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TPMM06 Analysing and Improving Manufacturing Operations, 6 ECTS credits.

/Analysing and Improving Manufacturing Operations/

For: IMM INN MEC

Prel. scheduled hours: 32

Rec. self-study hours: 128

Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Industrial Engineering and Management

Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
After this course the student should be able to:

understand the relationship between analysis and improvement of manufacturing

operations and the value processes of the firm.
use the most common analysis tools and approaches.
use the most common improvement tools and approaches.
use simulation for analysing and improving manufacturing operations.

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Basic course in Production and Opreations Management

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission
requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the
programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:
The lectures deal with the theoretical approaches and the seminars and laboratory sessions deal
with a project.

Course contents:
Analysing Manufacturing Opreations: Anlayses of lead-time, capacity, material flow, customer
and manufacturing orders, delivery service, inventories, informaiton, and from a systems
perspective.

Improving Manufacturing Operations: Value-bases process enhancements through

improvements in time, cost, fexibility an dquality, with a special focus on setup-time reduction.

Simulation as Support for Analysing and Improving Operations: Relationships among lead-
time, capacity, material flow, inventories, orders, delivery service, costs, information, and
plannning strategy.

Course literature:
Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem and Zemel: Managing Business Process Flows,
Prentice-Hall 2005.
Additional handouts.

Examination:

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Seminar project 4 ECTS

Oral examination 2 ECTS

Course language is English.

Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: Martin Kylinger
Examiner: Ou Tang
Link to the course homepage at the department

Linköping Institute of Technology

Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se

Last updated: 04/28/2010

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