Course content

Introduction on industrial logistics systems. Design of the industrial facilities: product-quantity analysis, production line design and management, shop-floor design and management, cellular manufacturing and FMS.

Realization of the industrial facilities: layout design and project management. Assembly System - Introduction: cluster analysis, task definition and precedence diagram. Assembly systems layout, Workstation layout, Flexible Assembly Systems. Time Measurement System and Ergonomics. Design and balancing of assembly systems. Warehousing and Material Handling systems. New Technologies in Industrial Logistics. In-house, In-bound and out-bound logistics.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

• Basic knowledge about the design of production and logistics system.
• Understanding and use of relevant models, analytical methods and techniques.
• Insight into what constitute core technologies and automation in logistics.
• Fundamental understanding of report-writing.

Skills:

• Ability to apply acquired knowledge for developing holistic solutions within production and logistics system design.
• Ability to transform theories into practical application based on well-founded choices of relevant alternative solutions.
• Critically and independently evaluate analytical tools, methods, technical models and solutions.

General competence (attitudes):

• Understand the role of the production and logistics engineering in design more sustainable systems.
• Cooperate and contribute to multidisciplinary interaction.
• Communicate technical production problems and solutions.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and team based exercises concerning a real cases

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Recommended previous knowledge

None

Required previous knowledge

None

Course materials

Will be given at the beginning of the semester. Course material will be given in English