JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Operation Management – Definition – Objectives – Types of production systems – historical development of operations management – Current issues in operation management. Product design – Requirements of good product design – product development – approaches – concepts in product development – standardization – simplification – Speed to market – Introduction to concurrent engineering.

UNIT - II

Alue engineering – objective – types of values – function & cost – product life cycle- steps in value engineering – methodology in value engineers – FAST Diagram – Matrix Method. Location – Facility location and layout – Factors considerations in Plant location- Comparative Study of rural and urban sites – Methods of selection plant layout – objective of good layout – Principles – Types of layout – line balancing.

UNIT - III

Aggregate Planning – definition – Different Strategies – Various models of Aggregate Planning – Transportation and graphical models. Advance inventory control systems push systems – Material Requirement – Terminology – types of demands – inputs to MRP- techniques of MRP – Lot sizing methods – benefits and drawbacks of MRP –Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP –II), Pull systems – Vs Push system – Just in time (JIT) philosophy Kanban System – Calculation of number of Kanbans Requirements for implementation JIT – JIT Production process – benefits of JIT.

UNIT - IV

Scheduling – Policies – Types of scheduling – Forward and Backward Scheduling – Grant Charts – Flow shop Scheduling – n jobs and 2 machines, n jobs and 3 machines – job shop Scheduling – 2 jobs and n machines – Line of Balance.

UNIT - V

Project Management – Programming Evaluation Review Techniques (PERT) – three times estimation – critical path – probability of completion of project – critical path method – crashing of simple nature.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Production and Operations Management “ by E.S. Buffa, Jhon Wiley & sons
• 2. Operations Management Theory and Problems - Joseph G. Monks.
• 3. Production Systems Management - James I. Riggs.
• 4. Production and Operations Management –S N Chary, McGraw Hill. 2016