OM (B-TECH mechanical engineering 7-8th)

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

NEED AND SCOPE OF OPERATION MANAGEMENT: Types of production system and their characteristics, productivity definition, types and measurements

PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT: Steps involved in product design and development, considerations of technical, ergonomic, aesthetic, economic and time factors. Use of concurrent engineering in product design and development. Discussion of case studies. Feasibility and locational analysis.

PLANNING AND FORECASTING: Role of market survey and market research in pre-planning, long medium and short range forecasting, objective and techniques of forecasting, smoothening and revision of forecast

PRODUCTION PLANNING: Production planning objective and functions, Bill of material, Capacity and man power requirement planning, operation analysis and process planning, long range planning, aggregate planning; Objective, Strategies, graphical and mathematical techniques of aggregate planning, master production scheduling, MRP and MRPII Systems PRODUCTION CONTROL: Capacity control and priority control, production control functions; Routing, scheduling, dispatching, expediting and follow up. Techniques of production control in job shop production, batch production and mass production systems,

MATERIAL MANAGEMENT: Objectives, scope and functions of material management, planning, procurement, storing, ending and inventory control. Purpose of inventory, inventory cost, inventory control systems, Selective inventory control systems, Determination of EOQ, Lead time and reorder point. Methods of physical stock control

QUALITY CONTROL: Meaning of quality and quality control, quality of design, quality of conformance and quality of performance, functions of quality control. Introduction to statistical quality control-control charts and sampling plans

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS: Introduction to MIS, Steps in designing MIS, Role of Computers in MIS MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS: Type of maintenance, objective of maintenance, Planned maintenance strategies, preventive maintenance, condition monitoring and total productive maintenance