Production and Operations Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Production and Operations Management (subject code 3712810) as prescribed for ME · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 36 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 (3712810)Unit 1 Introduction
- Basic Concepts of Operations Management
- Types of Manufacturing Systems and their Characteristics
- Operations in Service
- Operations Strategy (In Manufacturing and Services)
- Operations Priorities
Unit 2 Product and Process Design (Manufacturing)
- Product Life Cycle
- Different Product Design Strategies
- Process Selection and Design Alternatives
- Technological Considerations
Unit 3 Production Scheduling
- Single Machine Scheduling (Conditions/Assumptions of single machine scheduling
- Definitions of Processing time
- Ready Time
- Due date
- Completion time
- Flow time
- Mean flow time
- Mean tardiness
- Shortest Processing Time (SPT) Rule to minimize mean flow rate
- Weighted Mean flow rate
- Earliest Due Date (EDD) Rule to minimize maximum lateness)
- Flow Shop Scheduling (Conditions/Assumptions of flow-shop scheduling
- Johnson’s Algorithm for 2 machines n jobs problems)
- Job Shop Scheduling (Introduction
- Graphical solution of 2 jobs and M machines)
Unit 4 Service Operations Management
- Differences and similarities Between Manufacturing & Service
- Operations Strategy in Service
- Nature of Services
- Contemporary View of Service Management
- Operational Classification of Service
- Service Design Alternatives, and Scheduling in Services
Unit 5 Just In Time (JIT)
- Introduction to JIT Manufacturing Concept
- Working of Kanban System
- JIT Implementation Requirements
- JIT Application in Different Environments
- Push and Pull Manufacturing Comparison
- JIT in