Production Planning and Control. Modern methods of production planning and inventory. New production planning and control methodologies such as time-based manufacturing, Theory of Constrains, group technology, and flexible manufacturing. Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems. Flow lines, assembly systems, cellular manufacturing systems, and flexible manufacturing systems.
Emphasis is on methodologies for modeling, analysis and optimization.
Simulation of Manufacturing Systems. Experimental design for simulation, random number generation, selection of input distributions and simulation output evaluation. Warehousing and storage, facility layout and location, material handling, and material transportation distribution. Survey of computational tools and algorithms for solving constrained and unconstrained optimization problems. Emerging search techniques and heuristics.