The document outlines the duties and responsibilities of a production manager, which include planning factory locations and layouts, purchasing equipment, production design, quality control, maintenance, and staff management. It notes emerging roles like strategic decision making, ERP implementation, process automation, research and development, and protecting the environment. Recent trends in production mentioned are focusing on the global marketplace, flexibility, time reduction, new technologies, environmental issues, lean production, and supply chain management.

2. Duties and responsibilities
 Planning the geographical location of factory.
 Purchasing production equipments
 Layout of equipments within the factory
 Designing production process and equipments
 Product design
 Designing production work and establishing work
standards
 Capacity planning
 Production planning and scheduling

3.  Production control
 Inventory management
 Supply chain management
 Quality control
 Production equipment maintenance and repair
 Measurement and monitoring of productivity
 Industrial relations
 Health and safety
 Staff selection and liaisoning
 Budgeting

4. Emerging role of production
managers
 Take part in strategic decision making of company.
 Take part in the implementation and use of enterprise
resource planning in the company.
 Automate processes as per the requirements of the
company
 Enhance the research and the development effort in
developing self relevant new technologies.
 Reduce lag in implementation of projects.
 Protect environment by implementing environment
protection norms.

5.  Act as a member of the concurrent engineering teams
in new product design and old product development.
 Develop long term strategic relationship with supplies
by acting as supply chain managers.
 Give more attention to technology management, in
view of joint ventures of multinational companies with
domestic companies.
 Be an internal quality auditor in quality certification
programming such as ISO 9000 series and ISO 14000.

6. Recent trends in production and
operations management
 Global market place
 Production/operations strategy
 Total quality management
 Flexibility
 Time reduction
 Technology
 Worker involvement
 Re-engineering
 Environmental issues
 Corporate downsizing
 Supply chain management
 Lean production