Project and Production Management

Instructor: Prof. Arun Kanda, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi.

This course provides an introduction to project and production management. Topics covered in this course include Project selection, Project planning, Project scheduling, Time-cost tradeoffs in projects, Project implementation, Production management, Lifecycle of a product system, Financial evaluation of capital decisions, Risk evaluation, Designing products and services, Facility location and layout, Demand forecasting, and Operational decisions over the short term.

Lecture - 1 Project and Production Management - An Overview.
Lecture - 2 Project Management: An Overview.
Lecture - 3 Project Identification and Screening.
Lecture - 4 Project Appraisal: Part 1.
Lecture - 5 Project Appraisal:Part II.
Lecture - 6 Project Selection.
Lecture - 7 Project Representation.
Lecture - 8 Consistency and Redundancy in Project Networks.
Lecture - 9 Basic Scheduling with A-O-A Networks.
Lecture - 10 Basic Scheduling with A-O-N Networks.
Lecture - 11 Project Scheduling with Probabilistic Activity.
Lecture - 12 Linear Time-Cost Tradeoffs in Projects.
Lecture - 13 Project Crashing with Multiple Objectives.
Lecture - 14 Resource Profiles and Leveling.
Lecture - 15 Limited Resource Allocation.
Lecture - 16 Project Monitoring and Control with PERT/Cost.
Lecture - 17 Team Building and Leadership in Projects.
Lecture - 18 Organizational and Behavioral Issues.
Lecture - 19 Computers in Project Management.
Lecture - 20 Project Completion and Review.
Lecture - 21 Life Cycle of a Production System.
Lecture - 22 Role of Models in Production Management.
Lecture - 23 Financial Evaluation of capital Decisions.
Lecture - 24 Decision Trees and Risk Evaluation.
Lecture - 25 Introducing New Products & Services.
Lecture - 26 Economic Evaluation of New Products & Services.
Lecture - 27 Product Mix Decisions.
Lecture - 28 Product & Process Design.
Lecture - 29 Issues in Location of Facilities.
Lecture - 30 Mathematical Models for Facility Location.
Lecture - 31 Layout planning.
Lecture - 32 Computerised Layout Planning.
Lecture - 33 Product Layouts and Assembly Line Balancing.
Lecture - 34 Forecasting.
Lecture - 35 The Analysis of Time Series.
Lecture - 36 Aggregate Production Planning: Basic Concepts.
Lecture - 37 Modelling Approaches.
Lecture - 38 Basic Inventory Principles.
Lecture - 39 Inventory Modelling.
Lecture - 40 Material Requirements Planning.
Lecture - 41 Scheduling of Job Shops.