Overview of manufacturing systems and various issues of interest: Assembly Line, Repetitive batch manufacturing, Cellular manufacturing, FMS, JIT, CIM.
Preplanning: Forecasting, Economic analysis, Aggregate planning, Capacity planning, Inventory planning.
Decision making in design of manufacturing systems: Group technology, Line balancing, Plant layout. Operations planning: MRP, MRP II, Hierarchical planning systems, JIT systems, FMS.
Operation and control: Lot sizing decisions, Production scheduling, Line of balance, Quality planning and control, Cost planning and control. Simulation analysis of manufacturing systems. Case studies.