Manufacturing systems and supply chain dynamics

Summary

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

Content

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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.

Transversal skills

• Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
• Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
• Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools
• Write a scientific or technical report.

Assessment methods

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

Supervision

Office hours	No
Assistants	No
Forum	Yes

Resources

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

No

Ressources en bibliothèque

• Manufacturing Systems Engineering / Gershwin
• Factory Physics / Hopp

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

Moodle Link

• https://go.epfl.ch/MICRO-448