Production and Operation Management
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Production and Operation Management Syllabus โ Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Production and Operation Management (subject code 2182501) as prescribed for Production ยท Semester 8 divides the course into 5 units, covering 42 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2182501)Unit 1 Process Planning and Process Engineering
- Process Planning: Introduction
- Pre-requisites and steps in process planning
- Factors affecting process planning
- Make or buy decision
- plant capacity and machine capacity
- Process Engineering: Preliminary Part Print Analysis: Introduction
- Establishing the General Characteristics of work piece
- determining the principal Process
- Functional surfaces of the work piece
- Nature of the work to be Performed
- Finishing and identifying operations
- Dimensional Analysis: Introduction
- types of dimensions
- measuring the Geometry of form
- Direction of specific dimensions
- Tolerance Analysis: Causes of work piece variation
- Terms used in work piece dimensions
- Tolerance stacks
- Work piece Control: Introduction
- Equilibrium Theories
- Concept of location
- Geometric Control
- Dimensional control
- Mechanical control
Unit 2 Production Forecasting
- Introduction of production forecasting
- The strategic role of forecasting in supply chain
- Time frame
- Demand behavior
- Forecasting methods- Qualitative and Quantitative
- Forecast accuracy
Unit 3 Scheduling
- Objectives in scheduling
- Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems
- Theory of Constraints
- Employee scheduling
Unit 4 Break-Even Analysis
- Break-even analysis charts
- Break- even analysis for process
- plant and equipment selection
Unit 5 Aggregate Operations Planning
- Aggregate production planning
- Adjusting capacity to meet the demand
- Demand management
- Hierarchical and collaborative planning
- Aggregate planning for services Production and Operation Management