Course Instructor        

Professor Peter O’Grady      http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~pjogrady/        
Office Hours: 1:45  - 2:30 pm  TTh  or by appointment  2132SC 

TA: Lindsay Gilbert  lfgilber@engineering.uiowa.edu
Office  Hours: TTh 12 noon -1 pm  1307SC.

Class Times and Locations

2:30P - 3:45P TTh 2229 SC  

Prerequisites

Completing the   prerequisites is MANDATORY! The course has prerequisites 056:032 (or 56:031) AND 56:171. The pre-requisites are crucial in understanding the course material and it is therefore important that students have completed these courses prior to the start of the semester.

Course Overview

Students learn about manufacturing, supply chain and logistics systems consisting of globally distributed enterprises. The course covers industrial enterprises, production systems and the role of inventory, electronics manufacturing, forecasting systems, concurrent engineering and design for assembly. In addition, students learn about Supply Chain Management, Quality Function Deployment and Materials Requirements Planning/ERP systems. Students also learn about Lean Manufacturing, Value Stream Mapping and Six Sigma.  

Course Text

"Factory Physics" by Wallace Hopp, Mark Spearman. Hardcover. Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 3rd edition (October 2007)  ISBN-10: 0072824034 and ISBN-13: 978-0072824032.
Note 1: We will try to accommodate both 2nd and 3rd Editions to allow access to the cheaper 2nd edition.
Note 2: The 3rd Edition has a (disgustingly high) retail price  and may be difficult to obtain used (See: Rip-off 101 : How The Current Practices Of The Textbook Industry Drive Up The Cost Of College Textbooks). There is an international soft cover 3rd edition that may be available.