Module Description

Professional competences:

Participants can:

• Understand functional relationships in production processes, analyze them based on typical key figures and KPIs, and evaluate them comparatively using basic metrics.
• Solve fundamental issues in logistics.
• Make quantitatively sound control decisions in production and logistics.

Methodological competences:

Participants can:

• Select problem-specific suitable modelling approaches, apply them to concrete production processes, and develop solutions based on this.
• Apply selected quantitative optimization approaches and interpret the results.

Self-competences:

Participants can:

• Apply the acquired expertise (production management) to manageable practical examples.
• Acquire specialized knowledge from given literature independently, identify gaps and close them by asking specific questions.

Social competences:

Participants can:

• develop answers to concrete tasks appropriate to the target audience

Topic area I: Process Design

• Characteristics of production processes
• Model and evaluate production processes
• Improvement in production processes

Topic area II: Special Approaches to Productions Management

• Supply Chain Management
• Lean Management
  
  

Topic area III: Quantitative Methods in Operations Management

• Deterministic Inventory Optimization (Economic Order Quantity- Modell and Extensions)
• Stochastic Inventory Optimization (Newsvendor Problem; α- and β- Service Levels)

During in-classroom teaching, lecture blocks alternate with application and reflection tasks. The aim is to achieve a timely, intensive engagement with the inputs and thus create the basis for a dialogue-oriented teaching.
This approach is deepened by additional tasks to be solved in self-study between the contact lessons, thus creating occasions for explorative learning and more in-depth discussions at the beginning of each subsequent contact lesson.
Various short videos are used to help students visualize typical production problems.

Mandatory:

• made available on Moodle:
  
  • Slide scripts (+ reader on selected topics)
  • Roman Hänggi: LEAN Production easy and comprehensive, Springer Verlag 2022 
  • Tasks with solutions
  • Video links with evaluations

Optional:

• Ulrich Thonemann: Operations Management - Concepts Methods and Applications; 3rd updated edition, Pearson Verlag 2015; ISBN 978- 86894-221-7
• Corsten, Hans; Gössinger, Ralf: Produktionswirtschaft : Einführung in das industrielle Produktionsmanagement, 13., vollst. überarb. und erw. ed.; Oldenbourg-Verlag, 2012.
• Winston, Wayne L., Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, Vol. 4. Duxbury Press, 2004.