PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Objectives

1. To get acquainted with the basic aspects of Production Management. The course
attempts to discuss various important planning, organizing and controlling aspect of Operations
Management. Through text and case studies, this course prepares for a study of different
operational issues in manufacturing and services organizations.

Content:

1. Introduction to Operations Management (4.5 Hours)

(a) History (Pre Industrial Revolution Era, Industrial Revolution Era, today’s
Internet Revolution Era) (2 Hours)

(b) Difference between Production and Operation management (1.5 Hours)

(c) Objectives (1 Hour)

Learning Objective: The students would have realised that managing operations, although
having turned into a science, has it’s roots in the way mankind developed it’s thinking over
the centuries. The difference between Production Management and Operations Management is
made clear along with the need to study this subject.

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-1

2. Facility Location (4 Hours)

(a) Importance (0.5 Hours)

(b) Factors influencing location of a plant (Regional , Global) (2 Hours)

(c)
Typical examples (Location Rating , Centre of Gravity , Load Distance)
(1.5 Hours)
ASSIGNMENT-I

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-2

3. Facility (or Plant) lay out (4.5 Hours)

(a) Importance and Objectives (0.5 Hours)

(b) Types of Layouts (1.5 Hours)

(c) Principles of a good layout (1.0 Hour)

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 (d) Service Layouts (1.5 Hours)

Learning Objective: The long term success of an organisation, once it’s line of business and
markets have been decided is dependent on the location and layout of the organisation. These
two chapters make the students understand the importance of both these factors and also
certain techniques involved with respect to these factors.

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-3

CLASS TEST -I: (20 Marks) : (It covers from Topic No 1 to 3 of the syllabus)

4. Production Planning & Control (PPC) (6 Hours)

(a) Need and Importance of PPC (1.0 Hour)

(b) Production planning vs Production Control (1.0 Hour)

(c) Functions of PPC (2.0 Hours)

(d) Typical Examples (2.0 Hours)

Learning Objective: In this chapter, the students are introduced to the activities carried out in
the day to day running of operations in an organisation. Techniques followed are also
introduced to the students.

ASSIGNMENT-II

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-4

5. Materials Management (3.0 Hours)

(a) Importance of Materials function (0.25 Hour)

(b) Purchasing principles (0.25 Hour)

(c) Source selection and source development (1.5 Hours)

(d) EOQ and POQ methods (0.5 Hours)

(e) MRP Sheet (0.5 Hours)

Learning Objective: In this chapter students are introduced to one of the most important
functions in the running of an organisation. This chapter lays the foundations of what in later
semesters develops into Supply Chain Management.)

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-5

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6. Material Handling (2.5 Hours)

(a) Material handling – a necessary (0.5 Hours)

(b) Principles of good Material Handling System (1.0 Hour)

(c) Material Handling equipment (1.0 Hour)

Learning Objective: The students are introduced to different methods of handling material.
including safety issues in the running of an organisation.)

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-6

7. Quality Management (5 Hours)

(a) Importance of quality (1.0 Hour)

(b) Stages of quality development (0.5 Hours)

(c) Control Charts (XmR , Xbar , nP , c) (2.0 Hours)

(d) Overview of ISO 9000 Quality Management System (1.0 Hour)

(e) Baldridge Quality Award Criteria (0.5 Hours)

ASSIGNMENT-III

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-7

CLASS TEST -II: (20 Marks) : (It covers from Topic No 1 to 7 of the syllabus)

8. Maintenance (6 Hours)

(a) Function of maintenance (1.0 Hour)

(b) Breakdown Maintenance (1.0 Hour)

(c) MTBF, MTTR, Reliability (1.0 Hour)

(d) Preventive maintenance (1.0 Hour)

(e) TPM (Examples of OEE) (1.0 Hour)

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-8

9. Work Study (4.5 Hours)

(a) Method Study (0.5 Hours)

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 (b) Process Charts (0.5 Hours)

(c) Exercises (1.0 Hour)

(d) Time Study (0.5 Hours)

(e) Standard Time (0.5 Hours)

Learning Objective: In this chapter, students will be introduced to the “Human Element” in
the running of operations of an Organisation. The time and work examples will give them
insight into how people affect and get affected by different processes in the organisation)

ASSIGNMENT-IV

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-9

10. Modern Techniques on Operations Management (5.0 Hours)

(a) 5S (1.0 Hour)

(b) Poka Yoke (0.5 Hours)

(c) Kaizen (0.5 Hours)

(d) Quality Circles (0.5 Hours)

(e) Six Sigma (1.5 Hours)

(f) JIT (overview) (0.5 Hours)

(g) 7 types of wastes (0.5 Hours)

Learning Objective: Chapters 7 , 8 and 10 together lay the foundation for the subject titled
“Total Quality Management”. These chapters are important for the student in terms of
understanding how the science of operations has developed and will develop in the next
decade.)

CASE STUDY PRESENTATION:-10

TOTAL (45 Hours)

Text Books:

1. Operations Management – Latest Edition, Authors: Roberta Russel and Bernard

Taylor, Publisher: Wiley Inida.

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Reference Books:

1. Modern Production / Operations Management - Eighth Edition, Authors: Elwood S.

Buffa and Rakesh K. Sarin, Publisher: John Wiley and Sons

2. Operations Management by William J. Stevenson (2008): McGraw Hill

3. Operations Management(9th Edition) by Jay Heizer and Barry Render

4. Martinich: Production and Operations Management: An Applied Modern Approach,

Wiley, (1999)

5. Operations Management (9th Edition) by Lee J. Krajewski, Larry P. Ritzman, and

Manoj K. Malhotra (2010): Addison-Wesley

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