Production and Operations Management

Lecturer:

Michal Kavan (gar.)

Tutor:

Michal Kavan (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Management and Economics

Synopsis:

Course provides ways to analyze manufacturing systems in terms of material flow and storage, information flow, capacities, and times and durations of events. Fundamental topics include probability, inventory and queuing models, forecasting, optimization, process analysis, and linear and dynamic systems. Factory planning and scheduling topics include flow planning, bottleneck characterization, buffer and batch-size tactics, seasonal planning, and dynamic behaviour of production systems. Subject covers a set of integrative operations and manufacturing topics or issues such as leadership, implementation of lean operations, or other improvements. Subject seeks to educate a new generation of versatile innovators by integrating entrepreneurship, creativity, design, prototyping, manufacturing, and systems with new, leading-edge techniques and processes for manufacturing. Student works on long-term project in collaboration with field practitioners and experts in relevant field. Topics covered include design for affordability, manufacture, sustainability, and strategies for working effectively with customers. Subject covers modern tools and methods for product development and manufacturing.

Requirements:

content-area of the exam: particular curriculum chapters .

Syllabus of lectures:

Analyzing of the manufacturing system in terms of material flow and storage, information flow, capacities, and times and durations of events. Probability, inventory and queuing models, forecasting, optimization, process analysis, linear and dynamic systems. Factory planning and scheduling topics include flow planning, bottleneck characterization, buffer and batch-size tactics, seasonal planning, dynamic behaviour of production systems. Subject covers a set of integrative operations and manufacturing topics or issues such as leadership, implementation of lean operations, or other improvements. Integrating entrepreneurship, creativity, design, prototyping, manufacturing, systems with new - leading-edge techniques and processes for manufacturing. Student works long-term project in collaboration with field practitioners in relevant field. Topics covered design for affordability, manufacture, sustainability, methods for working effectively. Modern tools and methods for product manufacturing

Syllabus of tutorials:

Consultation form

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Kavan M.: Výrobní a provozní management, Grada Publishing, 2002.

Kavan M.: Výrobní management, Ediční středisko ČVUT, 2006.

Dilworth, J.B.: Production and operations management. London: McGRAW - Hill, Internati-onal Editions, 1996.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

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Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: