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• Information Fusion
• Congestion in Facilities Location and Layout
• Facility Layout (Re)Design
• Agile Manufacturing
• Real-Time Visualization
• Sensor Networks
• Facilities Design and Cellular Manufacturing
• Operations of Production Systems
• Variant Design
• IE 684: Networks, Routing, and Logistics
• IE 661: Scheduling Theory
• IE 620: Agile Manufacturing
• IE 505: Production Planning and Control
• IE 504: Facilities Design
• IE 500: Special Topics: Logistics and Supply-Chain Management
• IE 327: Facilities Design
• IE 320: Engineering Economy
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Teaching Interests
IE 620: Agile Manufacturing
•Course Overview
•Course Topics
•Staff
•Basic Requirements
•Required Work and Grading Policy
•References
•Lectures and Handouts
•Assignments and Projects
| Course Overview |
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This graduate level course covers topics, enabling techniques/technologies,
and case projects in agile manufacturing. It provides a core set of fundamental
tools, example applications and open research topics. The objective is to expose
participants to agile manufacturing issues, and enable them to creatively synthesize
and apply the tools covered to open research problems. It blends quantitative and
qualitative material, from multiple disciplines of industrial and management
engineering (production systems, information systems and modeling, operations
research and human factors), and bears relevance for academic as well as
industrial pursuits. The introduction consists of the emerging paradigm shifts
in manufacturing strategy and agile manufacturing as an answer to global
competitiveness. Two recent research projects shall be discussed as case
studies. The following topics will be covered.
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Introduction to Agile Manufacturing
Case research projects in Agile Manufacturing
Information Modeling and Technology issues
Product data models (PDES/STEP); EXPRESS, EXPRESS-G
Enterprise/Function modeling; IDEF0, IDEF1X, IDEF3
Entity-Relationship and Object-oriented modeling
Petri-Nets
Introduction to client/server and network technologies
Database issues
Integrated Product and Process Design
Interdisciplinary design
Cooperative/Collaborative design
Integrated Production Scheduling and Logistics
Virtual enterprise scheduling
Supply Chain Management
Operations Research issues: Distribution/Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Game Theory applications, Fuzzy decision making
Human Factors/Organizational issues: Human Network organization and people empowerment
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Staff
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Instructor:
Dr. Rakesh Nagi, Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo
342 Bell Hall Box 602050
Buffalo, NY 14260-2050
U.S.A.
Telephone: (716) 645-2357
FAX: (716) 645-3302
E-mail: nagi@eng.buffalo.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Teaching Assistants:
TBA
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| Basic Requirements |
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Graduate standing in engineering or management
General understanding of the production function
Self motivation & a cooperative learning attitude
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| Required Work and Grading Policy |
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1. Homework - 4-5 assignments 20%
2. Class presentation - 1 lecture during the semester 10%
3. Project - one progress report, one final report, one presentation 40%. A
semester long project will be performed, addressing a specific problem
related to Agile Manufacturing. It should cover an in-depth literature survey
related to the topic, and identify open topics from a research and/or practice
perspectives. Methods covered in the course are encouraged to be applied to
providing a solution to some part of the overall problem. Recommendations for
further work should be included in the final report.
4. Exams - one midterm, one final 30%
Note: (+/- Grading scheme will be employed)
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| References |
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General References:
1. Goldman, S.L., Nagel, R.N. and Preiss, K., Agile Competitors and
Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer, Van Nostrand
Reinhold, NJ, (1994). [High level executive view]
2. Kidd, P.T., Agile Manufacturing Forging New Frontiers,
Addisson-Wesley, Reading, MA, (1994). [High level and human organization view]
3. Nagel, R.N. and Dove, R., 21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise
Strategy, Iacocca Institute, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, (1992).
[Where it all began]
4. Information Technology for Manufacturing: A Research Agenda,
National Academy Press, Washington, DC, (1995). [Where we should go]
5. Schenck, D.A. and Wilson, P.R., Information Modeling: The EXPRESS
Way, Oxford University Press, New York, (1994). [for Information modeling
and EXPRESS language]
6. Whitten, J.L., Bentley, L.D. and Barlow, V.M., Systems Analysis &
Design Methods, Third Edition, Irwin, (1994). [basic text for
SA&D/Information Systems]
Articles:
1. Port, O. and Carrey, J. (1991). "This is What the U.S. Must
Do to Stay Competitive," Business Week, Dec. 16, pp. 92-96.
2. Pandiarajan, V. and Patun, R. (1994). "Agile Manufacturing Initiatives at
Concurrent Technologies Co.," Industrial Engineering, 26(2), pp. 46-49.
3. Park, H., Tenenbaum, J.M. and Dove, R. (1993). "Agile Infrastructure for
Manufacturing Systems (AIMS)," AIMS project report, Lockheed Missiles &
Space Co., Sunnyvale, CA (Available on the Web).
4. IEEE Spectrum, September 1993, Special Issue: "Manufacturing à la
Carte: Agile assembly lines, faster development cycles."
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| Lectures and Handouts |
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06/14/2003: Lecture 1
06/14/2003: Handout 1
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| Assignments and Projects |
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06/14/2003: Project 1
06/14/2003: Assignment 1
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