Operations Management for Engineers

2008 | 2009 | 2010

Area/catalogue: MFET 3011
Course ID: 013023

School: School of Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering

Campus/course component(s):
Mawson Lakes: Lecture
This course is also available to students studying at an offshore location.
Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Unit value: 4.5

Offered externally: No

Undergraduate elective course: No

Course details

Introduction to operations management and the roles of the manager. Strategic guidance for operations, strategic planning, models of decision making process, decision environments including risk and uncertainty. The need for monetary control, introduction to financial accounting, the budgeting process, costing and investment appraisal. The concept of quality and total quality management. Planning for operations and capacity, business plan, production plan, aggregate planning, master production schedule. Managing independent demand inventory, inventory costs, deterministic and probabilistic inventory models. Managing dependent demand inventory, material requirements planning and capacity requirements. Just-in-time manufacturing.

Text book/s:

R S Russell and B W Taylor 2009, Operations Management: Creating Value Along the Supply Chain, 6th, John Wiley and Sons.

Course coordinator/s:

Fee information for this course

EFTSL: 0.125

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Commonwealth Supported Band Amount: Band 2
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