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ME 711: Manufacturing Planning and Control

Contents:

Overview of manufacturing systems and various issues of interest: Assembly Line, Repetitive batch manufacturing, Cellular manufacturing, FMS, JIT, CIM

Preplanning: Forecasting, Economic analysis, Aggregate planning, Capacity planning ,Inventory planning.

Decision making in design of manufacturing systems : Group Technology, Line balancing, Plant layout.

Operations planning : MRP, MRP II, Hierarchical planning systems, JIT systems, FMS

Operation and control: Lot sizing decisions, production scheduling, line of balance, quality planning and control, cost planning and control, productivity planning and control and applications of theory of constraints.

Simulation: Simulation analysis of manufacturing systems.

Road map to World Class Manufacturing Systems: Ideal Manufacturing, Intelligent Manufacturing and Agile Manufacturing Systems.

Applications of recent developments in IT including ERP, e-Business, Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) and Virtual Manufacturing: Concepts, Justification and Status of development and implementation.

Case Studies
 

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