Faculty in Production & Operations Management

Faculty in Production & Operations Management

Understand and apply the foundational concepts of Production and Operations Management,

including planning, control, and capacity planning, along with the strategic scope and trends in

the field.

• Make informed decisions on plant location and layout and select appropriate production processes

to meet specific volume and variety requirements, integrating facility objectives and layout

planning principles.

• Utilize forecasting techniques and scheduling tools effectively for operational efficiency and

implement maintenance management strategies to ensure continuous production operations.

• Improve productivity through work-study techniques and ensure product quality by applying

statistical quality control principles, including using control charts for process monitoring.

Preferred candidate profile

DETAILED SYLLABUS:

Unit 1: Introduction to Production & Operations Management

• Introduction to Production & Operations Management: Definition, Need, Scope
• Key decisions of Production & Operations Management
• 5 Ps of Production Management
• Trends in production/operations management (Case Study Based)
• Operation Strategies Definition, relevance, strategy formulation process
• Order qualifying and order winning attribute: Concept & Cases

Unit 2: Production Planning & Control (6L)

• Production Planning and Control: Concept, Functions of Production Planning and Production

Control

• Capacity Planning: Definition, measures of capacity (input and output)
• Basic Concepts of MRP I & MRP II, MPSUnit 3: Plant Location & Layout
• Location Decisions & Models: Facility Location Objective, factors that influence location decision
• Location evaluation methods- factor rating method.
• Layout Decision: Layout planning Objectives of good layout, importance
• Different types of layouts (Process, Product, Group technology, fixed position layout).

Unit 3: Plant Location & Layout

• Location Decisions & Models: Facility Location Objective, factors that influence location decision
• Location evaluation methods- factor rating method.
• Layout Decision: Layout planning Objectives of good layout, importance
• Different types of layouts (Process, Product, Group technology, fixed position layout).

Unit 4: Production Process

• Process Selection: Definition, Characteristics that influence the choice of alternative processes

(volume and variety)

• Type of processes- job shop, batch, mass and continuous (basic concepts)
• Product-process Design Matrix
• Services design matrix
• Technology issues in process design
• Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM).

Unit 5: Forecasting

• Definition, types, qualitative (grassroots, market research and Delphi method)
• Quantitative approach (simple moving average method, weighted moving average) Numerical

Problems

• Scheduling: operation scheduling, goals of short-term scheduling
• Job sequencing (FCFS, SPT, EDD, LPT, CR) Basic Concept
• Gantt charts.

Unit 6: Maintenance Management

• Definition, need and types of maintenance management
• Equipment life cycle (Bathtub curve)
• Lean production definition of lean production, lean demand-pull logic
• Waste in operations, elements that address the elimination of waste
• 2 card Kanban production control system.

Unit 7: Work Study

• Work study & method study
• Work measurement, performance rating, standard time, work sampling
• Numerical problems

Unit 8: Statistical Quality Control

• Statistical Quality control: Basic concepts, Variations in process (common & assignable causes)
• Control charts: Variable measures (mean and range chart)
• Numerical problems