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 in part
• ... to present and apply the most important methods of production optimization

• 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

• frontal lecture
• Video analysis of case studies
• Presentation and discussion of case studies
• Application of planning methods in dialogue with the students
• brainstorming session
• discussion

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