Production Management Foundations

Course details

Much of business operations is about making things and delivering them to your customer. Despite the recent rise and focus on the service economy, anyone involved in goods-related businesses today should have a solid understanding of how operations management principles are applied to managing a modern factory. In this course, Steven Brown shares his knowledge about the skills required to design, plan, and manage a factory—and the business functions that support factory operations. Steven covers topics that include operations strategy, process and service design, key elements of production processes, factory planning and management systems, and more.

Whether you work directly with operations personnel or not, understanding your production process will make you better at your job—whatever that job may be.

Learning objectives
Explain how business strategy is supported by effective factory operations.
Identify product and service design methods for manufactured goods.
Describe the key elements of process, facility, and job design at the factory level.
Explain the major planning activities for a production system.
Differentiate among the primary factory management activities.
Describe the different company functions that support factory operations.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - A focus on the factory
02 - What you should know

1. Designing the Production System

03 - Operations strategy
04 - Technology and production management
05 - Product design for manufactured goods
06 - Service process design
07 - Supply chain design

2. Understanding Production Processes

08 - Process selection for making products
09 - Process design for factory operations
10 - Process maps for production
11 - Theory of constraints for factory operations
12 - Facility design for factory efficiency
13 - Job design for factory productivity

3. Planning the Production System

14 - Demand planning in production systems
15 - Capacity planning in production systems
16 - Inventory management in production systems
17 - Aggregate planning and a factory's production program

4. Managing the Production Process

18 - Master production scheduling
19 - Materials requirements planning
20 - Production scheduling and sequencing at the factory level
21 - Factory inventory control

5. Supporting the Production System

22 - Factory quality management
23 - Lean production systems
24 - Sourcing materials and supplies as a factory
25 - Factory receiving and shipping
26 - Project management of factory processes

Conclusion

27 - Producing more value with production management