LINKÖPINGS UNIVERSITET
COURSE INFORMATION
Institutionen för Ekonomisk och Industriell Utveckling
Avdelningen för Produktionsekonomi
Helene Lidestam
Mars 2015
TPMM06 Analysing and Improving Manufacturing Operations (6hp)
Aim:
The purpose of the course is to present perspectives on how to analyse
manufacturing operations and based on such analyses improve the value
processes of the manufacturing firm. After taking this course, the student
should possess enhanced knowledge about different analysis tools and
approaches and about improvement models and approaches of both conceptual
and operational nature.
Prerequisites:
Basic courses in Production and Operations Management and
Manufacturing Planning and Control
Teachers:
Helene Lidestam (HL), Examiner, lecture 1, 2, 4, 7 helene.lidestam@liu.se
Fredrik Persson (FP), lecture 3, 5, 6, 7 seminars and project
fredrik.persson@liu.se
Lujie Chen (LC), seminars and project, lujie.chen@liu.se
Sayeh Noroozi (SN), project, sayeh.noroozi@liu.se
Organisation:
The teaching is organised in lectures and seminars and laboratories. The
lectures deal with the theoretical approaches and the seminars and laboratory
sessions deal with a project
Lectures: 14 hrs; Seminars: 10 hrs; Laboratories: group work.
Course contents:
ANALYSING MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS: Analyses of lead-times,
capacity, material flow, customer and manufacturing orders, delivery service,
inventories, information, and from a systems perspective.
IMPROVING MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS: Value-based process
enhancements through improvements in time, cost, flexibility and quality,
with a special focus on setup-time reduction.
SIMULATION AS SUPPORT FOR ANALYSING AND IMPROVING OPERATIONS:
Relationships among lead-times, capacity, material flow, inventories, orders,
delivery service, costs, information, and planning strategy.
Course literature:
Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem & Zemel, Managing Business
Process Flows, 3:e upplagan, Prentice-Hall, 2012/2014. ISBN
9781292023113. Additional handouts.
Examination:
Seminar project, 4p.
Written examination, 2p.
A written report and presentation of the project (4p) and a written examination
(2p). The final grade depends on the sum the above two parts.
The project task consists of a larger problem in which a simulation tool is used
to analyze and develop the production of a fictitious company. The task is
assessed based grading criteria contained in the documentation for the project
assignment. The project team selects the rating sought and then the grading
criteria must be followed. A self-evaluation of how well the criteria are met
will be submitted with the final report. The latest time for submission is 1 of
June at 5 pm.
Course Webpage:
http://www.iei.liu.se/prodek/utbildning/tpmm06
Summary:
Important dates in the course:
- The course starts 24 of March at 10 am.
- Start of simulation runs, 1 of April at 5 pm.
- The last simulation run, 20 of April at 5 pm.
- Distribution of the simulation tool, PICSIM, to part B in the project, 21 of
April
- Submission of project report and self-evaluation, 1 of June at 5 pm.
Course outline
Lectures (Le)/Seminars (Se)
Item
Time and place
Content and objective of each item
Reading
Teacher
Le 1
W13, Tuesday,
10-12
Book Chap 1-3
+ course
presentation
HL
Le 2
W13, Friday,
15-17
Se 1
W14, Tuesday, 10-12
Course presentation, process management and
strategy, measurement of process flow
Overview, product attributes, Process attributes
Little’s Law
Flow-time, Capacity, Inventory analysis and cyclic
planning
Flow-time analysis, Capacity analysis, Inventory
analysis, Cyclic planning
Analysis of production flow
Introduction to PICSIM simulation
Lab
From 1 of April to 20
of April
W16, Tuesday
10-12
Le 3
Managing uncertainty
Overview, Safety inventory and safety capacity
Inventory in queueing systems
Analysis of the simulation
W16, Wednesday,
8-10
Le 4
W16, Thursday, 13-15 Setup time analysis
Background and definitions, Methods for setup time
reduction, Analysis setup time reduction
W17, Tuesday, 10-12 Statistics
Experimental design
W17, Wednesday
Analysis of the simulation
8-10
W17, Friday
Simulation in manufacturing systems
15-17
Definitions and terminology, Steps in a simulation
project
Se 3
Le 6
Handout material LC
project case
LC
Simulation running
Se 2
Le 5
Book Chap 4-6
HL
Handout material
cyclic planning
Book Chap 7,8
FP
Handout
materials
LC
Handout material HL
FP
LC
Book Chap 10
FP
Handout
materials
simulation tools
and experimental
design
LC, SN
Se 4
W20 Monday, 13-15
W20, Tuesday, 8-10
W20, Wednesday, 810
Discussion and supervision of simulation project
Le 7
W21, Tuesday
10-12
W21, Thursday,
13-17
Summary
HL, FP
Group presentation – simulation results
LC, HL
W23, Monday, 1 of
June at 5 pm
W23, Friday 8-12
The latest time to hand in the project report and the
selfevaluation
Written exam
HL
Se 5
HL
Simulation schedule for task A in the project– spring 2015
The simulations should be sent in by email to lujie.chen@liu.se
Date
Latest hand in
Results ready
Wednesday April 1
17.00
19.00
Thursday April 2
08.00
11.00
Thursday April 2
17.00
19.00
Friday April 3
08.00
11.00
Friday April 3
16.00
18.00
Monday April 6
08.00
11.00
Monday April 6
17.00
19.00
Tuesday April 7
17.00
19.00
Wednesday April 8
17.00
19.00
Thursday April 9
08.00
11.00
Friday April 10
17.00
19.00
Monday April 13
09.00
11.00
Monday April 13
17.00
19.00
Thursday April 16
09.00
11.00
Friday April 17
09.00
11.00
Friday April 17
17.00
19.00
Monday April 20
09.00
11.00
Monday April 20
17.00
19.00