Course Description

MME 492a/b Production Management for Engineers

This course examines lean production principles and practices adopted by world-class manufacturers. Topics include: continuous improvement; total quality management; statistical process control; setup reduction; total productive maintenance; just-in-time and pull production; group technology; cellular manufacturing; standard operations; level production scheduling; process balancing; supply chain management; activitiy based costing; agile manufacturing.

Corequisite: Business 299

3 lecture hours, 2 laboratory/tutorial hours, half course.

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