Production Management

Production management is a course which perfectly synthesizes management with engineering. After completing the course a candidates can join as trainee production manger, or quality controller, or supervisor or so on. Production managers organize the resources and services necessary to producing millions of goods each year. Managerial duties vary by plant, but many major responsibilities are nearly the same for all production managers, including production scheduling, staffing, procuring and maintaining equipment, overseeing quality and inventory control, and coordinating production activities among departments. Production managers have numerous responsibilities, but their primary function is to lay out the production schedule so that production quotas are met but financial and time constraints are respected. These managers use mathematical formulas and other means to analyze and coordinate the plant’s personnel and capital resources. They decide which machines to use, what new machines, if any, need to be purchased, whether overtime or extra shifts will be required, and what the sequence of production will be. Once the production run commences, they monitor it to ensure that it stays on schedule and to fix any complications that may arise.

With the increased flexibility, industrial production managers can explore ways to enhance the assembly and manufacturing process. For example, manufacturing cells and stations can quickly react to changes in customer demand; this flexibility helps businesses striving to limit their stock of finished products make sure that inventories will not get too low. Monitoring product quality is another responsibility of production managers. They inspect samples of finished goods, noting any defects in order to create statistical analyses of quality control problems. Conventional quality control programs respond only to problems once they reach a specified level of significance, but some modern management techniques and programs like ISO 9000, Total Quality Management (TQM), and Six Sigma stress quality improvement at all stages.

Institutes providing Production Management course

1. Annamalai University, Annamalainagar

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