Southern Methodist University Course: EMIS 5362/7362
Production Systems Engineering
(formerly: Production and Operations Management)

Fall, 2009, TuTh, 3:30-4:50 p.m. (Central) Science Information Center Room 362

Course Objectives

Production is the process of converting resources into manufactured goods. Similarly, operations is concerned with organizing people and technology to deliver services to customers. The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with a variety of methods for forecasting, planning, scheduling and controlling quality for production and operations systems.

This course applies the principles of engineering, or “design under constraint,” to modern production systems. Topics include: production systems analysis and design considerations, systems design and optimization models and methods, pull- and push-based production systems,  quality engineering, process improvement, plus techniques for engineering and managing systems with specific architectures: batch-oriented, continuous-flow, projects, and just-in-time.

Students learn to manage processes within an organization. Specific techniques are studied for forecasting, planning and operating production and operations systems in today's competitive environment.

The class is offered by the Department of Engineering Management, Information and Systems

• on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas and
• by streaming video from the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering

Class Support:

• Classroom: SIC 362
• Course home page (you are here):
  faculty.smu.edu/barr/pom
• Class Blackboard (log in with your SMU id number and email password)
• Course administrative support, Tammy Sherwood, (tsherwoo at engr.smu.edu)
  EMIS Department, SIC 356 (map)
  (214) 768-1100   fax: (214) 768-1112