Industrial Management - 3GUC0908

Goal(s)

• Understand a company's planning system
• Understand the principles of product quality, production and service
• Understand the impacts of variability on quality
• Understand environmental impacts of a product by analysing its life cycle

Content(s)

The aim of this course is to present tools which allow companies to be efficient in areas such as quality, cost, deadlines and environment.

• Production Management (Lectures = 10.5 hours, Tutorials = 9 hours, Practical work = 4.5 hours)
  
  In this section traditional tools will be presented and then applied in the tutorials and practical work.
  • Planning levels
  • Management of production resources: MPR I et II
  • Just in Time (JIT) principles (Kanban, SMED, 5S...)
  • Stock management: Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
    
• Management of product quality, production and service (Lectures = 9 hours, Tutorials = 7.5 hours)
  
  This section consists of a presentation of the concepts needed and applied for a quality system in production.
  • Continual improvement principles
  • Measurement System Analysis
  • Statistical Process Control

• Environmental Management (Lectures = 3 hours, Tutorials = 7.5 hours)
  
  In this section, theoretical points will be studied concerning the definition of environmental impacts caused by products, services, systems etc. Different types of impacts will be studied and also the reasons for calculating them (market, customers, design, legislation, eco-labels etc...) using a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach. The tutorials will allow students, through a concrete example of "rechargeable batteries or not", to use a LCA software used in companies to calculate environmental impacts. This exercise will show and highlight the limits of using the LCA method and the difficulties encountered.

No prerequisites needed