Gestão da Produção e das Operações

Objectives

The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge on the general foundations of Production Management and its evolution to current Operations Management (GPO). After completing this course the student should be familiar with the basic theoretical and methodological concepts of Operations Management being able to identify, solve and analyze the most common problems in Operations Management in Organizations.

Syllabus

1- From Production to Operations Management - its evolution. What is Operations Management: introduction, characterization, brief history and current challenges. 2- Corporate Strategy and Operations Management. From strategy to operationalization in operations; 3- The different productive processes: characterization, representation and choice - procedural analysis and performance measurement. Process-Product Matrix; 4-Operations Planning: The planning process. Strategies for aggregate capacity planning. Analytical models for aggregate planning. Breakdown of the aggregate plan. Production master plan and material requirements plan. Analytical and heuristic models for batch sizing. 5-Scheduling and sequencing: Batch scheduling. Model based on process representation in resource-task networks. Machine task scheduling: models and heuristics

Cross Competence Component

The UC allows the development of a set of transversal competences, namely in: Critical and Innovative Thinking - developing creativity, strategic thinking, and approaches to identify, analyze, and solve the project and on the answer to classroom quizzes; Interpersonal and interpersonal skills - developing communication and organizational skills, teamwork, self-discipline, perseverance, self-motivation and time management, aspects required when solving and presenting and discussing the project. Information and media literacy - ability to locate and access information as well as to analyze and evaluate media content related to UC practical component. The related assessment percentage is in the order of 10%.

Laboratorial Component

The UC involves in the practical component the mathematical modeling of operations management problems, namely planning/scheduling. The use of excel and modeling / optimization software is explored (eg GAMS; Anaconda). The laboratory component corresponds to 10% of the classes.

Programming And Computing Component

Problem modelling and optimization in production and operations management

Ethical Principles

All members of a group are responsible for the group's work. In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.