Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to: (i) argue on the integration of operations strategies into the firm’s overall strategy for competitive advantage; (ii) αpply tools for location decision making; (iii) apply appropriate methods and tools to aid the decision making on strategic capacity planning and organizational design issues; (iv) apply effective tools for the design and management of the production process.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Introduction to the designing of production.
Facility Location: Factors affecting location decisions; a scoring rule for location decision making; mathematical models for facility location planning.
Strategic Capacity Planning: measuring capacity; factors that determine capacity; capacity expansion strategies; capacity planning and evaluation methods.
Process Selection: project processes; job-shop processes; batch flow processes; line processes; continuous flow processes; methods for evaluating process and technology alternatives.
Process Design and Facility Layout: design of repetitive processes; design of functional layouts; design of cellular processes.
Materials Handling Planning: deterministic and stochastic materials handling systems.
Design of Work Systems: job design; methods analysis and improvement; work study and measurement; learning and experience curves.
Organizational Design: simple organization; functional organization; divisional organization; matrix organization; horizontal, vertical and spatial differentiation; centralization, coordination and control.
Business Plan: concepts and development.
Keywords
production management, capacity planning, business plan, process planning and layout.
Description
The evaluation of students (FG)(range 0-10) is based on a combination of the following marks:
Final examination paper (FE), Midterm examination paper (ME), assignment (AA)
The evaluation formula is as follows:
If FE<5, then: FG = FE
If FE ≥ 5 and ME< 5 then: FG = 5+(FE-5)*0,6+(AA-5)*0,4 (no negative marks)
If FE and ME ≥ 5, then: FG = 5+(FE-5)*0,6+(ME-5)*0,4 + (AA-5)*0,4 (no negative marks)
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Αδαμίδης E., Στρατηγική Διοίκηση Παραγωγής, Κλειδάριθμος, 2009.
Παππής Κ., Διοίκηση Παραγωγής - Σχεδίαση Συστημάτων Παραγωγής, Εκδόσεις Αθ. Σταμούλης, 2006.
Additional bibliography for study
Γεωργιάδης Π., «Σημειώσεις από τις πανεπιστημιακές παραδόσεις του μαθήματος Οργάνωση και Διοίκηση Εργοστασίων», Θεσσαλονίκη, 2008
Βλάχος Δ., «Σημειώσεις από τις πανεπιστημιακές παραδόσεις του μαθήματος Οργάνωση και Διοίκηση Εργοστασίων», Θεσσαλονίκη, 2008