Capacity planning and control (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Spring 2025.
Timetable will be clarified in the beginning of the course.

Content:

Production process types, layouts and production strategies.
Resource planning, S&OP, aggregate production planning, MPS, scheduling, production activity control.
Capacity management: capacity planning decisions, capacity planning and control techniques, OEE.
Business Siulation Realgame

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

Materials

Vollman et al: Manufacturing planning and control for Supply Chain Management, copies of chapters available in ITS Learning
1 Manufacturing planning and control
3 Demand management
5 Sales and operations planning
7 Master production scheduling
10 Capacity planning and management
11 Production activity control
Business Simulation Game student material
other material in ITS Learning

Teaching methods

By listening, reading, examining, analyzing, synthesizing, explaining others and writing to learn more of Production planning.and learning by doing

Exam schedules

Exam will take place at the end of the course. Time will be discussed at the beginning of the course.
Re-exam can be taken two times. Time will be informed later at the end of the course.

International connections

Lectures, simulating, learning by doing, PBL, Information searching, small group work.

Sustainable development goals:
4. Quality education
5. Gender equality
9. Sustainable industry and innovations
12. Responsible consumption and production
13. Climate action

Completion alternatives

not available

Student workload

5 cr = 135 hours students work.

lectures, exercises and exam
individual exercises and group works given during the lecturers.
Business Simulation Game will be used in this course
Exam + preparations

Further information

Discussion during lectures, ITS-learning and e-mail.