| COURSE NUMBER: |
QUAN 6610 |
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| COURSE TITLE: |
Designing, Managing and Improving Operations |
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
Prerequisite: Graduate (MBA) student status and MATH 3110 or
equivalent. This course will provide students with the tools to quantitatively
study business problems. The students will learn to organize their
thoughts such that the best available data can be used to generate optimum
solutions to problems. Production management, design of experiments,
and statistical quality control will be emphasized. Prerequisite:
Graduate (MBA) student status and MATH 3110 or equivalent course. |
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
The principal learning outcomes of this course are to have each student
develop and demonstrate knowledge and basic skills related to:
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The concepts of process design and improvement, the management of technology,
and quality, in the context of fast-response organizational systems and
competitive strategy
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Understand the relationship between organizational systems and the key
elements of quality philosophy and quality strategy
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Use of the "7 QC tools" and the "7 management tools" to understand, communicate
and improve processes
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Application of quantitative methods of linear programming, time series
of forecasting, basic inventory models, waiting lines and MRP in the design
and operation of production systems
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| RELATIVE TOPIC EMPHASIS
Topics |
Approximate
Class Hours
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| 1. Fast-response organizational systems and quality
strategy |
9
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| 2. Problem solving methods |
9
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| 3. Quantitative methods for process development |
14
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| 4. Production system design and operation |
13
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45
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