IME642A - Operations Management

Overview of Manufacturing Planning and Control; Forecasting; Smoothing Methods, Time Series Analysis, Decomposition Methods. Autoregressive and Box Jenkins Models. Qualitative Models; Aggregate Production Planning, Master Production Scheduling. Capacity Planning. Demand Management. Scheduling; Performance Measures, Single Machine Models, Flow Shop and Job Shops, Dynamic Scheduling, Evaluation of Heuristics and Dispatching Rules.