IE 7201: Production & Service Systems Engineering

Spring 2025
Instructor: Spyros Reveliotis

Course Materials

  1. Course Introduction (PowerPoint Presentation)
  2. The CK Equations for CTMCs (pdf file)
  3. Little's seminal paper on the corresponding law -- OR 1961 (pdf file)
  4. Wolff's seminal paper on PASTA -- OR 1982 (pdf file)
  5. An example on the MVA of closed QNs (pdf file)
  6. An Introduction to Manufacturing System Layouts and Flowline Control Mechanisms (PowerPoint Presentation)
  7. Flow Dynamics of Asynchronous Transfer Lines and their modelling through G/G/m queues (PowerPoint Presentation)
  8. The excel spreadsheet for the ATL design problem discussed in class (Excel file)
  9. Flow Dynamics of CONWIP-controlled Lines and a unifying framework for flow line analysis and design (PowerPoint Presentation)

Homework and Homework Solutions

  1. Homework #1 (pdf file)
  2. Homework #1 Solutions (pdf file)
  3. Homework #2 (pdf file)
  4. Homework #2 Solutions (pdf file)
  5. Homework #3 (pdf file)
  6. Homework #3 Solutions (pdf file)
  7. Homework #4 (pdf file)
  8. Homework #4 Solutions (pdf file)
  9. Homework #5 (pdf file)
  10. Homework #5 Solutions (pdf file)

Exams

Exam Solutions

  1. Midterm Solutions for Spring 2015 (pdf file)
  2. Final Solutions for Spring 2015 (pdf file)
  3. Midterm Solutions for Spring 2016 (pdf file)
  4. Final Solutions for Spring 2016 (pdf file)
  5. Midterm I Solutions for Spring 2017 (pdf file)
  6. Midterm II Solutions for Spring 2017 (pdf file)
  7. Midterm I Solutions for Spring 2018 (pdf file)
  8. Midterm II Solutions for Spring 2018 (pdf file)
  9. Midterm I Solutions for Spring 2019 (pdf file)
  10. Midterm II Solutions for Spring 2019 (pdf file)
  11. Final Exam Solutions for Spring 2019 (pdf file)
  12. Midterm I Solutions for Spring 2020 (pdf file)
  13. Midterm II Solutions for Spring 2020 (pdf file)
  14. Final Exam Solutions for Spring 2020 (pdf file)
  15. Midterm I Solutions for Spring 2022 (pdf file)
  16. Midterm II Solutions for Spring 2022 (pdf file)
  17. Final Exam Solutions for Spring 2022 (pdf file)
  18. Midterm I Solutions for Spring 2023 (pdf file)
  19. Midterm II Solutions for Spring 2023 (pdf file)
  20. Final Exam Solutions for Spring 2023 (pdf file)