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Description

Is your manufacturing business strategically positioned to
surpass its competitors
? Effectively streamlining your company’s approach to both planning and control is essential for
cutting costs, enhancing efficiency
, and maintaining a competitive edge. In today’s fast-paced industry, where customer demands dictate success, it is crucial to not only meet but consistently exceed these expectations.
Leveraging the instructor’s extensive operational experience, this course will introduce you to the fundamental principles and
best practices
of production management. You will explore key concepts such as decision-making processes, systems design and capacity, facilities location and layout, demand forecasting, resource and materials planning, capacity management and production control, as well as materials and inventory strategies.
Upon completing this course, manufacturing professionals and business owners will acquire the
practical skills
necessary to enhance their personal performance and significantly
improve the efficiency
of their company’s manufacturing operations. This comprehensive program will equip you with the knowledge, analytical skills, and advanced practices required to remain current and competitive within the supply chain industry. Moreover, you will learn how to consistently fulfill customer requirements with greater speed and accuracy, outpacing your competitors and establishing your business as a leader in the market.
Join us today to transform your manufacturing operations and drive your business towards sustainable growth and success.
Who this course is for:
Perfect for manufacturing professionals and students of manufacturing operations and manufacturing management systems at every level seeking a basic and more advanced understanding of manufacturing planning, execution, and control systems.

What you'll learn

This course will teach you how to improve, manage, and regulate all aspects of a successful manufacturing operations infrastructure

You’ll develop the ability to design and oversee an effective master production schedule that makes the best possible use of your manufacturing resources

You’ll discover the basics of materials requirements planning, including lead time offsetting, bill of materials, and determining manufacturing order quantities

You’ll understand how to apply capacity planning and management to determining capacity requirements and to matching capacity with scheduling and control

You’ll learn the best way to develop and implement a winning production activity control system that reduces WIP, inventories, and lead times

Requirements

  • You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2019 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous design experience is needed.
  • No previous Adobe XD skills are needed.

Course Content

27 sections • 95 lectures
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1-Operations Management Basics
11
1.1-Course Introduction
1.2-Glossary of Terms and Definitions
1.3-Production Management and System
1.4-Classification of Production Systems
1.5-A Framework for Managing Operations
1.6-Operations Management - Objectives
1.7-Strategic Role of Operations
1.8-Strategic Planning
1.9-Productivity
1.10-Scope of Operations Management
1.11-Operations Management Basics Quiz
2-Role of Global Operations
6
2.1-Global Factors
2.2-Benefits of Global Operations
2.3-Challenges and Cost Considerations
2.4-Total Cost of Ownership
2.5-Political and Economic Factors
2.6-Role of Global Operations Quiz
3-Decision Making in Operations
11
3.1-Presentation Slides and Spreadsheets
3.2-Framework for Decision Making
3.3-Decision Methods and Techniques
3.4-Decision Making Under Uncertainty
3.5-Decision Making Under Risk
3.6-Break Even Analysis
3.7-Break-Even Point Examples - 1
3.8-Break-Even Point Examples - 2
3.9-Discrete and Continuous Data Equations
3.10-Decision Tree
3.11-Decision Making in Operations Quiz
4-Systems Design and Capacity
4
4.1-Design and Systems Capacity
4.2-Capacity Planning
4.3-Capacity Decisions
4.4-Systems Design and Capacity Quiz
5-Locating Facilities
9
5.1-Presentation Slides and Spreadsheets
5.2-Reasons for Selecting a Suitable Location
5.3-Plant/Facility Location - Factors
5.4-Location Models
5.5-Weighted Factor Rating Methods
5.6-Load Distance Methods
5.7-Centre of Gravity
5.8-Locational Economics
5.9-Locating Facilities Quiz
6-Facility Layout
10
6.1-Presentation Slides and Spreadsheets
6.2-Plant Layout Basics
6.3-Classification of Layout
6.4-Combination and Fixed Position Layout
6.5-Group (Cellular) Layout
6.6-Design of Product Layout
6.7-Line Balancing Example
6.8-Design of Process Layout
6.9-Service Layout
6.10-Facility Layout Quiz
7-Forecasting Demand
9
7.1-Presentation Slides and Spreadsheets
7.2-Forecasting Demand - Objectives and Methods
7.3-Time Series Methods
7.4-Exponential Smoothing
7.5-Regression Methods - Simple Regression
7.6-Correlation Methods - Simple Correlation
7.7-Forecast Controls
7.8-Forecast Application
7.9-Forecasting Demand Quiz
8-Developing and Designing Products
6
8.1-Product Design and Analysis
8.2-Marketing and Production Characteristics
8.3-Economic Analysis and Production Aspect
8.4-Design for Manufacture
8.5-Design for Excellence
8.6-Developing and Designing Products Quiz
9-Managing Materials
12
9.1-Presentation Slides and Spreadsheets
9.2-Materials Management - Functions
9.3-Purchasing - Objectives and Parameters
9.4-Selection of Suppliers
9.5-Stores Management
9.6-Inventory Management
9.7-Inventory Model EOQ - Trial and Error Method
9.8-Inventory Model EOQ - Analytical Method
9.9-Standardisation and Simplification
9.10-Value Analysis
9.11-Ergonomics and Just-in-Time
9.12-Managing Materials Quiz
10-Aggregate Planning and Master Scheduling
9
10.1-Presentation Slides and Spreadsheets
10.2-Aggregate Planning and Master Scheduling Basics
10.3-Aggregate Planning Strategies
10.4-Mixed Strategies
10.5-Master Scheduling
10.6-Master Scheduling Format
10.7-Available-to-Promise
10.8-Practical Examples
10.9-Aggregate Planning and Master Scheduling Quiz
11-Material and Capacity Requirements Planning
9
11.1-Presentation Slides and Spreadsheets
11.2-Material and Capacity Requirements Planning Objectives
11.3-Material Requirements Planning Inputs and Outputs
11.4-Material Requirements Planning Logic
11.5-System Refinements
11.6-Safety Stock, Lot sizing and System Updating
11.7-Capacity Requirements Planning Inputs and Outputs
11.8-Loading - Steps and Concepts
11.9-Material and Capacity Requirements Planning Quiz
12-Scheduling and Controlling Production Activities
8
12.1-Presentation Slides and Spreadsheets
12.2-Scheduling and Controlling Production Basics
12.3-Shortest Processing Time Rule
12.4-Weighted Shortest Processing Time Rule
12.5-Earliest Due Date Rule
12.6-Minimising the Number of Tardy Jobs
12.7-Flow Shop Scheduling
12.8-Scheduling and Controlling Production Activities Quiz
13-Role of Technology in Operations
4
13.1-Types of Operations Technologies. ERP.
13.2-Other Information Technologies
13.3-E-Manufacturing and Emerging Technologies
13.4-Role of Technology Quiz
14-Metrics for Assessing Performance
6
14.1-Metrics and Measurement
14.2-Categories of Metrics
14.3-Productivity Measures
14.4-Customer Service Measures
14.5-Metrics for Assessing Performance Quiz
14.6-Course Closure