Capacity planning and control (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After studying the course the student:
-will be able to do production planning
-will understand why and how capacity planning and control is carried out in production environment
-will be able to select appropriate methods and techniques for planning and controlling production process.
-will be able to do capacity planning and control for different kind of processes in different industries in different time horizons
-will be able to create and run a basic simulation model of production process by using a simulation tool and use the simulation for process improvement

Content

-Production process types and ways of managing different processes
-(Production) planning in different time horizons (S&OP, production planning, MPS, production activity control)
-Capacity management: capacity planning decisions, capacity planning and control techniques
-production simulation