Manufacturing systems and supply chain dynamics
MICRO-448
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Summary: This course discusses quantitatively some important and generic performance and reliability issues that affect the behavior of supply chains, and in particular manufacturing systems.
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Schedule: Friday, 10:15 to 13:00, CE 1103
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Announcement:
No course on Fridays April 18th and April 25th (Eastern break).
Course of Friday May 30th (Ascension Friday) is a Q&A session and is rescheduled to Monday June 2nd from 13:30 to 15:00 (on Zoom, https://unil.zoom.us/j/4420078827).
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Exam Format:
- Oral exam
- Counts for 80% of the final grade
- All documentation allowed (manuscript, slides, books, personal notes)
- 2 questions on 2 different topics
- Preparation: 10 minutes for preparing both questions
- Exam: 9 minutes discussion per question
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Exam Schedule (oral exam on Wednesday 2nd July, 2025, PH H3 33):
N.B., reverse-alphabetical order won the toss over alphabetical. Switches are allowed on a voluntary and self-organized basis (to be communicated to us beforehand).
Preparation Exam Start Exam End Name
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Project Work:
- Up to 3 people per group (registration via moodle).
- Report to be handed in before Monday June 2nd 2025 at midnight (report to be sent to us by e-mail: roger.filliger@bfh.ch / olivier.gallay@unil.ch).
- Counts for 20% of the final grade.
- Please select your group at the end of this section ("Groups for the Project").
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- Project Assignment (File)
- Groups for the Project (Group choice)
- MSSCD Manuscript (File)
- AnyLogic Tutorial (File)
- Announcements (Forum)
- Forum for your questions (Forum)
- Chapter 0: Course Description
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Slides Chapter 0 (Course Description) (File)
- Slides Chapter 1 (File)
- AnyLogic - Single Machine (File)
- Chapter 2: Inventory Theory
- Slides Chapter 2 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 8 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 9 (File)
- Lot Size Model - Planned Shortage (File)
- Lot Size Model - Planned Shortage - Calculations (File)
- Lot Size Model - Quantity Discount (File)
- AnyLogic - Lot Size Model (File)
- Chapter 2: Inventory Theory
- Newsvendor - Example (File)
- Newsvendor - Airline Analogy - Overbooking (File)
- Correction - Exercises 10 & 11 (File)
- Chapter 3: Safety Stock in Manufacturing Systems
- Chapter 4: Elements of Queueing Theory
- Slides Chapter 3 (File)
- Slides Chapter 4 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 12 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 13 (File)
- AnyLogic - Little's Law (File)
- prone to failure machine (File)
- Chapter 4: Elements of Queueing Theory
- Correction - Exercise 16 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 17 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 14 - M/M/1/inf (File)
- Queueing Theory - M/M/s/K (File)
- Queueing Theory - Example 6 - M/M/1/3 (File)
- Queueing Theory - Example 6 - M/M/2/3 (File)
- Application - Battery Switch Station (File)
- AnyLogic - M/M/1/inf FIFO vs LIFO (File)
- AnyLogic - M/M/1/inf vs M/M/2/inf (File)
- AnyLogic - M/M/1/3 vs M/M/2/3 vs M/M/2/4 (File)
- Chapter 5: Production Flows
- Chapter 6: Production Dipole
- Slides Chapter 5 (File)
- Slides Chapter 6 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 20 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 21 (File)
- Matlab - Exercise 21 (File)
- Correction - Exercises 23 & 24 (File)
- AnyLogic - Machine Disruption (File)
- AnyLogic - Dipole Machines (File)
- Chapter 6: Production Dipole
- Chapter 7: Production Lines and Aggregation
- Introduction to the project
- Slides Chapter 7 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 25 (File)
- Aggregation - Example 8 (File)
- AnyLogic - Tripole Machines (File)
- Chapter 9: Introduction to Queueing Networks
- Slides Chapter 9 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 29 (File)
- Correction - Exercise 30 (File)
- Queueing Networks - Example 10 (File)
Eastern Holidays: No Course
- Chapter 8: Cooperative Flow Dynamic
- Chapter 9: Introduction to Queueing Networks
N.B. Chapter 10 (Supply Chain Analysis) may not be taught this year.
- Q&A Project (in-class, CE 1103)
- Chapter 11: Elements of Reliability Analysis
- Chapter 12: Maintenance
No Course (Ascension Friday): Rescheduled to Monday June 2nd, 13:30-15:00 (Q&A)