The emphasis will be on developing the students' understanding of important issues and techniques in production and operations. This will be accomplished by motivating the theory, illustrating it with examples, and by having the students carefully solve selected homework problems. Silver, E., Pike, D., and Peterson, R. Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling. Pinedo, M. Scheduling, Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, Prentice Hall, 1995. Two hours and 30 minutes.
Exercises are due one week after they are assigned.
Exercises can be done in teams of up to four students. The solvers available with QuattroPro or Excel spreadsheets are adequate for our purposes. Oct 20 June 27 Closed book midterm covering the material of the first six lectures. Dec 1 July 25 Operations Scheduling Read Chapter 17 . .