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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture : Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture

791-024 Production Management Techniques

Credit Points:

7.5

Coordinator:

Mr L Gordon-Brown

Contact:

4 hours per week.

Objectives:

The objective of this subject is to develop a students ability to use a range of decision support systems and qualitative techniques for production and management problems.

Content:

Control of cost, budget and cost benefit analysis; maintenance control; material and capacity requirements planning; production scheduling and information systems; production facility design and optimisation; decision making and resource allocation approaches; linear programming and tabular programming; inventory control and marginal analysis; service levels and queueing theory; production and process planning and scheduling; simulation techniques; project network management; facility location and layout design.

Assessment:

Three assignment of 2000 words (20% each); two hour examination (40%).
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