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 436-345 Operations Analysis and Management

Credit Points

7.1

Coordinator

Assoc. Professor E. J. A. Armarego

Prerequisites

436-204 Engineering Economics and Statistical Analysis or equivalent

Semester

2

Contact

26 hours of lectures and 10 hours of tutorial/practice classes

Subject Description

On completion students should; understand the functional units in manufacturing firms, the design and characteristics of productive systems and the product life cycle, economic analysis of production and modern manufacturing strategies; be able to analyse and design production and assembly flow lines for discrete part manufacture; be able to apply network analysis to project management.

Topics covered include; functional units of manufacturing firms, classification and characteristics of productive systems, product life cycle. Economic analysis of production. Analyses of automated flow lines, assembly line balancing and design. Network analysis for project management.

Assessment

One examination not exceeding three-hours at the end of semester, a tutorial problem sheet, assignments of up to 15 pages each



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