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COURSE PRO FORMA

Teaching Schedule

References/Teaching
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Materials/Equipment
1 Industrial engineering as a profession Lecture notes, Reference
 Engineering in general and industrial engineering texts
 Engineering and science – similarities and differences (scope
and engineering processes)
 Role and function of industrial engineering and industrial engi-
neer as an internal consultant
 Industrial engineering and knowledge integration
 Future challenges
2 Industrial and systems engineering Lecture notes, Reference
 System definition, terminology and structure texts
 Model and systems
 Characteristics of goods and services
 System design process and analysis
 Feedback and feed-forward loops
 System design - levels of industrial engineering systems
 Some examples of manufacturing systems – CIM, FMS, etc.
 Sub-systems and effect of sub-optimization
 System theory/cybernetics and system control
3 Organizational decision making Lecture notes, Reference
 Planning and action texts
 Mission to objectives
 Key result areas (KRAs) in production
 SWOT analysis
 Examples

Decision theories
 Decision process
 Decision environments
 Decision making in risk: payoff table and expected value theory,
4 Decision theories Lecture notes, Reference
 Impact of expected value of perfect information (EVPI), oppor- texts
tunity lost and sensitivity analysis
 Decision making in uncertainty - maximax, maximin, Laplace,
minimax regret and Hurwicz criteria
 Sequential decision making: Decision trees.

Manufacturing costing and break-even analysis
 Breakdown of manufacturing costs
 Linear break-even analysis – graphical and analytical methods
 Non-linear break-even analysis

5 Mathematical models in manufacturing resources allocation Lecture notes, Reference
 Basics of linear programming (LP) texts
 LP formulation and structure
 Geometry of LP
 Graphical and analytical methods of solution
 Simplex method

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