Courses Handbook 2008

310302 (v.1) Production Planning and Management 302


Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The aim of this unit is to provide the skills needed to effectively tackle the range of planning and management decisions that arise in manufacturing systems. A key objective of a manufacturing system is the timely production of products that conform to specifications while minimising costs. Strategic performance measures are cost, quality, flexibility and delivery. Operational efficiency depends on many factors: quality of human resources; location and capacity of plants; choice of technology; organisation of production systems; planning and control systems used for coordinating the day-to-day activities. Planning and management decisions considered include strategic (long-term), tactical (medium-term) and operational (short-term). Models including mixed integer linear programs and dynamic programming are discussed. The nature of the problems faced by a production manager depends on the characteristics of the market that the facility is competing in. Different types of manufacturing systems will be studied, including job-shop flow, batch shop models, flow lines and continuous processes systems. Case studies are used to highlight and expand the understanding and application of the topics discussed in the unit.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010100 Mathematical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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