Factory Physics

  • Industrial & Management Engineering |

Description

This course provides students’ with deep and generic insights for understanding, evaluating, and improving the performance of production lines. The course covers different topics including: advanced inventory management and control techniques, advanced materials requirements planning, basic dynamics of production lines, the different variability sources in a production line, the corrupting influence of variability, evaluating the performance of production lines, and the effect of batching on production lines’ performance.

Program

B.Sc. in Industrial and Management Engineering 180 Cr. Hr.

Objectives

  • To review the elementary concepts required for describing manufacturing systems. To enable the student to identify the points of leverage in a plant, evaluate the impacts of the proposed changes, and coordinate improvement efforts. To provide the student with the ability to bring together the disparate components of a system into an effective whole.

Textbook

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Course Content

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1Overview of the Factory Physics Concept. The Science of Manufacturing. Deterministic Inventory Models. Stochastic Inventory Models. Material Requirements Planning Technique. Lot-Sizing Techniques. Basic Factory Dynamics. Sources of Variability in Manufacturing Systems ? Setups and Breakdowns. Sources of Variability in Manufacturing Systems ? Flow of Materials. Sources of Variability in Manufacturing Systems ? Queuing. Corrupting Influence of Variability ? Performance Measures. Corrupting Influence of Variability ? Buffering Variability. Corrupting Influence of Variability ? Use of Batching. Push and Pull Production Systems. The use of Constant WIP in Production Systems. Final Exam.
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Markets and Career

  • Generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electrical power for public and private sectors to secure both continuous and emergency demands.
  • Electrical power feeding for civil and military marine and aviation utilities.
  • Electrical works in construction engineering.

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