MICRO-448 / 3 credits

Teacher(s): Gallay Olivier, Filliger Roger

Language: English


Summary

This course discusses quantitatively some important and generic performance and reliability issues that affect the behaviour of supply chains, and in particular manufacturing systems.

Content

Keywords

Stochastic manufacturing systems, production flows, hedging stock policies, inventory management, supply chain dynamics, discrete-event simulations.

Learning Prerequisites

Recommended courses

MATH 234 Probabilities and Statistics, or similar.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

  • Identify and characterize the relevant parameters that are influencing material flows in production lines.
  • Synthesize the influence of buffers on the performance of transfer lines.
  • Compute optimal hedging stock policies.
  • Model the general dynamics of simple supply chains, and discuss linear stability issues.
  • Examine the behaviour of manufacturing systems and supply chains using a discrete-event simulator.

Assessment methods

Final written exam (80% of the grade), project work during the semester (20% of the grade).

Resources

Ressources en bibliothèque

Notes/Handbook

Manuscript and slides available in English.

Books:

  • Manufacturing Systems Engineering by Stanley B. Gershwin
  • Factory Physics by W. J. Hopp and M. L. Spearman
  • Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems by J. A. Buzacott and J. G. Shanthikumar

In the programs

  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Oral (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Manufacturing systems and supply chain dynamics
  • Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: Oral (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Manufacturing systems and supply chain dynamics
  • Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exam form: Oral (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Manufacturing systems and supply chain dynamics
  • Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks

Reference week

 MoTuWeThFr
8-9     
9-10     
10-11    CE1103
11-12    
12-13    CE1103
13-14     
14-15     
15-16     
16-17     
17-18     
18-19     
19-20     
20-21     
21-22     

Friday, 10h - 12h: Lecture CE1103

Friday, 12h - 13h: Exercise, TP CE1103