General information


Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Joan Triadó Aymerich

Trimester: First term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Manuel eagle Garcia

Teaching languages


  • Catalan

Skills


Specific skills
  • EC15: Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems.

Transversal competences
  • CT2: That students have the ability to work as members of an interdisciplinary team either as another member, or performing management tasks in order to contribute to developing projects with pragmatism and a sense of responsibility, assuming commitments taking into account the available resources.

Description


The course aims to teach different types of production strategies that allow you to design a production system in the most efficient way. Identify the parts of production processes without added value and optimize them.

The tools that will be taught mostly in this subject to be able to design processes in the most optimal way, are the tools of the LEAN methodology and Toyota Production System.
 

Contents


Fundamentals of strategy:

  • Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
  • Type of strategy 
  • Definition of strategy and types
  • Strategic planning. strategy levels
  • Operations strategy design
  • SP location and plant distribution
  • Technological strategy

Lean Manufacturing

  • Lean basics
  • Lean methodology and implementation of tools
    • Continuous improvement (Kaizen)
    • Value Stream Mapping
    • 5's, 8 wastes, Kanban, SMED
    • LPMS
    • Visual Management
    • LPMS
    • 3P
    • TPM

 Product design in the framework of the new economy

  • New product requirements
  • Smart Product
  • Product architecture and conceptualization. Tools
    • VA / VE
  • Innovation in the area of ​​operations and production
  • Product design and circular economy
  • Formal, functional and technical design
  • Productive design. Tools

Introduction to the digital transformation of the company

  • Activity-based management models vs. resource-based management models
  • Digitization of the value chain
  • The enablers of Industry 4.0
  • Industrial information systems (MES, SCM, PLM, SCADA)

Environmental management

  • Legal regulations and environmental liability
    • ISO 14001.
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Circular economy and sustainability
  • Environmental management systems (SGMA)

 

Evaluation system


Final course exam.

Those who did not take the final exam and those who passed cannot take the make-up exam.