Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | AUTOMOTIVE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT | ||||||||||
Course Unit Code | AUTO408 | ||||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||||
Prerequisites | AUTO108 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||||
Course Contents | � Introduction to Operations Management - Introduction to Operations Management - Project management and use of commercial software to form project management schedules (Microsoft Project). - Regression analysis to forecast key operational parameters. � Operations Design - Design of Products (Product Life cycle, QFD approach, Make-or-by decisions, Group Technology) - Selection of Manufacturing Process (Process types: Project, Job, batch, continuous; The product – process matrix); - Capacity Planning (Forecasting demand fluctuations; measuring capacity; alternative capacity plans); - Production Layout (Types of layout: Fixed – position, Process, Cell, Product, Mixed; selecting a layout type; line balancing; relationship charts); - umaHHuman Resources (Job classifications and work rules, Work schedules) and Job Design (motivation theories, job expansion, self – directed teams, ergonomics); Work measurement (Labour standards; Time studies); - Quality Management (TQM, Cause-and Effect diagrams, Statistical Process Control, Process Capability, Statistical Control Charts). � Operations Management - Maintenance approaches and Product Reliability (its estimation using exponential and normal distributions), product availability; - Process Optimisation (simplex method and use of Microsoft Excel/ Solver to model optimisation problems). - Aggregate Planning and MRP/ ERP Systems � Short term scheduling and JIT operations | ||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks. Lectures are supplemented with laboratory work carried out on Microsoft Project. During laboratory sessions, students use commercial software to model and develop actual project schedules and calculate vital parameters (CPM, duration, resources, budget etc). | ||||||||||
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Language of instruction | English | ||||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |