Projects and Operations Management

Syllabus

Course Code: 3.2

PROJECTS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Module 1                                                                                                               4 Hours

Definition of Project, Five phases of project management- Project Initiation, Project Planning, Project Execution, Project Monitoring and Controlling, Project Closing.

Module 2                                                                                                            10 Hours

Project management knowledge areas: Project integration management. Project scope management. Project time management. Project cost management. Project quality management. Project resource management. Project communications management. Project risk management.

Module 3                                                                                                            10 Hours

Nature and Scope of Production and operations Management, its relationship with other Systems in Organizations, Functions of Production and material management, Types of production Systems. Forecasting as a planning tool, Forecasting types and methods. Problems. Facility Planning: Facilities location decisions, factors affecting facility location decisions and their relative importance for different types of facilities. Problems.

Module 4                                                                                                            10 Hours

Facility layout planning: Layout and its objectives for manufacturing operations, principles, types of plant layouts – product layout, process layout, fixed position layout, cellular manufacturing layouts, hybrid layouts, Factors influencing layout changes. Problems.

Time and Motion Study, Work Study in Management Science

Maintenance: Reactive (run-to-failure), Predetermined maintenance, Preventive maintenance, Corrective maintenance, Condition-based maintenance, Predictive maintenance.

Introduction to Lean operations and elimination of 7 wastes 5S of housekeeping.

Module 5                                                                                                            10 Hours

Quality management: Introduction; Quality characteristics of goods and services; Tools and techniques for quality improvement: check sheets, histogram, scatter diagram, cause and effect diagram, Pareto chart, process diagram, statistical process control charts;

Quality assurance; Total quality management (TQM) model; Service quality, Concept of Six Sigma and its application.

Juran’s quality trilogy, Deming’s 14 principles, PDCA cycle, Quality circles, Quality

improvement and cost reduction – QC tools, Introduction to the current ISO for Production Management. Contribution of Quality Gurus.

Module 6                                                                                                               8 Hours

Meaning of Productivity and different types of productivity

Materials Management: Role of Materials Management – materials and profitability, Purchase functions, Procurement procedures Vendor selection and development, Vendor rating, ethics in purchasing. Inventory Management: Concepts of inventory, types, Classification, selective inventory management, ABC, VED and FSN analysis. Inventory costs, Inventory models – EOQ, safety stocks, Reorder point, Quantity discounts.