MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ROBERTO ROSARIO CORSINI

Expected Learning Outcomes

To achieve specific skills for the implementation and development of methods for solving short-term production planning problems:

- Modeling of production planning problems;

- Resolution of short-term production planning problems;

- Design and implementation of optimization algorithms.

Course Structure

Traditional teaching

Required Prerequisites

Nothing

Attendance of Lessons

The student has to attend at least 70% of the course lessons, see Point 3.3 of the Regolamento didattico of CLM in Mechanical Engineering

Detailed Course Content

Introduction to scheduling. Scheduling theory. The single machine problem: problems with no delivery dates, problems with delivery dates. Optimization methods for single-machine scheduling problems. Heuristic methods for the single-machine problem. Extensions of the single-machine problem. The parallel machine problem. The scheduling problem of flow shop systems. Python programming for modeling scheduling problems and implementing optimization techniques.

Textbook Information

Principles of Sequencing and scheduling, K. R. Baker and D. Trietsch, Wiley, New Jersey, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-39165-5.

Course Planning

	Subjects	Text References
1	Introduction to scheduling	Principles of Sequencing and scheduling, K. R. Baker and D. Trietsch, Wiley, New Jersey, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-39165-5.
2	Single-machine scheduling problem	Principles of Sequencing and scheduling, K. R. Baker and D. Trietsch, Wiley, New Jersey, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-39165-5.
3	Solution methods for scheduling problems	Principles of Sequencing and scheduling, K. R. Baker and D. Trietsch, Wiley, New Jersey, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-39165-5.
4	Parallel-machines scheduling problem	Principles of Sequencing and scheduling, K. R. Baker and D. Trietsch, Wiley, New Jersey, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-39165-5.
5	Flow shop scheduling problem	Principles of Sequencing and scheduling, K. R. Baker and D. Trietsch, Wiley, New Jersey, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-39165-5.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The exam is only written with exercises and theory questions.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

- Calculation of flow time for an unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem using the LPT list scheduling rule and FAM (First Available Machine)

- Implementation of the algorithm for minimizing tardy jobs

Degree Course in

Mechanical Engineering