Target of the lecture is to depict the challenges of global operating companies and to give an overview of central aspects and methods in production planning. The lecture will regard site-related production factors and give the basic steps in site-selection, before the planning of manufacturing systems is focused. Herein, not only the planning phases are regarded, but also the methods used.

The topics are:

• Challenges of global production
• Establishing of new production sites
• The basic steps in manufacturing system planning
• Steps and methods of factory planning
• Manufacturing and assembly planning. Assembly panning will be focused
• Layout and material flow of production sites
• Production planning and control basics

Learning Outcomes:

The students …

• can explain the challenges of global production.
• can explain site-related production factors.
• can name the basic steps in site-selection.
• can explain the basic steps in planning a production site.
• are able to explain methods of production analysis, layout planning, production planning and control, etc.
• can apply the methods to new problems.
• can explain links between different planning steps.

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