Study Guide

Teaching methods

Objectives

The goal of this course is to provide the students the competences of plant managers
and tools to implement the agile paradigms from mass customizing unique products
for individual customers or niche markets to manufacturing products to-order quickly
and cost effectively in flexible environment.

The students learn how to manage variety, customize products quickly and easily, and
how to develop production systems to JIT, TOC, LEAN and agile manufacturing
according to production strategy.

In order to develop production systems in practice one needs to have competence to
analyze, evaluate, design and implement systems for production in factories and
service industries.

One also needs to understand the need for strategic fit and improvement in different
situations.

Content

Manufacturing systems development is studied in three levels: principles, factory and
operations.
• Production and manufacturing philosophies
• Just In Time
• Theory of Constraints
• LEAN Production and Management, Kaizen and 5S
• Mass Customization, Modular and Agile Product
• Manufacturing System Design and Decomposition (MSDD)
• Layout specialties for different manufacturing systems
• Performance Measuring and Analyzing Tools
• Simulations and work improvement methods

Methods

Lessons
Groupworks
• Exercises of various topics
• Report and presentation of one reference book
Learning diary

Grading Scale

The evaluation (grades 0-5) is based on learning diary
Groupworks need to be done and accepted for final grade

Student workload

Estimation of time usage for a student

Classes according to schedule 42 h
• Contact lessons
• Exercises
• Presentations and wrap up
Independent learning and working 93 h
• Exercises, groupworks
Total workload estimation 135 h

Qualifications

Basic knowledge of business economics, procurement management, operations management and materials management.

Materials

Materials in Moodle
Krajewski & Ritzman: Operations Management - Strategy and Analysis.
Anderson: Agile Product Development for Mass Customization.
Slack , Chambers & Johnston: Operations management.
Womack, Jones & Roos, D: The Machine that Changed The World.
Liker: The Toyota Way.
Rother: Toyota Kata.