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INDU 211

Introduction to Production and Manufacturing Systems

3 credits · Undergraduate

Not stated · Introduction to Industrial Engineering

Topics

  • Industrial-engineering history
  • Facilities location and layout
  • Material handling
  • Work design and measurement
  • Manufacturing
  • Operations planning
  • Quality management
  • Human factors
  • Operations research
  • Engineering economics
  • Project management

Readings

  • Hillier and Lieberman, Introduction to Operations Research, McGraw-Hill.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • D.C. Montgomery, Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, Wiley.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • Vonderembse and White, Operations Management, West.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • David A. Garvin, Managing Quality, Free Press, 1988.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • Tom Taormina, Virtual Leadership and the ISO 9000 Imperative, Prentice Hall, 1996.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • White, Agee and Case, Principles of Engineering Economic Analysis, Wiley.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • Eliyahu Goldratt, The Goal.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • Listed textbook; requirement not explicitly stated: W.C. Turner, J.H. Mize, K.E. Case and J.W. Nazametz, Introduction to Industrial and Systems Engineering, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 1993.
    Listed reading
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