040459 Production Management - SS2007

Lecturer

• Dr. Christian Almeder

Dates & Places

• Tuesday 13:00-15:00 (HS 5) - 120 minutes
• Thursday 10:00-12:00 (HS 5) - 120 minutes
• Starting on March 8^th, 2007
• Midterm Test: April 24th, 13:15-14:15 (HS 2) - 60 minutes (Topics: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 up to "Assemble-To-Order Modelin") - Results
• Final Test: June, 14th, 12:15-13:15 (HS 2) - 60 minutes - Results

Textbook

• Production: Planning, Control and Integration by Sipper and Bulfin, McGraw-Hill, 1997 (corrections are available here)

Additional Literature

• Factory Physics by Hopp and Spearman, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
• Produktionsmanagement by Günther and Tempelmeier, Springer, 1995.
• Produktionsplannung by Domschke, Scholl and Voss, Springer, 1997.
• Heuristic Scheduling Systems by Morton and Pentico, Wiley, 1993.

Course Content and Organization

Aim of the course is to introduce students to problems arising in the management of production processes and make them familiar with traditional and recent approaches to address and solve these problems. Topics to be covered are Aggregate Planning, Capacity and Material Planing, Scheduling and Integrated Production Planning and Control Techniques. There will be a midterm and a final exam. Problem sets will be assigned regularly and the solutions will be discussed at the beginning of the following week’s unit. Students are encouraged to present these solutions for credit on their grade. Additionally, approx. 3 mini-cases will be assigned during the semester which have to be worked out and turned in by each student.

Grading

• Midterm Exam: 35%
• Final Exam: 35%
• Mini-Cases: 15%
• Problems: 15% (for each problem solution presented in class up to 5% credit can be obtained with on overall maximum of 15% and with a maximum of 5% per chapter)

Downloads

• Slides (PDF) - Corrections for Slides 63, 88, 109
• MaTell - Example (Excel Sheet)
• Aggregate Planning:
• Spreadsheet methods (Excel Sheet)
• LP-Modeling (Excel Sheet)
• Multiple Products (Excel Sheet)
• Multiple Processes (Excel Sheet)
• Workforce Planning (Excel Sheet)
• Master Planning:
• Capacity Modeling (Excel Sheet)
• MRP (Excel Sheet)
• MRP - Lotsizing (MIP) (PDF)
• Tables for Normal Distribution Function and Standard Loss Function (PDF)
• Scheduling:
• Missing slide in script (Minimizing Earliness and Tardiness) (PDF)
• R & M Heuristic (Excel Sheet)
• Slide for Gupta-Heuristic (PDF)
• MIP formulation - Presentation (PDF, XPRESS-Solution)

Problems

Minicases

• 1st Minicase: BF Swing II (Download)- RESULTS
• due date: May 6^th, 2007
• max. points: 7.5
• Please use the download version above and not the description of the book.
• You should deliver the solution:
• as a single MS-Excel file or a single XPRESS/MP model file
• include a description (in the Excel or Xpress file) of what kind of solution method you use, why you use it, and how it works.
• name the file: LASTNAME_#######_bfswingII.xls (or .mos) where LASTNAME is your last name and ####### is your matriculation number.
• send the file via email to christian.almeder@univie.ac.at

• 2nd Minicase: Ilana Designs (Download)
  (pp. 453-454 in Production: Planning, Control and Integration by Sipper and Bulfin - Download)
• due date: June 19^th, 2007
• max. points: 7.5
• You should deliver the solution:
• as a single file (Word, Excel or PDF)
• include a description of what kind of solution method you use, why you use it, and denote all formulas you are using.
• name the file: LASTNAME_#######_ilana.doc (or .xls, .pdf) where LASTNAME is your last name and ####### is your matriculation number.
• send the file via email to christian.almeder@univie.ac.at