LECTURE #

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

BEFORE MIDS
01

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

02

1. Strategy and Effective and Efficient Operations

2. Competitive Strategy and Operation Strategy
3. Difference between manufacturing and Service
Organizations
1. What is a Process?
2. Definitions ( Lead Time and Manufacturing Lead Time)
3. Littles Law
4. Break Even Analysis
1. Process view Of Organization
2. Capacity and Pizza Example
3. Reduction Of Flow Time
1. Types Of Wastages
2. Lean Manufacturing System
3. Kaizen (continual Improvement Process)
4. Lean Tools
1. Types of Manufacturing Processes
2. Types Of Layout
3. Pull and Push Methodology
4. KANBAN Process
5. Cellular Manufacturing
1. Just In Time Manufacturing
Objectives of JIT
JIT cause and effect chain
Quality Circle
Market Effects
Total Quality Control
Deming 14 Points
Relationships with Suppliers
1. Manufacturing Terms (ANDON, AUTONOMATION , YO-IDON)

03

04

05

06

07

Introduction to Operations Management

Types of Industries
Management Levels
Productivity
Improvement (Where and How to Improve)

Chapter # 1

Chapter # 2

Break Even
Analysis
(Supplement 7)

Chapter # 6

Chapter # 7
&
Chapter # 9

Chapter # 6

AFTER MIDS
08

1. Capacity Planning and Measurement

Capacity Decisions
Capacity Measurement
Theory of Constraints
Economies and Diseconomies of scale

Supplement 7

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10

11

12

13
14

15

16
17

1. Expansionist and Wait and See Policy

2. Systematic Approach to Capacity Planning
3. Location Planning (PESTLE and SWOT Analysis)
1. Location of a Good or Service
Factor Rating Method
Load Distance Method
Center of Gravity Method
Break Even Analysis
1. Layout Planning
2. Facility layout Planning
3. Designing of Process layout
4. Trip & REL Matrices
Planning of a Warehouse
ALDEP & CRAFT
Designing of a Product Layout (Line Balancing)
1. Precedence Diagram Problem and Rules
Largest Candidate Rule
1. Job Design & Work Measurement
Method Analysis to work Measurement
Time and motion study
Time standards
Flow charts
Time measuring Units (TMUs)
Problems
Work sampling
Problems
1. Forecasting (whole Chapter)
1. Regression and Correlation Analysis
2. Statistical Quality Control

Chapter # 8

Chapter # 9

Chapter # 9

Chapter # 9
Supplement 10

Supplement 10

Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Supplement 6

Following chapters are included in OM course. (All theory and solved problems are included and
exercises are excluded. Questions may be conceptual, based upon theory of these chapters)
1. Forecasting.
2. Capacity planning.
3. Location strategies.
4. Layout strategies.
5. Human resources and job design.
6. Work measurement.
7. Decision making tools.
8. Statistical process control (page 221-229).
9. Inventory management (473-487).
10. Short term scheduling (page 587-599) (especially important for short questions).
Reference: Operations Management, Jay Heizer and Barry Render,, 8th edition.