Production Planning and Scheduling
Aims
- Students should know the fundamentals of Production Planning and Scheduling.
- Moreover they should understand, be able to apply or extend the basic quantitative models in this field.
Information
- Forecasting (a.o. Holt and Winter's methods)
- Aggregate planning (LP models)
- Lotsize for time dependent demand
- MRP
- Scheduling (job shop, flow shop, open shop, single & parallel machines)
- Project scheduling (PERT, CPM)
- Facility layout
- Quality
- Relability, maintenance and warranties (age replacement model, blok replacement)
Assessment
- Assignments, essays, ... (35%)
- Written (re-)examination with essay questions (65%)At least a 4.5 schould be scored for the written exam to pass the subject.
- At least a 5 schould be scored for the written exam to pass the subject.
Materials
S. Nahmias, Production and Operations Analysis, Mc Graw-Hill Int. 6th Ed. 2013
2014/2015