Julie Swann
 
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6201 Spring 2003: Manufacturing Systems

Instructor

  • Dr. Julie Swann
    phone: (404) 385-3054; fax: (404) 894-2301, Groseclose 317
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    Office Hours by appointment

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Miscellaneous

  • (1/6) Syllabus is available.
  • (1/6) Pre-course Questions (to be turned in): .pdf version and .doc version
  • Bring your namecard to class every day. Quizzes or candy may be used to encourage this.
  • Solutions, grades, and confidential material will appear on ITWeb
    (Other class material is provided below.)
    Here are instructions for accessing it. Please register ASAP.
  • Mass emails to the class will be sent through an ISyE listserve (which goes to your gt address). Check your email regularly.
  • Please write your last name first and then first name on all assignments and exams.

Lectures

Assignments

  • Littlefield Game 2: Overview  
    Data Available for this game tuesday 4/1 at 5pm.
    The report is due Apr 17.
  • Littlefield Game : Due 4/1, tuesday. Overview   Assignment
    Students should register their teams at this page entering the registration code "gatech" when prompted.
    Once the simulator has started, students can access their teams from this page.
    Data Available for Littlefield game this wednesday 3/19 at 5pm.
    Littlefield game begins this thursday 3/20 at 5pm.
  • Read for Class
    • (1/6) Read Chapters 0 and 1 to prepare for quiz game in class on Fri 1/10
    • Read sections 2.1-2.2 and 17.1 - 17.3 for Tues 1/14. SPP Ch 5 is supplemental.
    • Read 2.4 for 1/16. Supplemental is SPP Ch 10.
    • Supplement with SPP textbook (library); sections TBA.
    • Read 2.4 in FP and 7 in SPP for class on Tues 1/28.
    • Read 4.1- 4.6 (3/11)
    • Read 7.1 - 7.3 (3/13)
    • Read 8.1 - 8.7 (3/20, 3/25)
    • Read 9.1, 9.3-9.7, 10.4 (3/27, 4/1)
    • Read Ch 18, 10.1 - 10.3, 10.5 (4/8)
    • Read Ch 13 (4/10)
    • Read Ch 15 1-2 (4/10)
  • Article Assignments
    • (1/6) Find a reading related to course topics and summarize by Tues Jan 21.
    • (1/23) Find a reading related to course topics and summarize by Feb 4, Tuesday. Some Article links in Resources
      See syllabus for more info. This may be turned in electronically on ITWeb or handed in during class. Late assignments will not be accepted. Bring a copy to class, as select students will share their article.
    • (2/25)Article assignment is due Thursday, March 13th.
  • HW Problems
    • (1/14): Ch 2 Study ?'s 1 - 5; Problems 4 - 7. Ch 17 Study ?'s 1 - 4, Problem 1. Soutions available on ITWeb
    • (1/23) : Practice Problems Set 1PDF
    • (2/4) : Practice Problems Set 2 PDF
    • (2/6) : Practice Problems Set 3 PDF
    • (3/11) : Ch 3 Study questions 1, 25 on Pages 146,150.
    • (3/11) : Ch 3 Problems 2-6, 9, 11, 12.
    • (3/11) : Practice Problems Set 4
      Solutions will be on ITWeb in about a week.
    • (3/18) : Ch 7 Study questions 1-5, Problems 1-3, 4-6, Intuition building exercises 1,2
    • (3/18) : Ch 8 Study questions 1-7, Problems 1-6, 8
    • (3/18) : Ch 9 Study questions 1-6, Problems 1-9, 12, 14, 15 Intuition building exercises 1,2
    • (4/10) : Ch 18 Study questions 1-5, 7. Ch 10 Problems 1-4.
    • (4/22) : Ch 13 Study questions 5-6, Problems 1,4.
    • (4/22) : Ch 15 Study questions 1-12, Problems 1-3,5.
    • Analyze serial batch processing with partial lot splitting, i.e., when parts are moved in batches of size m, which may be different than the process batch of size k. Solve to optimality for k and m if possible
    • Prove that EDD rule is optimal for min {max lateness} on single machine.

Solutions

  • HW Solutions will be available in ITWeb.
    Go to the Assignment Calendar, and the solution file is attached to an assignment.

Exams

  • Date for the first exam is Feb 18. Sample Quiz Syllabus
  • Date for the second exam is Apr 3.Formula sheet  Syllabus
  • Final Exam is Monday, Apr 28. For the final, you may make a cheat sheet if you want (front and back of one page, or the front only of 2 pages). In addition, formula sheet from the second exam and a normal probability table will be provided. The final is comprehensive but weighted more heavily towards the untested (last 1/3) of the class.
  • Final Notes There will be problems surely on forecasting, production scheduling, and conwip. Also, there should be something that is conceptual and something on modeling, but one problem on the exam will be optional.
  • After the second Littlefield report is graded, full grade calculation will be on ITWeb. Letter grades without the final will be on ITweb, so that you can decide if you want to take the final or not.

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Announcements

Field trip to tour Ford plant is being organized.
Date for the first exam is Feb 18. Checkout the Exams section for sample quiz and syllabus.
Article assignment is due Thursday, March 13th.
Please write your last name first and then first name on all assignments and exams.
Please check the list of teams for Littlefield game.

 

 

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