INSTRUCTION DIVISION

SECOND SEMESTER 2016-2017

Course Handout Part II
Date: 12-01-2017
In addition to part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives further
specific details regarding the course.

Course No. : MF F242

Course Title : MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT
Instructor-in-Charge : AMRITA PRIYADARSHINI

Scope and Objective of the Course:

Scope
To provide a good fundamental concepts in manufacturing / operations management
To promote the importance of decision making in manufacturing / operations management
To study the decision making in design, planning and control of conversion process / manufacturing
systems
To develop decision making skills in conversion process / manufacturing systems
To make proficient in manufacturing / operations management
Objectives
To understand the role of operations management in the overall business strategy of the firm.
To understand the interdependence of the operating system with other key functional areas of the firm.
To identify and evaluate the key factors and the interdependence of these factors in the design of
effective operating systems.
To identify and evaluate a range of tools appropriate for analysis of operating systems of the firm.
To identify and evaluate comparative approaches to operations management in a global context.
To understand the application of operations management policies and techniques to the service sector as
well as manufacturing firms.

Textbooks:
1. Heizer Jay, Render Barry and Rajashekhar, Operations Management, 9 th Edition, Pearson, New Delhi

Reference books
1. Russell R.S. & Taylor, B.W., Operations Management: Quality and Competitiveness in a Global Environment,
5th Edition, John Wiley and Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2006
2. Mahadevan B., Operations Management : Theory and Practice, 2 nd Edition, Paerson, 2010
3. Chase, R.B., Aquilano, N.J., and Jacobs, F.R., Operation Management for Competitive Advantage,
11th Edition, McGraw-Hill,
Course Plan:
Chapter in
Lecture
Learning objectives Topics to be covered the Text
No.
Book
1 To gain an Introduction: Operations / manufacturing, 1 (T1)
understanding of decision making in an organization /
the Production and conversion process
Operations function
for manufacturing
and service
2 Operations Strategy: A global view of 2 (T1)
organizations
operations, competitive priorities,
operations strategy
6-8 Understand sources Forecasting: Types, importance, steps, 3 (T1)
of demand approaches, methods
variability
Able to pick the
appropriate
forecasting model
9-11 Understand the Product planning: Product strategy 4 (T1)
concept of product options, product life cycle, product
life cycle development, Quality function
Understand the deployment, application of decision trees
application of the to product design
steps in product
design
Apply the concept
for generation of
new idea
12-13 Understand the Process planning: Process design, process 6 (T1)
strategic technologies, process analysis and design,
importance of selection of equipment and technology
process selection
Can explain the
influence that
process selection
will have on
organizations
performance
14-15 Identify and Facilities location: Selecting the 10, 7 (T1)
explain major geographic region, costing alternative
factors that affect locations, scoring models, geometric
locations decisions models, Locating multiple facilities,
Able to select Location of facilities on networks
appropriate
methods of
evaluating location
alternatives
16-17 Understand the Layout of Facilities: Types of layout, 8 (T1)
strategic process, product, hybrid, fixed-position
importance of and specialized layouts
layout decisions
Able to discuss
important issues
related to various
types of layout
18-19 Describe methods Capacity planning: Design and effective Supplement
of measuring capacity, capacity and strategy, managing (T1)
capacity, planning demand, Break even analysis, applying
capacity, and decision trees to capacity planning
calculating capacity
utilization.
20-21 Explain what Scheduling: Hierarchy of planning 12, 14 (T1)
scheduling involves decision, planning process, approaches for
and the importance aggregate planning, master schedule,
of good scheduling short-term schedules, control of schedules
Discuss scheduling
needs in job shops
22-23 Discuss the main Inventory control: Functions of 11 (T1)
requirements for inventory, type of inventory, inventory
effective inventory management, inventory models
management
Describe the role of
basic models in
controlling
production capacity

23 Develop product Material Requirements Planning: MRP 13 (T1)

structure structure, MRP management, lot sizing
Build a gross techniques
requirements plan
24 Understand JIT and lean operations: JIT, TPS and 15, 11 (T1)
concepts such as lean operations
Just in Time
manufacturing and
Lean
manufacturing and
apply them to the
process
Understand impact
of JIT on service
and manufacturing
25 Explain how HRM Human resource and job design, 9 (T1)
contributes to an Finance management: Human resource
organization's strategy for competitive advantage, labour
performance planning, job design
Identify the
responsibilities of
 human resource
departments,
Finance
management

26-27 Analyze and Application of Flexsim: Overview of

experiment with the Flexsim, importance/need, features,
processes in a applications
virtual setting,
reducing the time
and cost
requirements
associated with
physical testing

Total number of lectures = 27

Evaluation Scheme:
Weightage Nature of
Component Duration Date & Time
(%) Component
Test-I 1 hour 20 28/2, 2.30 - 3.30 PM Closed Book

Test-II 1 hour 20 31/3, 2.30 - 3.30 PM Closed Book

Presentations/Projects 20 Open Book

Comprehensive 3 hours 40 09/05 AN Closed Book

Examination

Chamber Consultation Hour: Will be announced in the class.

Notices: Will be displayed on CMS only

Make-up Policy: Only genuine cases will be granted make up.

NOTE: The border cases in final grading will be decided based on mainly class room attendance and attentiveness in
the classroom.

INSTRUCTOR-IN-CHARGE
MF F242