PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Instruction per Week : 4 Hrs Sessionals : 20
Duration of Examination: 3 Hrs Univ.Exam : 80

UNIT - I
Introduction to production and operations management : Definition of production and operations management, evolution of production management as operations management.
Role of operations management in total management system, interface between the operation systems and systems of other functional areas.

UNIT - II
Production planning and control : Basic functions of production planning and control, production cycle-characteristics of process technologies. Project, job shop, assembly and continuous inter relationship between product life cycle and process life cycle. Scheduling and control of production operations - control procedures and devices. Product sequencing-
Sequencing pf products in multi product multi-Stage situations- Plant capacity and line balancing- Plant layout - Different types of layouts. Location and the factors influencing location.

UNIT - III
Maintenance Management : Objectives- Failure concept, reliability, preventive and breakdown maintenance, replacement policies and quality control - Standards and specifications, quality assurance and quality circles - statistical quality control - Control charts for average. Range fraction defective and number of defects- Total Quality management. ISO certification improvement of productivity : Work study, various techniques in the methods study for identifying the most appropriate method. Work measurement - its uses and different methods, computation of allowance and allowed time.

UNIT - IV
Materials management :
Need use and importance of material management - Materials requirement planning
Materials budgeting - techniques for prioritization of materials - Sour of supply of materials- Selection, evaluation and performance of su[[liers- make or buy decisions and its implications under various circumstances - vendor rating - determination of vendor ratings.

UNIT - V
Stores management - Objectives of stores management - requirement for efficient management of stores - Safety stock - Inventory control - Types of inventory, Costs- Systems of inventory control - ABC, VED and FNSD analysis. Different systems of inventory control- Value ananlysis- Importance in cost reduction - concepts and procedures.

Suggested Readings :

1. Everett. Adam. Jr. and Ronald J.Elbert - “Production and Operations Management Concepts and Bahaviour”. Prentice Hall International Ltd., - 1995.
2. Joseph G. Monks - “Operations Management - Theory and Problems”, McGraw Hill, New York - 1987.
3. Hamid Noori and Russel Radford : - “Production and Operations Management - Total Quality and Responsiveness”, McGraw Hills - 1995.