| 1 | To provide an understanding of the operations management function in manufacturing and service industries and its relationship with the other functional areas |
| 2 | To teach the importance, types, and measure of productivity |
| 3 | To provide an understanding of the production systems |
| 4 | To understand the concept of operations strategy and its role in the competitive strategy of an organization |
| 5 | To develop an understanding of the key criteria utilized in facility location |
| 6 | To provide an understanding of analytical techniques in facility location |
| 7 | To develop an understanding of facility layout concept and factors affecting layout selection and design |
| 8 | To teach types of plant layout |
| 9 | To provide an understanding of process layout, product layout and cellular layout |
| 10 | To introduction basic issues in the basic motion elements and work analysis |
| 11 | To understand the work measurement and to learn the computation of standard time |
| 12 | To develop an understanding of the capacity planning and of the methods utilized in capacity planning |
| 13 | To understand the fundemanteal concepts of production planning |
| 14 | To develop an understanding of the qualitative methods utilized in production planning |