Analyse und Optimierung von Produktionssystemen - Detailansicht

The course covers eight topics out of the vast body of knowledge of the operations management field:
- Process analysis
- Process capacity evaluation
- Assembly line balancing
- Batching and other flow interruptions
- Variability and its impact of flow time
- Variability and its impact on flow rate
- the newsvendor model and its extensions
- industry 4.0 technologies

Cachon, G., Terwiesch, C. (2013) Matching Supply with Demand, An Introduction to Operations Management, New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
Jacobs, F. R., Chase, R. B. (2018) Operations and Supply Chain Management, New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
Nahmias, S. (2009) Production and Operations Analysis, New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
Hopp, W. J., Spearman, M. L. (2008) Factory Physics, New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
Curry, G. L., Feldman, R. M. (2011) Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer-Verlag.

Students will get a foundation in formal quantitative modeling in a variety of operational settings in order to understand and optimize real production systems.

Bachelor level math, ideally some practical experience with manufacturing systems.