Analysis and written report

Examination

Demand management: forecasting, patterns of demand; qualitative and quantitative methods.

Master production scheduling and Operations planning: the master scheduling process, rough-cut capacity planning fences, final assembly scheduling, Bill of Material structure and design, Materials requirements planning, Manufacturing Resources Planning, Enterprise Resources Planning systems, scheduling and inventory control.

Lean manufacturing, just-in-time - the culture and manufacturing techniques, kanbans, one-piece flow and set-up time reduction.

Background and evolution of the quality movement.

Quality gurus and the cost of quality.

Quality control procedures, Process capability and statistical process control techniques. Process design for quality considerations: design for assembly, liaison diagrams, key characteristics to enable quality conformance.

Quality management systems - standards and models: ISO9000:2000.

Business improvement techniques - FMEA, QFD and value management.

The six sigma approach, its methodologies.

The DMAIC project model and six sigma process mapping.

Manufacturing Operations Management - 6107SBC

Manufacturing Operations Management

Use the principles of control of resources in a modern manufacturing organisation, apply the planning and control of information, data and resources in the efficient execution of manufacturing.

Apply decision making tools in service and manufacturing companies.

Understand the six sigma methodologies and apply the DMAIC model to an improvements activity.

Apply a range of quality techniques (e.g. SPC, QFD, FMEA) to monitor, analyse and improve business processes.