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IND E 430 Manufacturing Scheduling and Inventory
In this course, students will learn the basics of manufacturing system design, including forecasting, inventory, and manufacturing systems control.
Co-/Pre-requisites: IND E 337 and IND E 410, or permission of instructor.
Textbook: Hopp, Wallace J. and Mark L. Spearman (2008).
Factory Physics, 3rd
edition, Irwin McGraw-Hill, Boston.
- Topics Covered:
- Factory Physics?
- Inventory Control: From EOQ to ROP
- The MRP Crusad
- The JIT Revolution
- What Went Wrong
- A Science of Manufacturing
- Basic Factory Dynamics
- Variability Basics
- The Corrupting Influence of Variability
- Push and Pull Production Systems
- Types of Production Systems
- Environmentally-Conscious Manufacturing
- Energy and Manufacturing
- The Human Element in Operations Management
- Forecasting
- Production Scheduling
- Supply Chain Management
- Synthesis-Pulling It All Together
- Inventory Control: From EOQ to ROP