It is highly recommended that students should have passed the second year subject of economics and chemical industry.
This subject is focused on the topics related to Business Organization. This subjects also belong to the common module of industrial stream. The existence of this subject in the Chemical Engineering degree is justified given the necessity of providing the students the required tools to kwow: i) What is the importance of the manufacturing planning and control for a company and what is its role to achieve a competitive advantage; ii) how to determine the future organization demand using both quantitative and qualitative forecasting models; iii) how production planning ought to be organized on the basis of demand forecasts considering capacity, resources and cost factors; iv) the economic order quantity of inventory assets; v) the different stock control policies and production system based on "just in time" philosophy.
In addition, this subject help student get a deeper insight in the production subsystem previously introduced in the 2º course subject "Economics and Chemical industry"
| Course competences | |
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| Code | Description |
| CB03 | Be able to gather and process relevant information (usually within their subject area) to give opinions, including reflections on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues. |
| E15 | Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems. |
| E17 | Applied knowledge of business organization. |
| G01 | Capacity for the direction, of the activities object of the engineering projects described in the competence G1. |
| G02 | Knowledge in basic and technological subjects, which enables them to learn new methods and theories, and give them versatility to adapt to new situations. |
| G03 | Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of Chemical Engineering. |
| G08 | Capacity for organization and planning in the field of the company, and other institutions and organizations. |
| G09 | Ability to work in a multilingual and multidisciplinary environment. |
| G17 | Synthesis capacity |
| Course learning outcomes | |
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| Description | |
| To have skill when planning production demand. | |
| To know the main production planning tools at different levels of aggregation from the aggregate planning to the Production Master Program. | |
| To possess capacity to differentiate operative and strategic decisions from production. | |
| To know the operation that describes the control of production and inventories through the MRP methodology. | |
| To be able to implement in MS-Excel the main algorithms of demand forecasting. | |
| Additional outcomes | |
| Description | |
| To be able to analyze the different factors that can influence both decisions regarding quality and statistical quality control tools. | |
| To have skills for project management through PERT-CPM algorithms | |
| To understand the diverse short-range production planning tools | |
| To know the Lean-Just in Time production system. | |
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Unit 1: Introduction
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Unit 2: Demand management
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Unit 3: Aggregate production planning
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Unit 4: Master Production Schedule
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Unit 5: Material Requirement Planning
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Unit 6: Short-range planning
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Unit 7: Lean-Just in Time philosophy
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Unit 8: Production control
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Unit 9: Quality management
| Training Activity | Methodology | Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021) | ECTS | Hours | As | Com | Description | |
| Class Attendance (theory) [ON-SITE] | Lectures | CB03 E15 E17 G01 G02 G03 G08 G09 | 1.5 | 37.5 | N | N | ||
| Computer room practice [ON-SITE] | Practical or hands-on activities | E15 E17 G03 G09 G17 | 0.3 | 7.5 | Y | N | ||
| Workshops or seminars [ON-SITE] | Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL) | CB03 E17 G01 G02 G08 G17 | 0.3 | 7.5 | Y | N | ||
| Group tutoring sessions [ON-SITE] | Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL) | CB03 E15 G01 G02 G08 G17 | 0.2 | 5 | Y | N | ||
| Progress test [ON-SITE] | Assessment tests | CB03 E15 E17 G01 G02 G03 G08 G09 G17 | 0.1 | 2.5 | Y | N | ||
| Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] | Self-study | E15 E17 G01 G02 G03 G08 G09 G17 | 3.6 | 90 | N | N | ||
| Total: | 6 | 150 | ||||||
| Total credits of in-class work: 2.4 | Total class time hours: 60 | |||||||
| Total credits of out of class work: 3.6 | Total hours of out of class work: 90 | |||||||
As: Assessable training activity Com: Training activity of compulsory overcoming (It will be essential to overcome both continuous and non-continuous assessment).
| Evaluation System | Continuous assessment | Non-continuous evaluation * | Description |
| Theoretical exam | 0.00% | 100.00% | |
| Assessment of problem solving and/or case studies | 15.00% | 0.00% | |
| Portfolio assessment | 15.00% | 0.00% | |
| Mid-term tests | 35.00% | 0.00% | |
| Mid-term tests | 35.00% | 0.00% | |
| Total: | 100.00% | 100.00% |
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Continuous assessment:Those students that do not pass the subject via continuous evaluation, they should go through one written final exam with all the contents (theoretical and practice) of the subject
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Non-continuous evaluation:Evaluation criteria not defined
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