Production Planning and Scheduling


Aims

  • Students should know the fundamentals of Production Planning and Scheduling.
  • Students should understand, be able to apply or extend the basic quantitative models in this field.

Information

  • 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%)

Materials

  • S. Nahmias, Production and Operations Analysis, Mc Graw-Hill Int. 6th Ed. 2013