Production planning and control
D Kennedy
4 points * 26 lecture hours, 26 tutorial/laboratory hours * First semester * Caulfield
Operational planning and control, demand forecasting, time series, causal. Aggregate planning and master scheduling. MRP, MRPII inventory analysis, price quantity discounting, economic lot sizing, sequencing and scheduling, line balancing. JIT planning and control, production smoothing, process design, job standardisation, kanban control. Operational performance measures, productivity performance measures. Decision support systems, concepts and principles.
Assessment
Examinations (3 hours): 40% * Class test, PROSIM report, DSS reports, DSS user manual, assignments: 60%
Recommended texts
Bedworth D D and others Integrated production control systems management analysis, design 2nd edn, Wiley, 1987