Warszawa, 2002
5. Waters D., Zarządzanie operacyjne : towary i usługi Warszawa, PWN, 2001.

Notes

Modified by dr inż. Tomasz Belica (last modification: 12-04-2023 23:05)