Course: Operational Management

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Course title Operational Management
Course code KŘE/OPM
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vaněček Drahoš, prof. Ing. CSc.
Course content
Lectures: 1. New technologies and 4th industrial revolution. 2. Robotization. 3. Production system and manufacturing management. 4. Operations strategy and competitiveness. 5. Standardization, Work measurement. 6. Measuring time to improve organisation. 7. Organization of work - new approaches. 8. Arrangement of working conditions, ergonomics. 9. Managing production processes. 10. Process capability. 11. Value management and innovation. 12. Electricity and smart systems. 13. Production and environment. 14. Information management and the use of cloud technologies in operational management. Seminars: 1. Introduction. Assign of seminar projects. 2. Measuring of productivity. 3. Decision making process: selecting the most appropriate option. 4. Standardization, production standards. 5. Time and Motion study. 6. Creating work standards. 7. Arrangement of the workplace. 8. Operational planning. 9 Assembly line balancing. 10. Reliability of systems. 11. Test. 12. Statistical Quality Control. 13-14. Presentation of seminar projects.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
Operations management is the set of activities that creates value in the form of goods or services by transforming inputs into outputs. Regardless of whether the end product is good or service, the production activities that go on in the organization are referred to as operations or operations management. The subject deals with issues of production management and labour processes, first of all with methods of labour improvement, labour environment (ergonomics), layouts and material flow design, value analysis, quality control, process management and new trends (smart systems, robotization, Industry 4.0, cloud).
Students will understand the processes of creating value added and the necessity to remove all form of wastes from processes. Experience of Toyota Production System, both positive and negative, will be analyzed. New approaches to lean production (Bosch Production System) are presented in detail.
Prerequisites
No special prerequisites are necessary for the course Operations management.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination, Seminar work

Credit Requirements: Successful completion of the test at least obratining 70 % of the credit test. Active work on seminars. Processing seminar projects and submitting calculation of given examples from the seminars for review. Examination Requirements: At least obtaining 70 % of the exam test. Oral and written exam.
Recommended literature
  • Fiala, P. Operační výzkum-nové trendy. Professional Publishing, 2011.
  • HEIZER,J., RENDER,B. Operations management. 2004. ISBN 0-13-120974-4.
  • Keřkovský, M., Valsa, O. Moderní přístupy k řízení výroby. C. H. Beck, 2012.
  • Mařík, V. Průmysl 4.0. Výzva pro Českou republiku. 2016. ISBN 978-80-7261-440-0.
  • RUSSEL, R., TAYLOR, B. Operations Management. 2009. ISBN 978-0470-23379.
  • SVOBODOVÁ, H., VEBER, J. a kol. Produktový a provozní management. Praha, 2006. ISBN 80-245-1083-9.
  • Svozilová, A. Zlepšování podnikových procesů. Grada, 2011.
  • VANĚČEK, D., FRIEBEL, ŠTÍPEK, V. Operační management. České Budějovice, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7394-196-3.
  • VANĚČEK, D. Organizace výroby a práce (cvičení). České Budějovice, 2000. ISBN 80-7040-465-5.
  • VANĚČEK, D. Organizace výroby a práce. České Budějovice, 2001. ISBN 80-7040-480-9.


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