Dear Students, As a part of production and operations management course, you are required to submit Project (term paper)

assignments: 15 Marks (write up and presentation) : Cases (will be uploaded on resource center: you are expected to read and come prepared in the classes, Each batch will have to make one presentation) Assignment : Will be discussed in the class and presentation will be done batch wise.

For project work (term paper) Pick any subject matter of Operation Management. Go deeper in the subject based on [a] Literature review of Journals/Books (Use online library for connected articles) [b] Internet surfing through search engines [c] field study by visiting a specific manufacturing unit or service organization. Some of Internet site addresses, as identified by one author are given for reference. (Some sites are reported to be non-functional) Summarize your analysis based on above in the following chapter scheme: Subject Selected Literature Review Internet Review Recent advancements/case/discussions and comments References of literature, www sites, journals, organizations visited

The report should not be more than 20 pages, excluding annexure and should use Time-Roman 12 pt font size in 1.5 spaces. A few suggested topics are as follows: 1. Agile Manufacturing 2. Bench-marking 3. Business Process Re-engineering 4. Capacity planning 5. CIM 6. Critical Chain method in Project Management 7. Design of goods/services 8. E-Operations 9. Ergonomics 10. ERP 11. Critical issues in International Production/operations/Projects Management (preferably discussion and details of a manufacturing and a Service organization) 12. ISO-9000/PCMM/SEI-CMM models/CII-EXIM awards 13. IT enabled Services Operations 14. JIT 15. JIT-II 16. Lean Manufacturing 17. Location/Layout design 18. Manufacturing strategy 19. Manufacturing Resources Planning 20. MS-excel for operation management problems (Specific) 21. MS-project application(Specific) 22. MS-Solver Problems(Specific) 23. Process Mapping 24. Product development process
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25. Production Planning & Control 26. QFD 27. Quality Management 28. Six Sigma 29. Sustainability Trends in Operations Management 30. SPSS-For operation management problems 31. Web enabled Supply Chain Management 32. Technological Forecasting 33. Theory of Constrains 34. Work Design Note: In one section, only one group can chose one subject. There will be no two similar topics in one section. Please coordinate with class rep to finalize the group topics by 17th January13. Failing which, random allocation will be made. Best wishes

