Tactical Production Planning & Management

Course contents

- Basics of tactical production management
- Design of the product system
- Utility analysis
- Profitability analysis
- Product variation or differentiation
- Design of a production system: productive units & production structure
- Types of production organization
- Layout planning methods (e.g. CRAFT method)
- Problems and models of classical capacity coordination (e.g. queueing system)
- Capacity dimensioning
- Capital budgeting
- Production system & IT support
- Event oriented simulation of a production system

Department

Bachelor's program Industrial Engineering & Management