Production and Flow Management - 4XMI0815

Goals

The objective of this course is to present the major concepts of production management, on one hand, and the modeling and operations management, on the other hand.

For production management part, we first explain what it is, what decisions are associated with it and how it operates, mainly in the manufacturing of goods. We then address three main themes in production management: inventory management, production planning and production scheduling. In inventory management, we discuss the classical invenroty control models such as EOQ, base stock and order-up-to level models. In production planning, we discuss the MRP methods and discuss optimization techniques present in the APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling). Finally, in scheduling, we present the classic al workshop structures and the task scheduling problems associated with them.

As part of modeling and operations management, we first define the different types of flows (push flow, pull flow, ...). Next, we present an analytical modeling method, namely the Petri nets. Finally we discuss the performance evaluation of complex systems through simulation of discrete event systems. We use the ARENA simulation software for the performance evaluation of example production systems.