208-305 Production and Management Techniques

Availability

Gilbert Chandler campus

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Dr Said Ajlouni

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Five 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; and facility location and layout design.

Assessment

Three assignments of 2000 words (20% each); 2-hour examination (40%).



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