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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Joan Triadó Aymerich

Trimester: First term

Credits: 4

Teaching staff: 

Francesc Flores Salgado

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 3

Languages ​​of instruction

  • Catalan

Competencies / Learning Outcomes

Specific skills

  • K18. Identify the elements and variables for the justification of supply, production, storage and distribution plans.

  • K28. Identify the company's function, costs and production process.

  • K33. Identify the different sources of renewable energy and the technologies related to their implementation.

  • S26. Design an industrial plant.

  • S29. Use energy efficiency techniques in a company.

  • S30. Carry out a balance of inflows and outflows (raw materials, energy, water, waste, etc.) of any process.

  • S33. Apply their capacity for critical analysis, self-knowledge, emotional intelligence and their ability to learn to learn to resolve the situations they have to face within their personal or professional sphere.

  • S40. Apply quality control to manufacturing systems and processes.

  • C8. Carry out analyses and write technical reports on IT and management products and solutions.

  • C20. Carry out the assigned work based on basic guidelines given, deciding how much time to spend on each section, including personal contributions and expanding the sources of information indicated.

  • C23. Properly organize the company's business processes.

  • C27. Evaluate and implement the necessary actions to correct possible deviations from what has been planned and effectively execute the assigned role within the team.

Presentation of the subject

Subject framed in the matter of direction of operations. The course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts, principles and foundations of product design and production processes, including aspects related to environmental management and maintenance. It also reviews the possibilities offered by new digital technologies incorporated in the industrial plant, working on the concepts of smart product and smart manufacturing. Other notable concepts are also worked on such as process simulation, labor study, advanced demand forecasting models, and new types of production organization. 

 

 

Contents

 

 

Content title 1: Introduction to production and manufacturing systems

(RE6, RE9, RE12, RE14)

Dedication: 12

Large Group: 5

Small Group: 

Autonomous learning: 7  

Description
  • Review of concepts
  • Production strategies
  • Types of production systems
  • Demand forecasting techniques: multivariate regression models (linear and logistics), ARMA, ARIMA
  • Production planning, scheduling and control: MRP, MRP II, ERP
  • The plan of operations and quality

Related activities
  • Face-to-face classes to explain theoretical concepts

- ACTIVITY 4: Exam
       

 

Content title 2: Product design and development

(LO3)

Dedication: 16

Large Group: 5

Small Group: 2

Autonomous learning: 9 

Description
  • Product strategy and life cycle
  • Concurrent engineering, value engineering and QFD
  • DFMA
  • Life cycle management: PLM
  • Smart Product

Related activities
  • Face-to-face classes to explain theoretical concepts

-ACTIVITY 1: REENGINEERING: WE REDESIGN FROM ZERO.

-ACTIVITY 3: COMPLETE DESIGN OF A JIT-BASED PRODUCTION SYSTEM.

-ACTIVITY 4: Exam
       

 

Content title 3: Selection and design of production processes

(RE5, RE9, RE14, RE16)

Dedication: 22

Large Group: 7

Small Group: 3

Autonomous learning: 12  

Description
  • Tools for process analysis and design. Process reengineering
  • Capacity needs planning
  • Production technologies (extractive manufacturing, additive manufacturing, advanced robotics ...)
  • Modeling and simulation of manufacturing processes
  • Digitization of the production process. MES, IoT i Smart manufacturing
  • Process quality control
  • Environmental management
  • Maintenance management

Related activities
  • Face-to-face classes to explain theoretical concepts

-ACTIVITY 1: REENGINEERING: WE REDESIGN FROM ZERO.

-ACTIVITY 3: COMPLETE DESIGN OF A JIT-BASED PRODUCTION SYSTEM.

-ACTIVITY 4: Exam
       

 

Content title 4: Distribution in plant and design of the work

(LO4, LO9)

Dedication: 32

Large Group: 9

Small Group: 3

Autonomous learning: 20

Description
  • Type of layout (orientation to functions, product, in warehouses, in cell ...)
  • Balanced lines. Assignment of machines and work planning
  • Measurement and design of the work. Study of methods
  • Introduction to industrial robotics
  • Prevention of occupational hazards

Related activities
  • Face-to-face classes to explain theoretical concepts

-ACTIVITY 2: TRANSFORMATION OF AN IN-LINE PRODUCTION FACILITY INTO A MANUFACTURING CELL.

-ACTIVITY 3: COMPLETE DESIGN OF A JIT-BASED PRODUCTION SYSTEM.

-ACTIVITY 4: Exam
       

 

Content title 5:   Lean Manufacturing

(LO6, LO9, LO12)

Dedication: 18

Large Group: 4 

Small Group: 2

Autonomous learning: 12  

Description
  • Principles Lean
  • Process value analysis (VSM)
  • Problem solving techniques: SMED, just-in-time, TPM ...

Related activities
  •  Face-to-face classes to explain theoretical concepts

-ACTIVITY 3: COMPLETE DESIGN OF A JIT-BASED PRODUCTION SYSTEM.

-ACTIVITY 4: Exam
       

 

 

 

Activities and evaluation system

Qualification system (evaluation)

 

 

ACTIVITIES

PES discipline

EXAMS

60%

WORKS

20%

WORK EXPERIENCE

20%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attendance at the theoretical and laboratory sessions, and the delivery of the corresponding reports of the activities is a necessary condition for the evaluation of the subject.

 

It will be up to the teachers of the subject to decide on the possibility of adding activities that allow the recovery of the suspended activities.

 

It is compulsory to carry out all the activities to obtain the final grade of the subject. The algorithm for calculating the mark is only applied if the weighted average mark of the Exam Activities is greater than or equal to 4. Otherwise the subject is suspended.

 

The recovery exam only gives the option to pass the subject with a grade of 5, except in the case where the weighted average grade of the first 4 activities is equal to or higher than 8. In this case the final grade will correspond to the weighted average grade of all the activities in the subject (the make-up exam corresponds only to the Exams activities).

 

For the other activities, if the result of their evaluation is not satisfactory, or the teachers consider it opportune, they will be able to summon members of a group to carry out an individualized evaluation test.

 

Important:

Any form of academic fraud will be sanctioned in accordance with the regulations
evaluation of the center. In the event that signs of fraud are detected, including the improper use
of generative artificial intelligence tools, the subject's teachers will be able to
call the student for an individual interview with the aim of verifying
the authorship.

Bibliography

Basic

Guasch Petit, J; Piera, MA; Figueras Jové, J; Casanovas, J. (2009). Modeling and simulation: Application to logistics processes of manufacturing and services. Politex.

Heizer, J., Render, B. (2015). Production and operations management. Flight. Strategic decisions. Ed. Prentice Hall.

Heizer, J., Render, B. (2015). Production and operations management. Flight. Tactical decisions. Ed. Prentice Hall.

Hillier, Frederick S .; Lieberman, Gerald J. (2010). Introduction to Operations Research. McGraw-Hill.

Complementary

Chase, Aquilano & Jacobs. (2014). Production and Operations Management. (13th ed.) Mexico: McGraw Hill.

Krajewski, LJ, Ritzman, LP and Malhotra, MK. (2013). Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains: Global Edition. Ed. Pearson.

Russell, RS and Taylor, BW (2014). Operations and Supply Chain Management, 8th Edition, Wiley.