After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• ... to understand the current challenges for production sites
• ... to assess the current situation of the production site by means of analysis methods
• ... to use the analysis results as a basis for planning
• ... to explain the procedure of factory planning
• ... to explain the most important methods for factory planning and to apply them
• ... to present and apply the most important methods of production optimization
• ... use digital tools to solve factory planning tasks

• Introduction to factory planning
• Versatility as a central challenge
• Basics of factory planning
• Procedure and methods of factory planning
• pre-planning
• structural planning
• system planning
• realization
• factory optimization
• Value Stream Mapping
• OEE method

Lecture:

• Blocked frontal lecture in which the essential methods of factory planning and production optimization are explained using real case studies.

Exercise:

• The students have to apply the learned factory planning methods in a case study in small groups.

• Written test on the contents of the lecture
• Protocol and presentation of the results of the exercise
• Both parts must be positively evaluated for a positive completion of the course