ENIE 441 Production and Operations Management (3)

 

Required course for majors in the industrial specialty.

 

Catalog Description:

The detailed study of designing a product or service through the processes and systems of making and delivering the product, and controlling the operations. Fundamental coverage of the concepts of competitiveness, productivity, forecasting, supply chain management, inventory management, JIT, MRP, ERP, and queuing theory Basic quantitative techniques are explored. Spring semester. Lecture 3 hours.

 

Prerequisites:

ENIE 351, 354 with grades of C or better. 

 

Text book/references:

Stevenson William J., “Operations Management”, Irwin/McGraw Hill, 7th ed., 2002.

 

Course Objectives: (numbers in brackets indicates the relationship to engineering program outcomes)

  1. Develop an understanding of production and operations management (POM) and the importance of the management systems. (2)
  2. Analyze basic techniques of POM, such as forecasting, inventory planning, MRP, etc. (2)
  3. Discuss different case studies related to the POM problems and see how they will influence the whole company’s decisions. (2, 7)
  4. Implement computer applications by using POM software programs, such as DSWin (Decision Sciences for Windows) and Excel Solver. (3)
  5. Apply and expand POM knowledge through a project application and communicate process and results in writing and orally. (2, 3, and 5)

 

Class/laboratory schedule:

Lecture either three times per week at 50 minutes per class, or two times per week at 75 minutes per class.

 

Topics Covered:

Week                              Topic

1.                                            Introduction

2.                             Introduction to Operations Management

3.                          Competitiveness and Strategy 

4.                          Productivity

5.                                            Forecasting

6.                                            Forecasting

7.                                            Supply Chain Management

8.                                            Inventory Management

9.                                            Inventory Management

10.                                         Aggregate Planning

11.                                         MRP and ERP

12.                                         MRP and ERP

13.                                         Just-in-Time Systems

14.                        Waiting Lines

 

Contribution to Professional Component:

Contributes toward the 1.5 years of engineering topics as a 3 credit hour course in engineering sciences.

 

Relationship of course to program outcomes:

This course supports engineering outcomes 2, 3, 5, and 7.

 

Prepared by:  Dr. Neslihan Alp, 05/12/03