COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OPERATIONS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IND 5057 OPERATIONS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞEYDA AYŞE YILDIZ

Offered to

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
Industrial Engineering - Thesis (English) (Evening Program)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - NON THESIS (ENGLISH)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM) (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

Every organization needs to schedule its operations effectively in order to remain competitive in today's markets. This course gives an introduction to a broad range of scheduling problems that arise in both manufacturing and service organizations. We will first review most of the basic scheduling issues and solution methodologies we encounter in manufacturing and service organizations and then cover those topics including dispatching rules, local search procedures, job shop scheduling, flexible assembly systems scheduling, lot sizing and scheduling, interval scheduling, and personnel scheduling.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To make the students aware of the scheduling problems that arise in both manufacturing and service organizations.
2   To develop the students' analytical abilities in solving the scheduling problems.
3   To make the students use specific scheduling softwares
4   To develop the students' skills in conducting empirical research on scheduling problems and in making oral presentations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Manufacturing and Service Models
2 General Purpose Scheduling Procedures
3 General Purpose Scheduling Procedures
4 General Purpose Scheduling Procedures
5 Machine Scheduling and Job Shop Scheduling
6 Scheduling of Flexible Assembly Systems
7 Economic Lot Scheduling
8 Planning and Scheduling in Supply Chains
9 Interval Scheduling, Reservations, and Timetabling
10 Planning and Scheduling and Timetabling in Transportation
11 Workforce Scheduling
12 Project Presentations
13 Project Presentations
14 Project Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Michael Pinedo, Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services, Springer, 2009
Michael Pinedo, Xiuli Chao, Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services, Irwin Mc-Graw Hill, 1999
Colin R. Reeves, Modern Heuristic Techniques for Combinatorial Problems, McGraw-Hill International Ltd., 1995

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. Besides the taught lecture, student presentations are organized and presented at the scheduled lectures.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Şeyda Topaloğlu
e-mail: seyda.topaloglu@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 301 7611

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparation for homeworks 3 10 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for term paper 1 30 30
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 189

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.14
LO.23
LO.34
LO.4343

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