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Engineering Tripos Part IIA, 3E10: Operations Management for Engineers, 2019-20

Engineering Tripos Part IIA, 3E10: Operations Management for Engineers, 2019-20

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Leader

Dr F Erhun-Oguz

Lecturer

Dr F Erhun-Oguz

Lab Leader

Dr F Erhun-Oguz

Timing and Structure

Lent term. 16 lectures and 4 examples classes.

Aims

The aims of the course are to:

  • Introduce Operations Management to students coming specifically from an engineering background.
  • Give a foundation course for any engineering student who aims to join large manufacturing firms or go into management consultancy.

Objectives

As specific objectives, by the end of the course students should be able to:

  • Understand the role, objectives and activities of Operations Management
  • Be familiar with the main Operations Management concepts and techniques, which they can apply in practice.

Content

Operations management is concerned with the processes by which organisations deliver goods and services. The course will be covering the basic concepts and techniques used in managing modern manufacturing and service operations, from the composition of a manufacturing system, to planning and scheduling at factory level, and the coordination of supplier networks

  • Process Fundamentals, Types of Manufacturing and Service Operations.
  • Inventory Management.
  • Forecasting.
  • Machine-level Scheduling and Assembly Line Balancing.
  • Factory-level Scheduling and MRP Systems.
  • Toyota Production System and Lean Thinking.
  • Quality Management, Six Sigma and Project Management
  • Supply Chain Management

Further notes

TEACHING METHODS

A mixture of:

  • Interactive lecture sessions
  • Group discussion of case studies
  • In-class exercises

Coursework

To be announced in lectures.

There is no Full Technical Report (FTR) associated with this module.

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Practical information:

  • Sessions will take place in [Location], during week(s) [xxx].
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Full Technical Report:

There is no Full Technical Report (FTR) associated with this module.

Booklists

Please see the Booklist for Part IIA Courses for references for this module.

Examination Guidelines

Please refer to Form & conduct of the examinations.

UK-SPEC

This syllabus contributes to the following areas of the UK-SPEC standard:

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