This site is devoted to quantitative procedures that are helpful
for the design and operation of manufacturing systems. The
section is divided into four main categories. The Design
section includes procedures that can be used while designing
a system including: Economics,
Facility Layout
and Process Flow
Analysis. The Operation
section includes procedures that are useful during the day-to-day
operation of a system including: Inventory
Theory and Material
Requirements Planning. Both design and operations are
considered in the Computations
section where one finds instructions for Microsoft Excel add-ins
that are available for download from the Excel
Download page. The Problems
section holds problems that illustrate the methods and that
can be used for instruction.
The design subjects are often taught in an Industrial Engineering
Program, while the operation subjects are often taught in an
Operations Management Program, thus giving rise to the name
of this site (OM/IE). The front page includes links to the Operations
Research Models and Methods (ORMM)
site. That site describes many more topics that relate to the
more general area of Operations Research (OR). Some are useful
for manufacturing system analysis.
The materials presented can be of value to students, faculty
and practitioners. Students will find the tools to solve most
analytical problems that are presented by familiar texts in
OM, OR or IE. Faculty members will use the add-ins to construct
interesting problems for use in classes. Practitioners may find
the add-ins useful for small applications.
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