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Select Internet Resources

1.Operations and Productivity American Productivity and Quality Centre: http://www..apqc.org/ Centre for Productivity Enhancement at the University of Masschusetts : http://dragon.cpe.umi.edu/index.html US Government Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://stats.bls.gov/ 2.Operations Strategy for Competitive Advantage Business Policy and Strategy, Division of the Academy of Management http://comsp.com.latrobe.edu.au/bps.html Global Industry Profiles of Strategies: http://www.agilityforum.org/ Manufacturing Strategies, maintained at Cranfield University http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/public/mn/ 3.Operations in a Global Environment Global Inventory Project (GIP) of the G7 countries. These are country efforts to inventory projects and studies relevant to the information society. Many countries are joining this effort. Three sites are: http://nii.nist.gov/g7/g7-gip.html (United States) http://www.ispo.ece.be/g7/projects/theme1.html (European Community) http://strategies.ic.gc.ca/ (Canada) International Trade Net : http://www.intl-tradenet.com/ 4.Managing Quality American Society for Quality : http://www.asq.org/ ISO Central Secretariat : http://www.iso.ch/welcome.html Juran Institute : http://www.juran.com/ National Institute of Standards and Technology : http://www.quality.nist.gov/ Quality Digest : http://www.qualitydigest.com/ Quality Progress : http://www.qualityprogress.asqc.org/ Vilfredo Pareto and other economists : http://www.diogenes.Baylor.edu/ Supplement 4 : Statistical Process Control American Society of Quality : http://www.asq.org American Statistical Association : http://www.amstat.org/ Associated Quality Consultants : http://www.quality.org/ Poka-yoke examples, tutorials and links page :
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http:/www.cox.smu.edu/jgrout/pokayoke.html Princeton University : Extensive links to a number of interesting sites http://www.princeton.edu/-cap/contrib.html Statistical Engineering Division of the Department of Commerce http://www.ilt.nist.gov/div898/ Statistical Service at Duke University : http://www.isds.duke.edu/ Total quality engineering: http://www.tqe.com/ University of Florida : Extensive links to a variety of statistical sites maintained by the Department of Statistics : http://www.stat.edu/ulib/statistics/html/ 5.Forecasting Guide to the web for Statisticians - Statistical Methodology : http://www.maths.uq.oz.au/~qis.webguide/methods.html Journal of Time Series Analysis : http://www.blackpublishers.co.uk/scripts/webjrnl.idc ?issn=01439782 Nonlinear Analysis of Retail Performance : http://atila.stevens-tech.edu/-dvaccari/ieee.html 6.Design of Goods and Services Examples of bad design http://www.baddesigns.com Centre for Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology http://daedalus.edc.rmit.edu.au/ Concurrent Engineering Virtual Environment Demo : University of Herfordshire : http://www.mansys.herts.ac.uk/ider/design.html Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing http://greenmfg.me.brkeley.edu/ Green Design Initiative : Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cc.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/research.html ISO 14000 Information Centre sponsored by the Environmental Industry Website : http://www.iso14000.com/ Rapid Design Exploration and Optimization Program, Defense Advance Research Projects Program : http://elib.cme.nist.gov/radeo/ Saturn Case Study in Engineering Design http://bishop.berkely.edu/develop/saturn/banner.html 7.Process Strategy and Capacity Planning Agility Forum : http://www.agilityforum.org American Consulting Engineers Council : http://www.acec.org Association for Manufacturing Excellence : http://www.ame.org Business Process Reengineering Study Group : http://www.bprsg.org.uk Business Process Reengineering on-line learning center tutorial : http://www.prosci.com/index.htm Process Innovation (Department of Defense) http://www.dtic.dla.mil/c3i/bpred/
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Supplement 7: State-of-the-Art Technology in Operations Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute : http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/ Business Research in Information and Technology : http://www.dtic.dla.mil/ Oak Ridge Centers for Manufacturing Technology : http://www.oml.gov/orcmt/oremt.html The Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing Systems maintains an FMS newsletter at http://199.217.7.39 8.Location Strategies National Association of Manufacturers : http://www.nam.org/ Site Selection Magazine: http:/www.conway.com/webss.htm Economic Development Service (consulting service) : http://www.sitelocationassistance.com/ 9.Layout Strategy Discussion of solutions to assembly-line problems that require parallel workstations http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/-gfrazier/abstract.htm Discussion of branch and bound procedure to solve a variety of assembly line-balancing problems: http://www.bwl.th-darmstadt.de/BWL3/forsch/projeckte/alb/index.htm Commercial layout software from Cimtechnologies http://www.cintech.com Various facility designs plans: http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/mmh/ 10.Human Resources and Job Design American Compensation Association: http:/www.ahrm.org/aca/aca.htm Bibliography on interpersonal relationships and teams: http://mercury.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/ppm/ppm29.htm Bibliography on teams and teamwork: http://mercury.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/ppm/ppm5.htm Ergonomics at University of Toronto: http://vered.rose.toronto.edu/ Human Modeling by Transom Technologies : http://www.transom.com/ IBM Report on Teams and Teamwork : http://www.oise.on-ca/~bwillard/ideateam.htm Occupational Safety and Health Administration : http://www.osha.gov/ Supplement 10: Work Measurement Institute of Industrial Engineers: http://www.iienet.org/ Methods Time Measurement Association : http://www.mtm.org/ 11.Supply-Chain Management Logistics Information on the Web : http://www.dsii.com/link1.html
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Northwestern University Logistics Page : http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/faculty/anupind:/ftp/omd55/ logistics/download.html Purchasing Magazine Web Site : http:/www.manufacturing.net/magazine/purchasing American Supplier Institute : http:/www.amsup.com 12.Inventory Management APICS : The Educational Society for Resource Management : http://www.apics.org Centre for Inventory Management : http://www.inventorymanagement.com Institute of Industrial Engineers : http://www.iienet.org Inventory Control Forum : http://www.cris.com/-kthill/inventory.htm List of inventory control related sites : http://www.cris.com/-kthill/sites.htm Supplement 12 : Just-in-Time Systems Business Open Learning Archive, United Kingdom : http://wwwbs.wlihe.ac.uk/~jarvis/bola/jit/index.html JIT Overview, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia : http://kernow.curtin.edu.au/www/jit/jit.html Kanban-An Integrated JIT System : http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1848/japan21.html 13.Aggregate Scheduling APICS courses : http://www.mgi.org/apics.html Introductory discussion of aggregate scheduling : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/drshofm/kenc/TB/tech/aggreg.htm 14.Material Requirements Planning (MRP) APICS Consulting Forum : http://lionhrtpub.com/apics-6-96/consultant.html APICS Study Material References provided by Business Systems Specialities, Inc. : http://www.wp.com/BSSI/CPIMLST.htm Armstrong Management Group Maintains a Web site with cases and articles related to ERP and MRP : http://www.interlog.com/-arm SAP America : http://www.sap.com 15.Short-Term Scheduling A Generic Approach to the Vehicle Dispatching Problem : http://mjmi.engin.umich.edu/Conf/NO95/TALKS/TE14.2.html Hierarchial Scheduling : http://www.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/pma/project/complan/appsched.html Scheduling Methods : http://mjmi.engin.umich.edu/Conf/NO95/TALKS/TE03.html Shop Floor Control : http://www.business.sc.edu/business/CENTERS/TEMA25.HTM Short-Term Scheduling in the Apparel Industry :
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http://mjmi.engin.umich.edu/Conf/NO95/TALKS/TB08.3.html Vehicle Routing & Dispatching for a Major US Blood Center : http://www.informs.org/Conf/WA96/TALKS/TC18.3.html 16.Project Management Job Site Documentation Software for Windows : http://www.csiwin.com/project.html PERT Chart EXPERT is an add-on product for Microsoft Project that adds extensive PERT charting : http://www.jsaproj.com/prod02.htm PERT Chart (and a Gantt Chart) for a Small Construction Project : http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/courses/arch232/chart.html PERT Chart and WBS Chart add-on products for Microsoft Project : http://www.criticaltools.com/ Project Management uses traditional analytical tools to plan schedule and track complex projects : http://cher.eda.doc.gov/agencies/dac/projmgt.html 17.Maintenance and Reliability National Information Centre for Reliability Engineering : http://enre.umd.edu//reinfo.htm Penn State University reliability Home Page : http://wisdom.arl.psu.edu/ Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals : http://www.smrp.org/smrp.html Society for Reliability : http://www.sre.org/

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