Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Introduction to Industrial Engineering

Code

10574

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial

Credits

3.0

Teacher in charge

Virgílio António Cruz Machado

Weekly hours

3

Total hours

55

Teaching language

Português

Objectives

  • To provide an overview of Industrial Engineering areas and activities
  • To exemplify and study a number of quantitative methods used in Industrial Engineering

Subject matter

  1. Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management: definitions, distinctions and complements.
  2. Scientific and professional domains of Industrial Engineering. Productivity, competitive and optimization concepts.
  3. Industrial Engineering in industry and services.
  4. Introduction quantitative methods: linear programming model. Graphical solution.
  5. Inventory analysis: variables and costs. ABC classification of items and the Pareto principle. Periodic versus continuous review policies. The basic economic order quantity model (EOQ).
  6. Introduction quantitative forecasting methods. Components most common in time series forecasting. Simple moving average and simple exponential smoothing. Forecasting error: mean squared error and mean absolute deviation.
  7. Queueing theory: system configuration and measures of system performance. D/D/1, M/M/1 and M/G/1 models.
  8. Project planning and scheduling. Network-based project scheduling methods: PERT/CPM. Gantt charts. Computing the project completion time and critical path: the two-pass method.

Bibliography

Heizer, J. e Render, B. (2006), Operations Management, 8ª Ed., Prentice Hall, New Jersey.

Chase, R.B., Aquilano, N.J. e Jacobs, F.R. (1998), Production and Operations Management: Manufacturing and Services, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 8ª ed., Boston.

Courtois, A., Pillet, M. e Martin, C. (1997), Gestão da Produção, Lidel Edições Técnicas, Lisboa.

Machado, V.H. (2001), Apontamentos de Gestão de Stocks, FCT/UNL, Caparica.

Tavares, L., Oliveira, R., Themido, I.  e Correia, F. (1996), Investigação Operacional, McGraw-Hill de Portugal, Lda., Alfragide.

Teaching method

To present main concepts, illustrated with practical examples, the expositive method is adopted. Oral questions are frequently made for stimulate the students participation, prerequisite control and knowledge assessment. Students resolve exercises and perform case studies with preparation in advance and final report done by team work. Active and experimental methods are adopted. Case studies results analysis is discussed in class.

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