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 791-024 Production Management Techniques

Credit Points

7.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Mr L Gordon-Brown

Semester

1, repeat 2 (view timetable)

Contact

4 hours per week

Subject Description

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

The content includes: 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 queuing theory; production and process planning and scheduling; simulation techniques; project network management; facility location and layout design.

Assessment

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

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