Production and Operation Management

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Free Online Course: Production and Operation Management provided by Swayam is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 12 weeks long. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Swayam. Production and Operation Management is taught by Prof. Rajat Agrawal.

Overview
  • Production and operations Management will introduce students to the many operations topics and issues faced by leading organizations, both in service and in manufacturing. The goal of this course is to help students gain an understanding of what operations management involves, how it relates to other functional areas in an organization, the types of problems that are faced by operations managers, and common decision-making approaches.INTENDED AUDIENCE : 1. Management 2. SciencePREREQUISITES : NilINDUSTRY SUPPORT : BHEL, THDC, Hero Motocorp, UJVNL, Maruti, etc.

Syllabus
  • Week 1 : L1 - Introduction to Operations Management;
    L2 - Operations Strategy in a global economy ;
    L3 - Opera n tions Management and Productivity,
    L4 - Types and Characteristics of Manufacturing and Service Systems
    L5 - Product Desig

    Week 2 : L1 - Introduction to Forecasting
    L2 - Introduction to Time-series forecasts
    L3 - Extrapolative methods I
    L4 - Extrapolative methods I I
    L5- Forecasting Error

    Week 3 : L1 - Causal Methods of forecasting
    L2 - Qualitative Methods of Forecasting
    L3 - Introduction to Inventory Management
    L4 - Various costs involved in inventory management
    L5 - EOQ Models of Inventory Management

    Week 4 : L1 - Various variations of EOQ
    L2 - Inventory Models with Uncertain Demand -I
    L3 - Inventory Models with Uncertain Demand -II
    L4 - Miscellaneous Systems and Issues
    L5 - Inventory Control and Supply Chain Management

    Week 5 : L1 - Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning
    L2 - Aggregate planning Techniques
    L3 - Material requirement Planning
    L4 - Improvements in the MRP system
    L5 - Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

    Week 6 : L1 - Nature of Quality
    L2 - Evolution of Quality Management
    L3 - Modern Quality Management
    L4 - Total Quality Management
    L5 - Statistical Concepts in Quality Control

    Week 7 : L1 - Acceptance Sampling
    L2 - 7 QC Tools
    L3 - Introduction to Six Sigma
    L4 - Quality Function Deployment
    L5 - Quality issues in Services

    Week 8 : L1- Facility Capacity
    L2- Facility Location
    L3- Facility Layout I
    L4- Line Balancing
    L5- Cellular Layout

    Week 9 : L1 - Service Facility Layout
    L2 - JIT Manufacturing
    L3 - Lean Manufacturing
    L4 - Kanban Production System
    L5 - Case Discussions on JIT and Lean Philosophy

    Week 10 : L1 - Maintenance Management
    L2 - Total Productive Maintenance
    L3 - Introduction to Project Management
    L4 - PERT and CPM
    L5 - Project Risk Management

    Week 11 : L1 - Process Analysis
    L2 - Job Design and work Measurement
    L3 - Manufacturing Process selection and Design
    L4 - Service Process Selection and Design
    L5 - Business process Reengineering

    Week 12 : L1 - Supply Chain Strategy
    L2 - Measuring Supply Chain performance
    L3 - Case discussion of Supply Chain Management
    L4 - Contemporary Issues in Operations management
    L5 - Framework for Operations Strategy Formulation