Course details:
Objectives
Planning, scheduling, and controlling in productions systems are essential for operational excellence. In Industry 4.0 era, all these concepts have gained more importance than they were in the past.
This course aimed at revisiting production planning, scheduling and controlling. We start with comparing production philosophies including pull, push and hybrid systems.
For better planning and scheduling, we need to understand demand forecasting, nature of product orders, inventory management, product structure, processes and resources we use in production.
The course will also cover statistical control systems.
Planarter software will assist us for practicing with creating plans and schedules.