Integral Logistics Management — Operations Management and Supply Chain Management Within and Across Companies

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Course 7: Sections and their intended learning outcomes

  • Course 7 – The Concept for Product Families and One-of-a-Kind Production

    Intended learning outcomes: Produce logistics characteristics of a product variety concept. Explain adaptive and generative techniques in detail. Describe the use of generative and adaptive techniques for engineer-to-order. Differentiate various ways of cooperation between R&D and Engineering in ETO Companies.

  • 7.1 Logistics Characteristics of a Product Variety Concept

    Intended learning outcomes: Differentiate between high-variety and low-variety manufacturing. Describe different variant-oriented techniques, and the final assembly schedule.

  • 7.2 Adaptive Techniques

    Intended learning outcomes: Explain techniques for standard products with few variants as well as techniques for product families.

  • 7.3 Generative Techniques

    Intended learning outcomes: Disclose the combinatorial aspect and the problem of redundant data. Present variants in bills of material and routing sheets as production rules of a knowledge-based system. Explain the use of production rules in order processing.

  • 7.8 Scenarios and Exercises

    Intended learning outcomes: Apply adaptive techniques for product families. Disclose the use of production rules in order processing. Elaborate the setting the parameters of a product family.

  • 7.9 References

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