Bar graph showing a bottleneck in a 20 machine production line. (Image by Prof. Stanley Gershwin.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Stanley Gershwin
Prof. Duane Boning
MIT Course Number
2.854 / 2.853
As Taught In
Fall 2010
Level
Undergraduate / Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course provides students with ways of analyzing manufacturing systems in terms of material flow and storage, information flow, capacities, and times and durations of events. Fundamental topics covered include probability, inventory and queuing models, forecasting, optimization, process analysis, and linear and dynamic systems. This course also covers factory planning and scheduling topics including flow planning, bottleneck characterization, buffer and batch-size tactics, seasonal planning, and dynamic behavior of production systems.
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