Course code: wb3424-04

Course name: Production Organisation Principles

This concerns a Course

ECTS credit points: 2

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology

Section of Transport Technology

Lecturer(s): Veeke, dr.ir. H.P.M.

Tel.:  015 - 27 82706

Catalog data:

Organisation structures, performance, planning, scheduling, projects

Course year:

MSc 1^st year

Course language:

English

Semester:

1B

Hours per week:

2

Other hours:

Assessment:

written exam

Assessment period:

(see academic calendar)

Prerequisites (course codes):

Follow up (course codes):

Detailed description of topics:

This course focuses on production organisation structures. Between the extreme structures of flow shop and job shop there is a continuum of other structures.

Characteristics and practical selection criteria for each specific structure are explained. The relation between notions like effectiveness, productivity and flexibility are studied.

Control principles are highlighted by the distinction between function control (e.g. planning) and process control (e.g. scheduling, feed back, feed forward). The use of simulation in control functions is explained. Finally decision support for project planning is explained by classical approaches like CPM and PERT, but also by new approaches using simulation.

Course material:

• Lecture notes

References from literature:

• To be determined

Remarks assessment, entry requirements, etc.:

Learning goals:

The student must be able to:

1. formulate practical industrial activities in terms of functions

2. recognize aspect- and subsystems

3. recognize the different function groups of the steady state model

4. explain the differences between function, process and task

5. position the ‘conceptual models’ of DSA in the soft systems approach

6. recognize the management roles of operational and innovation control in an organization

Computer use:

None

Laboratory project(s):

Not applicable

Design content:

Not applicable

Percentage of design:  0%