Project Management Intro

1. ME - 471
Production and Operations Management (2CH)
Delivered by
Dr. Muhammad Amjad
Associate Professor
amjad9002@uet.edu.pk

2. Course Learning Outcomes

3. Course contents
Functions of management, production systems, the inputs to a production
system and their relationship with the cost of production. Organizational
structure. Selection of plant location and factors affecting industrial
development in Pakistan. Productivity and factors contributing to productivity of
organizations. Implementation of productivity based comprehensive continuous
improvement system in production systems. Job production, intermittent batch
production, continuous production, group technology. Inventory management
techniques. Demand Forecasting using various time series techniques
incorporating seasonality, growth trends and randomness. Regression based
demand forecasting. Production planning and scheduling and capacity planning.
Introduction to push and pull based manufacturing systems, Plant Maintenance
strategies, their costing and relation to cost of production, total productive
maintenance, RAMS. Computer applications, Case studies

4. Books and references:
1. Operations Management by Jay Heizer, Barry Render,
Jagdesh Raja shekhar
2. Industrial Management by M.H. Zuberi and Nasir
Hayat
3. Work Systems: The Methods, Measurement and
Management of by Mikell P. Groover

5. Points of discussion
1. Project and Operations
2. Production and Productivity
3. CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement)
4. OBE, PLOs, CLOs

6. Points of discussion
5. Levels of Cognitive Domain
6. Contribution to the society
7. Societal Problems
8. Service to humanity
9. Most demanding skills after COVID