Competence to design, optimize and manage production systems Capability to analyze the relationship between products' design and the characteristics of their production processes Understanding of the key Operations Management concepts and techniques in advanced and international industrial envirnoments

* Operations Management ** The Operations Management subsystem * Typology of production processes. ** Products vs. processes * Inventory management ** Independent stochastic demand ** Inventory management models * Dependent demand. ** Material Requirements Planning (MRP) ** Finite and infinite capacity planning * Constraints theory ** Application of Constraints theory in Operations environment ** Application of Constraints theory in Project environment * Lean Systems ** Just in Time ** From Lean Production to Lean Management

Lectures, exercises, practical sessions, cases and assignments to be carried out by the students and discussed during the sessions, readings assigned by the instructor or identified by the students.