END328 PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT II
Course Description
This is a quantitatively oriented course dealing with production and inventory management. Specifically,
applications of Operations Research methodology to problems of production planning, scheduling and
inventory control are presented. Throughout the course modeling concepts that are useful in solving
production management problems in the areas of lean manufacturing, integrated supply chain, shop floor
control and aggregate planning will be emphasized.
Textbook
Hopp, W. and M. L. Spearman, “Factory Physics”, McGraw-Hill, 2000, 2/e
Reference Books
1. Johnson, Lynwood and Douglas Montgomery “OR in Production Planning, Scheduling and
Inventory Control”, John Wiley, 1974
2. Nahmias, Steven, “Production and Operations Analysis, McGraw Hill, 2001
3. Askin, Ronald and Jeffrey Goldberg, “Design and Analysis of Lean Production Systems”, John
Wiley, 2002
Course Outline
Week 1
Manufacturing Management
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Week 2 and 3
MRP
MRP II
Beyond MRP II - ERP
The JIT revolution
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Week 4 and 5
Origins
Implementation
Kanban
Trouble with MRP, JIT and Scientific Management
A Science of Manufacturing
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Week 6
Objectives, Measures , and Controls
Models and Performance Measures
Basic Factory Dynamics
Simple Relationships
Variability Basics
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Variability and Randomness
Causes of Variability
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Variability Interactions-Queueing
Effects of Blocking
Week 7
Midterm I
Week 8
The Corrupting Influence of Variability
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Week 10 and 11
Performance and Variability
Flow Laws
Batching Laws
Cycle Time
Push and Pull Production Systems
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The Pull
CONWIP
Comparisons of CONWIP with MRP and Kanban
A Pull Planning Framework
Week 12
Midterm II
Week 13
Shop Floor Control
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Week 14
CONWIP Configurations
Other Pull Mechanisms
Production Tracking
Production Scheduling
Operations Scheduling
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Scheduling System Requirements
Order Release Strategies
Single Machine Scheduling
Flow Shop Scheduling
Job Shop Scheduling
Shop Floor Control
Grading: 2 midterms, each 25%, assignments 10%, and final 40%