Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Course Objective
This course provides ways to analyze manufacturing systems in terms of material flow and storage, information flow, capacities, and times and durations of events. Fundamental topics include probability, inventory and queuing models, forecasting, optimization, process analysis, and linear and dynamic systems. Factory planning and scheduling topics include flow planning, bottleneck characterization, buffer and batch-size tactics, seasonal planning, and dynamic behavior of production systems.

Grading
The grading will be weighted as follows: ACTIVITIES Midterm Take-Home Assignment Final Take-Home Assignment PERCENTAGES 40% 60%

Notes
1. Problem sets: We will distribute problem sets related to each subject that we cover. These problem sets will not be graded, and you do not have to hand them in (posted "due" dates are only for helping you stay on track). However, you should try hard to solve all problems before looking at the answers as, like any other skill, the only way to really learn the material is by practicing

regularly (plus, working on the problems will help you do well on the take home assignments!). Detailed solutions will be provided a week later. 2. For students who end up being at the borderline between two grades, we will take into consideration evidence of diligence and effort, in the form of class participation, attendance to recitation and office hours, etc. This cannot hurt you, but it may tip the scale in your favor.

Calendar
This is an approximate schedule for the course topics, problem sets, and assignments. There may be some modifications of the class contents, and we may add a problem set or two. We'll give you some warning if we do. SES # TOPICS 1 2 3 4 Overview Probability I: introduction, discrete random variable Probability II: continuous random variable Queueing I: single-server queues HW 1 due 5 Queueing II: queuing networks HW 2 out HW 1 out ASSIGNMENTS

6 7 8

Inventory I: newsboy model, EOQ model, etc. Inventory II: base stock policy, periodic review inventory Optimization

SES # TOPICS

ASSIGNMENTS HW 2 due

Optimization (cont.)

HW 3 out

10 11 12

Optimization (cont.) Statistics: sampling, estimation, confidence intervals Regression: multivariate analysis of variance, etc. HW 3 due

13

Forecasting: time series model and forecasting

HW 4 out Mid-term take-home assignment out

14 15 16

Single-Part-Type Systems I Single-Part-Type Systems II Single-Part-Type Systems III HW 4 due Mid-term take-home assignment due

17

Multi-Part-Type Systems

HW 5 out

18 19 20

Material Requirements Planning Multi-Stage Control and Scheduling I Multi-Stage Control and Scheduling II HW 5 due

SES # TOPICS

ASSIGNMENTS HW 6 out

21 22

Simulation I Simulation II HW 6 due

23

Toyota Production System

Final take-home assignment

24 25

Quality/Quantity Guest Speaker Final take-home assignment due