436-365 Operations Analysis

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Students will be expected to be familiar with the material of level 200 Mathematics, 436-204 Manufacturing Studies 1.

Semester

Contact

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 solve production mix problems; 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. Heuristic and optimal analyses for automated flow lines, assembly line balancing and their design. Linear programming applied to production problems, integer programming models. Integer programming models for assembly line balancing and scheduling. 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. Students will be notified of the weighting of assessment components at the beginning of semester.