Module code: OIM4002-B
This module is designed to enable students to:
1.Appreciate the real life applicability and use of Operations Management and Information Systems in contemporary operations, both manufacturing and services.
2. Become aware of key themes within Operations and Information Systems which they can identify with.
3. Enhance their understanding of the role played by information systems in the production of manufactured goods and service good production and delivery.
Information Systems and Operations Management – their place and purpose within a working environment
General systems thinking
Design – an operational and information system perspective
Job Design – examining the role of the worker as a unit of resource
Capacity planning and control - an operational and information system perspective
Quality management systems
Interim Review and contextualisation
Quality assurance systems
Technology - an operational and information system perspective
Developing process technology
IS modelling
New trends and challenges in OM and IS
Final Review and contextualisation