This document provides a course of contents for a Production and Operation Management course. It outlines 10 chapters that will be covered: 1) Concepts of production, forecasting and decision making; 2) Designing products, processes and services; 3) Facility location and layout planning; 4) Conversion processes; 5) Production planning and scheduling; 6) Inventory control and material requirement planning; 7) Managing for quality; 8) Maintenance management; 9) Productivity management; and 10) Improving productivity, quality and competitiveness through techniques like Just in Time, Total Quality Management, and flexible manufacturing systems. The course will include numerical problems related to topics like linear programming, transportation, queuing theory and networking. Students will be asked

1. Production and Operation Management Course of Contents BY BIRODH ADHIKARI, SSMC

3. Production Function

4. Production Vs. Productivity

5. Production System

6. Evolution of Production Management (History)

7. Strategic perspective of Production Management

8. Forecasting Approach and Model

9. Game Theory

11. Product Development Process

12. Manufacturing Process Technology

14. Need for facility location planning

15. General procedure for facility location planning

16. Facility location models

17. Behavioral impact in facility location

18. Layout concept

19. Basic Layouts: process layout, product layout, fixed position layout and combination layout.

20. Behavioral aspect in layout designing

23. Aggregate planning process.

24. Master production schedule and behavioral considerations.

25. Intermittent system and scheduling process.

26. Scheduling and control process.

27. Loading

28. Priority sequencing

29. Scheduling for Job-Shop, batch and mass production.

31. Inventory System

32. Inventory Control Procedure- EOQ

33. ABC Inventory Planning System

34. Material Requirement Planning- Concept and elements

35. Manufacturing resource planning and implementation.

36. Purchasing

37. Materials Handling

39. Quality Control

40. Techniques of quality control

41. Approaches to quality improvement- Quality Circle, Zero defect program

42. Traditional and Statistical quality control.

43. Acceptance Sampling.

44. Control charts for variables and attributes ( X, R, P)

45. ISO 9001:2000

47. Types of Maintenance management- Corrective, scheduled, preventive and predictive.

48. Choice of maintenance alternatives

50. Types and level of productivity

51. Factors affecting productivity

52. Productivity measurement and analysis

54. Just In Time (JIT)

55. Participatory management

56. Total Quality management (TQM)

57. Production process change: resistance and remedy

58. KANBAN system

59. Kaizan system

60. Flexible manufacturing system dynamics

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