Checking date: 01/05/2019


Course: 2019/2020

Engineering Management I
(15719)
Bachelor in Industrial Technologies Engineering (Plan: 418 - Estudio: 256)


Coordinating teacher: RIVERA RIQUELME, FRANCISCO ANTON

Department assigned to the subject: Mechanical Engineering Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
No prerequisites.
- Identify the need of Manufacturing Planning an Control Systems and know their characteristics. - Differentiate the adequacy of such systems and tools to different types of business.
Description of contents: programme
Manufacturing Planning an Control systems (MPC) Aggregate Production Planning Dependent Demand Inventory Systems Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Capacity Management Master Production Schedule (MPS) Shop Floor Control Theory of Constraints (TOC) Push, Pull and CONWIP Systems
Learning activities and methodology
Lectures, exercises, practical sessions, cases and assignments to be carried out by the students and discussed during the sessions, complementary readings.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Basic Bibliography
  • Vollmann, T.E.; Berry, W.L.; Whybark, D.C.. Sistemas de planificación y control de la fabricación. Irwin. 1995
Additional Bibliography
  • Chase, R.B.; Jacobs, F.R.; Aquilano, N.J.. Administración de operaciones: producción y cadena de suministros. McGraw-Hill. 2009
  • Schroeder, R.G.. Administración de operaciones: conceptos y casos contemporáneos. McGraw-Hill. 2011
  • Silver, E.A.; Pyke, D.F.; Peterson, R.. Inventory management and production planning and scheduling. John Wiley and Sons. 1998

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.