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436-447 Optimisation for Productive Systems 2 | |
Credit Points | 7.14 |
Coordinator | Dr A. Wirth |
Prerequisites | 619-001 Statistics for Engineers or equivalent and level 2 Mathematics |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | 18 lectures and 18 hours of tutorial/practice classes |
Subject Description | Upon completion students should be able to model and solve a wide range of probabilistic decision making problems for productive systems such as service facility configuration, inventory reorder points, lot-sizing, equipment replacement and production planning by applying queuing, simulation and other stochastic techniques, using a range of software tools including a simulation language. Topics covered include; queuing models for service facilities, simulation of productive systems. Inventory management and material requirements planning. Equipment replacement and Markov processes. Production planning under risk. Demand forecasting. |
Assessment | One examination not exceeding three-hours, assignments to a maximum of 5000 words or equivalent |
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