Production Management

Course Description

DESCRIPTION

The course provides detailed content of how production and services are managed in a company. For this, a hierarchical focus will be applied on three levels, strategic, tactical and operational. Specifically, this course will cover the study and application of techniques for demand forecasting, generating aggregate master and materials plans as well as capacity plans and production schedules. On completing this course, students are expected to be able to explain the existing engineering techniques for production planning in companies and assess decisions relating to aggregate and master planning using economic and technical criteria. In addition, they must be able to formulate the existing techniques for materials planning, detailed capacity planning and production scheduling, and apply them correctly to specific cases.

SUBJECT COMPETENCIES

Upon completion of this course, the student must have acquired and exercised the following skills: 

General Competence TEAMWORK (CG-05): Integrate and collaborate actively in the achievement of common objectives with other people, areas and organizations.

Level of domain: 2. Contributing to the consolidation and development of the team, favoring communication, the balanced distribution of tasks, the internal climate and cohesion.

In addition, the learning outcomes expressed in terms of specific competences are:

C.E.1 Explain existing engineering techniques to carry out production planning in companies and evaluate decisions related to aggregate and master planning through economic and technical criteria.

C.E.2 Formulate existing techniques for material planning, detailed capacity planning and production scheduling, and apply them correctly to specific cases.

COURSE CONTENT 

UNIT 1. Introduction to production. Products and services. Types of production processes and production strategies. Production indicators. Industry 4.0 SMART INDUSTRY

UNIT 2. Production planning and control following a hierarchical focus. Capacity planning. Demand forecasting ON LINE. BIG DATA. CO WORKING I4.0

UNIT 3. Aggregate and master planning. Chase and level strategies in aggregate planning. Approximate planning using capacity lists and resource profiles. PRODUCTIVITY ADDED VALUE.

UNIT 4. The MRP / MRP II system. CRP. Limitations of MRP / MRP II systems.

UNIT 5. Production scheduling and the OPT / TOC system. The OPT objectives and rules. The DBR software. Production scheduling with OPT. The TOC philosophy. MANUFACTURING OF THE FUTURE.

UNIT 6. The just in time (JIT) method. Objectives. The five zeros. Empowerment. Personnel flexibility and creativity. New Industry 4.0 - conected - addev value  suppliers / customers - end customer vs clients.

UNIT 7. Production planning and control in JIT. Production smoothing. Standardisation of operations. Pull systems.

METHODOLOGY
The course is divided into subject units.
In each subject the teacher will give lectures on its contents and on the objectives to be reached
during its undertaking.
Case study: in the classroom, real cases that apply to the subject contents will be presented that
the students must analyze and solve in or outside the classroom.
Problems: In subjects referring to quantitative methods problems will be proposed that the
students must solve.

ASSESSMENT
1. Continuous assessment activities: They will score 50%.Exercises will be
undertaken and business cases will be analyzed during the class and outside it.
An MRP II task will be undertaken, which will be revised orally.
2. Final assessment activity: It will score 50%.Final exam consists of two parts:
- Theory: Will consist of test type questions and/or brief questions relating to
the theoretical concepts seen in class.
- Exercises: Will consist of problem solving. Only a non-programmable
calculator may be used for this part.
In order to pass the course, the student must pass the final exam.

READINGS
- VOLLMANN, T. E.., BERRY, W. L., WHYBARK, D. C. Y JACOBS, F. R., Manufacturing
Planning And Control Systems
For Supply Chain Management: The Definitive Guide for Professionals, McGraw Hill, Fifth
Edition, 2005.
- KRAJEWSKY, L.J.; RITZMAN, L.P.; MALHOTRA, M.K.: Operations Management.
Processes and Supply Chain. Ninth Edition, Pearson, 2008.