Proceedings of the 20th Meeting of theSCHOOL OF MECHANICAL

Academic Council of VIT held on 26.3.2010

AND BUILDING SCIENCES
Vellore 632 014, Tamil Nadu, India.

PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS

MEE404 LTPC: 3 0 0 3
MANAGEMENT
Version No. 1.0.0
Course Prerequisites -
Objectives: To Expose the Students to the concepts of Production and
operations Management.
To understand the interdisciplinary nature of Management.
Expected Outcome: The Students will be familiar with basic concepts of
Management and able to apply the concepts to optimize the
production.
Unit No. 1 PLANT LOCATION Number of hours: 8
Introduction to Production Management and Concepts, Location of Facilities, Facilities Layout.
Unit No. 2 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND Number of hours: 9
SUPPLY OF RESOURCES
Inventory Management, Purchase and supply, Materials Management, ABC Analysis.
Unit No. 3 QUALITY CONTROL AND Number of hours: 10
INSPECTION
Statistical Quality Control Methods, X, R Charts Etc.,
Unit No. 4 PROJECT PLANNING Number of hours: 10
Network Models, PERT, CPM etc.,
Unit No. 5 DECISION MAKING Number of hours: 9
General Model for decision making Bayes Decision Rule, Decision Tree Method, Decision Making
under Uncertainty and Risk

Text Book & 1. Production and Operations Management Ray Wild :Holt Rinehart &
References Winston
2. Quantitative Business Analysis David Eugine Smith John Wiley & Sons
3. Production and Operations Management Dr.Varma and Agarwa1: Forward
Publishing Co.
4. Production and Operations Management S.N. Chary: Tata Mcgraw Hill
5. Production and Operations Management David Buffa: John Wiley &
Sons
Mode of Written Examination, Assignment and Seminar
Evaluation
Recommended
by the Board of
Studies on
Date of Approval
by the Academic
Council

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