1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MM580 Management Practices
fi credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination, assignment and class participation
A fifth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Mechanical)
Objectives
To address the key issues for managing productive and
innovative engineering environments and to provide further
elective study in management practice areas of prime student
interest.
Content
This subject includes managerial concepts and practices that
engender a cooperative working environment required for
'World Class' productive and innovative engineering. It
consists of a compulsory core in which the key elements for
managing productive and innovative (typically that
associated with research and development) environments are
studied. Students then select an elective from one of the
following
Engineering leadership: project management; research and
development management; risk management; occupational
health and safety management; maintenance management;
informatics management; production management.
Elements of a productive environment: the working
environment; factors contributing to work performance,
structures of control. alternative social relations of
production, managerial goals and organisational structure;
impact of technology on work, social environment,
occupational health and safety. The engineering
environment; optimisation of a system of technology and
people for maximising the desired engineering outcomes;
new applications of technology, socio-technical systems
analysis for specification, selection and implementation of
total technical and working environment requirements.
Job design to sustain cooperative and productive engineering
environment: perspectives of the labour process and factors
contributing to the design of jobs, needs and policies in the
recruitment and selection of achievers, socio-technical
analysis and design of optimum engineering system and
people combinations.
Elements of an innovative environment: relationship
between work design and engineering innovation (e.g.
flexible specialisation). Managing change; understanding the
psychology of change, specifying, designing, planning,
negotiating and implementing change. Managing innovation;
social dimensions of creativity, invention and technology;
technological diffusion and economic analysis of innovation.
Recommended reading
MacLeod R. (ed.), Technology and the Human Prospect Essays in
Honour of Christopher Freeman. London, Frances Pinter, 1986
Rothwell, R. and Zegveld, W., Innovation and the Small and the
Medium Sized Firm Their Role in Employment and in Economic
Change. London, Frances Pinter, 1982
Sarfati, H. and Kobrin, C. (ed.), Labour Market Flexibility A
Comparative Anthology. Aldershot, Gower, 1988
Windolf, P. and Wood, W., Recruitment and Selection in the
Labour Market A Comparative Study of Britain and West Germany.
Aldershot, Avebury, 1988
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MM581 Manufacturing Systems Modelling
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignment, projects and exam
A fifth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing)
0 b jectives
To introduce modelling concepts, techniques and solutions
applied to manufacturing systems as tools in identification,
structuring and analysis of problems leading to real decision
making.
Content
The syllabus covers modelling concept, classifications;
optimisation models appllied to resource allocation,
networks, capacity planning, maintenance, assembly lines;
introduction to a commercial LP/NLP package and its
application to some cases; stochastic models, applications in
reliability, maintenance; markovian analysis; simulation
modelling: concept, benefits, applications, languages,
packages; introduction to and applications of a commercial
simulation package (simfactory); statistical analysis,
reliability modelling.
Recommended reading
Neelarnkavil, F., Computer Simulation &Modelling. Chichester,
Wiley, 1987
Peterson, E.R., PROPS Probabilistic Optimisation Spreadsheets.
Kingston, Ont., Alwington Press, 1988
Williams, H.P., Model Building in Mathematical Programming. 3rd
edn, Chichester, Wiley, 1990
Winston, N.L., Operations Research Applications &Algorithms.
2nd edn, Boston, Mass., PWSKent, 1991
MA4582 World Class Manufacturing Systems
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: project work or assignment, exam
A fifth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
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0 b jectives
To give the student an understanding of the current trends
in manufacturing via thorough investigation of Content,
relevance and interrelationships of JIT, TQC, quality circles,
maintenance, reliability. Discussions to be supported by
video and seminars.
Content
Theory Z management style resembling the Japanese
approach towards management, productivity through
employee involvement, trust and respect for the individual,
implicit control.
VAM concept/philosophy, definitions, planning,
implementation.
JIT concept, elements/levels, comparison with traditional
method, requirements, training, government participation.
TQC concept, management improvement, employees
attitude, environmental implementation.
Quality circles people's participation in problem solving,
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