COURSE UNIT TITLE

: APPROACHES TO PROBLEM SOLVING IN PRODUCTION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MTS 3019 APPROACHES TO PROBLEM SOLVING IN PRODUCTION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Faculty of Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI AYDIN GÖKTAŞ

Offered to

Industrial Engineering
Textile Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (Evening)
Mining Engineering (Evening)
Geophysical Engineering
Mining Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Geological Engineering (Evening)
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering (Evening)
Geological Engineering

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to familiarize to in different engineering fields studying students, productional and administrative managements carried out in Industry, and to explain and discuss encountered problems in the production. To create groupe of students and to provide these students (wıth a given grouping projects) to have the ability making solution approaches to the encountered problems in productional and administrative management as of ; Production Management and Planning, Purchasing, Marketing, Customer complaints,Product Development, Organization, Quality, Human Resourches

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the importance and meaning of production management through discussing stock and productivity concepts
2   To discuss the effect of functions of production planninig,executive and control on qualifed production and company performance
3   To understand through discussing how the engineers to approach to solve the problems encountered in production
4   To understand the importance of Supply and purchasing management and capacity planning for problemloss and productive execution of productions
5   To have the knowledge about lean production management and flexible automation
6   To percept the significance of effect communication between marketing, production planning and production units on company performance, and to make solution approaches to encountered problems,
7   To understand importancy of quality management and providing continuity of costumer satisfaction for the protection of confidence in the brand,
8   To learn the impact of Human resourches management and Carrier planning on strategic planning of company

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to productional and administrative management
2 Problems encountered in production and expectations from engineers
3 Importance and meanings of Supply and Purchasing management
4 Increase in productivity, performance management
5 Encountered problems in production planning and solution approaches
6 Problems about marketing and costumer satisfaction and solution approaches
7 Quality management, meaning and importancy
8 Importance and meanings of Lean production management and Flexible automation comprehension
9 I. Midterm exam
10 Human resource management, career planning, Organization
11 Capacity planning, Stok management
12 Presentation of projects by student groups
13 Presentation of projects by student groups
14 Innovation and product development proceedings

Recomended or Required Reading

Operations Management,5th Edition ,Nigel Slack,Stuart Chambers ,Robert Johnston,Prentice Hall,New Jersey,2007
Principles of Operations Management,Third Edition,Jay HEIZER ,Barry RENDER, Prentice Hall,New Jersey,1999

Supplementary Book(s):
Üretim Yönetimi, Hulusi DEMIR, Aydın Yayınevi, Izmir

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Education through discussing and presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + PRJ * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + PRJ * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes ; 1-8 All exams questions
Presentations ; 1,2,4,5,7

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aydin.goktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Mondays ; 12.15- 13.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 10 1 10
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 5 5
Preparation for Final Exam 1 10 10
Preparing Group Assignments 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midtherm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.32553442
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LO.61445453
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LO.83345

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