Introduction to Industrial Engineering

Objectives

  • To provide an overview of Industrial Engineering areas and activities
  • To exemplify and study a number of quantitative methods used in Industrial Engineering

General characterization

Code

10574

Credits

3.0

Responsible teacher

António Carlos Bárbara Grilo, Helena Maria Lourenço Carvalho Remígio

Hours

Weekly - 6

Total - 45

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Chase, R. B., Jacobs F. R. e Aquilano N. (2005), Operations Management for Competitive Advantagwith Global Cases, 11ª ed., McGraw-Hill Publishing Co, UK.

Heizer, J., Render, B. e Munson, C. (2017), Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, 12ª ed., Pearson, New Jersey. 

Roldão, V. e Ribeiro, J. S. (2014), Gestão das Operações. Uma Visão Integrada2ª ed., Monitor, Lisboa.

Slack N., Chambers S. e Johnston R. (2016), Operations Management, 8ª ed., Prentice Hall, Harlow.

Stevenson, W. (1998) Productions/Operations Management, 6ª ed., Irwin/McGraw-Hill.

Teaching method

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Evaluation method

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Subject matter

Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management. Definitions, differences and complementarity.
Management and production systems in industry and services. Concepts of productivity, competitiveness and optimization.
Operations management.
Project management.
Materials management.
Layout. Balancing assembly lines.
Quality management

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