IE429 TOPICS IN PRODUCTION PLANNING
| Course Code: | 5680429 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- At the end of the course, the students will
- Understand basics of automated manufacturing sytems.
- Be able to model the automated manufacturing system design problem that have Markovian property.
- Conduct experimental analysis for automated manufacturing systems.
- Learn the necessary tools to analyze and plan the automated manufacturing systems.
Course Content
Automated manufacturing and production management in automated manufacturing. Performance issues and stochastic modeling of automated manufacturing. Factory dynamics in production lines.
Course Learning Outcomes
- List required equiment and hardware for a given process flow
- Describe the required integration for a given automated machining cell
- State basic trade-offs in a flow line design problem
- Analyze throughput rate for a given flow line with markovian property
- Design a flow line with available equipment alternatives and required throughput rate
- Analyze the reliability of a flow line using failure rates and properties of machines
- Conduct computational experiments to test the performance of a given flow line
- Statistical analysis of the output of computational experiments
- Apply queueing theory to analyze automated flow line performance
- Use markov chain models to evaluate reliability of an automated flow line