Production and Materials Management

Contents

1. Basics of Production Management

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Nature of production and operation management

1.3 Strategies and forecasting in production management

1.4 Product

1.5 Scope of POM

1.6 Manufacturing and production types

2. Plant location and layouts

2.1 Plant location

2.2 Plant Layout

3. Production Planning and Control

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Production Planning

3.3 Production Control

3.4 Materials Handling

4. Maintenance Management

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Objectives of plant maintenance

4.3 Maintenance management cycle

4.4 Acts of maintenance

4.5 Benefits/limitations of maintenance

4.6 Models of maintenance

4.7 Categorization of maintenance

4.8 Trends in maintenance management

4.9 Maintenance economy

4.10 Organizational responsibilities in maintenance management

4.11 Maintenance techniques

4.12 Waste disposal

5. Time and Motion Study

5.1 Basic concepts

5.2 Productivity

5.3 Work study

5.4 Method study

5.5 Ergonomics

5.6 Work measurement/time study

6. Quality Control

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Stages in Quality Control

6.3 Quality Control Functions

6.4 Quality Control Engineering

6.5 Inspection

6.6 New quality concepts

6.7 Quality assurance

6.8 SQC (Statistical Quality Control)

7. Computers in Production Plants

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Computerization in material management

7.3 Computers in material planning

7.4 Distinct advantages of computer in production and material management

7.5 Computers in MIS

7.6 Computers and PIS

7.7 PPC system and computers

7.8 Computer Programme

7.9 Disadvantages of computers

7.10 Some computer softwares in material management

7.11 Computers application and health

7.12 Computers and MMIS

8. Introduction to Materials Management

8.1 Inventory management

8.2 Material planning and budgeting

8.3 Purchase management

8.4 Stores management

9. Capacity Planning

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Capacity planning and production

9.3 How to do capacity planning?

9.4 Types of capacity planning

9.5 Product mix

9.6 Capacity planning and technology

9.7 Capacity planning and cost

9.8 Economies of scale of plant

9.9 Non-profit capacity assessment

9.10 Tests related to capacity planning and performance

9.11 Capacity management

9.12 Capacity control

10. Product design and development

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Product design forms

10.3 Product design

10.4 Product life – cycle

10.5 Product Development

10.6 Product Designing features

10.7 Information Systems

10.8 Automation

10.9 Operations Strategy