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cIPS Professional Stage – Elective Subjects
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AIM
To
provide an appreciation of operational processes, techniques, planning and
control
Introduction
The position of operations in an organisation. The input-transformation-output
Types of operations - producers of goods and producers of services.
The role of operations in the organisation. The meaning of the operations
function.
The five performance objectives - speed, quality, dependability,
The need for new development. Phasing in new products/services.
Product/service
development as a company-wide activity.
Operations considerations in product/ service features. Importance of design. Total quality.
Pareto/value analysis; variety reduction.
Management of Facilities
Facility location considerations and layout.
Facility design - functional involvement.
Factors affecting equipment selection.
Preventive and repair maintenance.
Asset replacement considerations.
Management of Processes
Basic types of production (project, jobbing, batch, flow) -characteristics and
skills, expertise required.
Method study, ergonomics.
Materials handling - broad costs, equipment, principle of unit load.
Work measurement - uses and different types. Standard time concept. Payment by
results schemes.
Quality - pre-requisites, design and conformance, costs affected by quality.
Sampling in quality control (QC). Use of warning and action limits in statistical process control (SPC).
Acceptance sampling, Japanese approaches,
Ishikawa diagrams.
Management of Programmes
Objectives of Production Planning and Control (PPC). Activities of PPC and
relationships with other departments.
Forecasting, capacity planning.
Scheduling and loading, scheduling rules.
Network analysis - drawing, calculation, resource aggregation, crash costing.
Data capture and reporting, information required, accuracy, new
Inventory control systems.
Materials requirements planning (MRP).
Management
of People
Personnel administration, job evaluation, accident prevention.
Approaches to motivation, management culture, Japanese approaches.
Evolving
Technologies and Approaches
Materials requirements planning (MRP), Manufacturing resource planning (MRPII).
Just in Time (JIT).
Optimised Production Technology (OPT).
Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS).
Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM).
Computer-aided Design/Manufacture (CAD/CAM).
Lean performance.
World class organisations, world class performance.
Benchmarking.
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