MGMT-6450 Manufacturing Systems Management

Manufacturing Systems Management
Lally School of Management and Technology - MGMT-6450

Description
An overview of how product and service requirements are translated into manufacturing facilities, procedures, and organizations. The control systems considered include demand forecasting, inventory planning, production scheduling, quality control, MRP, and project control. In addition, a management perspective is used to examine decisions having a long–term manufacturing impact: capacity planning, location, and distribution, manufacturing processes, factory layout and factory focus. The course concludes with an introduction to manufacturing policy.

Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites are required.

Textbook(s)
Ordering Information

Format
Classes: 13 weeks, 13 sessions
Assignments:TBD
Exams: TBD

Grading
Assignments: % TBD
Exam: % TBD

Computing
Access to a spreadsheet package, such as Excel or Lotus Notes. The ability to use the software's graphing feature is required.
Email access is required for course communications.

Access to Blackboard, Rensselaer's course management tool, is required. Please refer to this page for instructions on how to set up your computer for Blackboard.

Who Should Enroll
This course may be used in your Plan of Study as follows:

Degree Programs
CSCI - elective with advisor pre-approval
CSYS - may be applied toward two-course sequence or as an elective (both with advisor pre-approval)
ELEC - may be applied toward two-course sequence or as an elective (both with advisor pre-approval)
EPOW - elective with advisor pre-approval
ESCI-MM - elective with advisor pre-approval
ESCI-MOT - may be used as a Management of Technology elective
ESCI-MSE - required core course
ITEC - elective with advisor pre-approval
MANE - may be used as a Manufacturing concentration course
MBA - elective
MGMT-MS - Production/Operations concentration area or elective
MGTE - elective with advisor pre-approval (n/a for students beginning F '05)
TCOM - elective with advisor pre-approval

This course is also open to non-matriculated students who meet the prerequisite.