436-365 Operations Analysis

Students will be expected to be familiar with the material of 200-level mathematics, 436-203 Manufacturing Studies 1.

Upon 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; and 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; and network analysis for project management.

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.