Mechanical Engineering  Project and Production Management
   
 
Title: Project and Production Management
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Author: Prof. Arun Kanda
University: IIT Dehi
Type: WebLink
Abstract: PROJECT MANAGEMENT (16 lectures)

AN OVERVIEW (1 lecture)

1. Project Management: An Overview

PROJECT SELECTION (4 lectures)

2. Project Identification and Screening
3. Project Appraisal: Part I
4. Project Appraisal: Part II
5. Project Selection

PROJECT PLANNING (8 lectures)

Development of Project Network (2 lectures)
6. Project Representation
7. Consistency and Redundancy in Project Networks

Project Scheduling (3 lectures)
8. Basic Scheduling with A-O-A Networks
9. Basic Scheduling with A-O-N Networks
10. Project Scheduling with Probabilistic Activity Times

Time / Cost Tradeoffs in Projects (1 lecture)
11. Linear Time-Cost Tradeoffs in Projects: A Heuristic Approach

Resource Considerations in Projects( 2 lectures)
12. Resource Profiles and leveling
13. Limited Resource Allocation

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION (2 lectures)
14. Project Monitoring and Control with PERT / Cost
15. Team Building and Leadership in Projects PROJECT COMPLETION (1 lecture)
16. Project Completion, Review and Future Directions

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT (24 lectures)

INTRODUCTORY (2 lectures)

1. Introduction to Production Systems and a Generalized Model of Production
2. Life cycle of a Production System and Major managerial Decisions

FINANCIAL EVALUATION OF PRODUCTION RELATED DECISIONS (4 lectures)

3. Performance Measures of a Production System
4. Financial Evaluation of Capital Decisions (2 lectures)
5. Decision Trees and evaluation of risk

DESIGNING PRODUCTS & SERVICES (3 lectures)

6. Introducing New Products and Services (2 lectures)
7. Product Mix Decisions

FACILITY LOCATION AND LAYOUT (6 lectures)

8. Plant Location (2 Lectures)
9. Process Layouts
10. Product Layouts and Assembly Line Balancing
11. Cellular Layouts
12. Layouts for Advanced Manufacturing Systems

PRODUCTION PLANNING OVER MEDIUM TERM HORIZON (5 lectures)

13. Demand Forecasting (3 lectures)
14. Aggregate Production Planning (2 lectures)

OPERATIONAL DECISIONS OVER THE SHORT TERM (4 lectures)

15. Inventory related Decisions (2 lectures)
16. Material Requirements Planning`
17. Scheduling of Job Shops

Total Number of Video Lectures = 40
The Web Based support Material will be based on the above modular design including

• Examples
• Clarification of Concepts
• Problems with and without solutions
• Quizzes with answers etc.
 
   
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