Production Systems 1 (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Objective

Production systems the course gives an overall picture of the development of the company's production to be more competitive. You will learn to plan satisfactorily the different aspects of the company's production activities so that you take the whole into account. The development of your expertise begins with the understand of modern production activities, thinking about strategic issues and choosing the right development tool based on them. After completing the course, you will be able to develop production activities comprehensively towards better competitiveness.

Engineering practice:
You are able to develop complex production systems to meet economic and technical requirements.

Investigation and information retrieval:
You are able to perform simulations and analyses for detailed examination and research of technical problems.

Content

Basic choice of production stategies, paradigms of production (for example: BPR, BSC, CE, CIM, Constraint Theory, JIT, Kaizen, Lean). Goals of production and measuring them, analysis target for development of production.

Materials

Luentomateriaali.
Jussi Heikkilä, Mikko Ketokivi: Tuotanto murroksessa, Talentum, Helsinki 2005
Kivisaari-Sundbäck: Tuotantojärjestelmien suunnittelu: osa I: tuotantojärjestelmien kehittämisen ismejä

Teaching methods

Lectures/Virtual lectures, case study

Exam schedules

Lähitentti lukukauden viimeisellä viikolla. Uusintatentit (2 kappaletta) välittömästi edellisten tenttien tulosten selvittyä.

Student workload

Lectures 18 hours, case study 60 hours and independent study work 57 hours. All together 135 hours.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The overall assessment consists of 50% of the exam and 50% of the training and laboratory work.
The exams are arranged three times in accordance with the degree rules.

Adequate (1): You are able to identify the basics and terminology of general merchandise production, but you have significant shortcomings in perceiving the interconnection of things.

Satisfactory (2): You know the basics and terminology, but you have shortcomings in perceiving the interconnection of key issues.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3): You master the key issues of the course:
- you are familiar with the key concepts and methods of general cargo production
- you are able to use development methods to solve the problems of general cargo production or to develop your operations satisfactorily.

Very good (4): You master key concepts and methods of general merchandise production and are able to apply them critically in solving and developing the problems of general cargo production, e.g. in the case of general cargo production. exercises and exercises.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5): You master key concepts and methods of general cargo production and are able to apply them critically and innovatively in solving and developing production problems, e.g. in the case of production problems. practice, practice.

Qualifications

The students have a general view of the production of manufacturing industry.

Further information

Personal/group feedback about all tasks. Personal feedback about examination.