IE3551: Production and Operations Management syllabus for IEM 2021 regulation

Production and Operations Management detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the IEM students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Industrial Engineering & Management 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IEM 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of production and operations management is as follows.

Course Objectives:

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Unit I

INTRODUCTION
Objectives of Operations Management, Scope of Operations Management, Relationship of Operations with other Functional areas, Manufacturing Vs Service sector, Operations Decision making, Phases in Product Design and Development, Product Life Cycle, Process Selection.

Unit II

FORECASTING 9
Need, Determinants of Demand, Demand Patterns, Qualitative Forecasting Methods-Delphi techniques. Market Research, Nominal Group Technique.Quantitative Forecasting methods – Moving Average Methods, Exponential Smoothing Methods, Regression methods, Monitoring and Control of Forecasts, Requirements and Selection of Good forecasting methods.

Unit III

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Unit IV

CAPACITY MANAGEMENT 9
Measures of capacity, Factors affecting capacity, Capacity Planning, Systematic approach to capacity planning, Long-term and short-term capacity decisions, Tools for capacity planning, Capacity Requirement Planning- Business Process Outsourcing

Unit V

PRODUCTION ACTIVITY CONTROL AND LEAN MANUFACTURING 9
Objectives and Activities of Production Activity Control -JIT- Kanban- Introduction to Scheduling in different types of Production Systems. Lean Manufacturing – Principles -Activities – Tools and techniques – Case studies.

Course Outcomes:

1. The students will appreciate the role of Production and Operations management in enabling and enhancing a firm’s competitive advantages in the dynamic business environment.
2. The students will obtain sufficient knowledge and skills to forecast demand for Production and Service Systems.
3. The students will able to Formulate and Assess Aggregate Planning strategies and Material Requirement Plan.
4. The students will be able to develop analytical skills to calculate capacity requirements and developing capacity alternatives.
5. The students will be able to apply scheduling and Lean Concepts for improving System Performance.

Text Books:

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Reference Books:

1. Lee J. Krajewski, Manoj K. Malhotra, Larry P. Ritzman,Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains Pearson Education,11th Edition 2015
2. Norman Gaither, Greg Frazier, Operations Management, Thomson Learning, 9th Edition, 2002.
3. William J Stevenson,OperationsManagement,McGraw Hill,13th Edition,2018.

For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Industrial Engineering & Management, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit IEM 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.

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