Lead Faculty: Dr. Shekar Viswanathan

Prerequisite
None

Course Description
This course focuses on the fundamentals of scheduling capacity planning and lot sizing applied to manufacturing and production.  Advanced quality assurance and control topics including multivariate quality control methods, machine control, flexible communications networks, forecasting to develop master production schedules, coordinate inventory ordering policies, periodic review, sequencing and scheduling methods of flow and job shops, principles and methods of analyzing and solving production problems are discussed.