Description

Theory/Practice
2

Laboratory
2

Instructors

Maria Antónia Gonçalves

Contents

I. Industrial Productivity
- Concept / Productivity measures
- Productivity vs. Efficiency
- Factors influencing productivity
 

II. Work study
- Concepts / Work design
- Activities that make up the work
- Understanding ergonomics
 

III. Study Methods
- Method definition
- Implementation phases of a study of methods
- Techniques of study methods
 

IV. Study of time
- Objective of the study of time
- Time observed
- Factor activity
- Normalized time
- Methodologies for assessing the activity factor
- Additions, corrections or coefficients
- Standard Time
- Reference data
- Standards and pre-determined time
- Time measurement by sampling
 

V. Balancing assembly lines
- Brief approach to the implementation of basic configurations
- Assembly lines / Possible configurations of assembly lines
- Balancing an assembly line
VI. Wage incentive plans

Learning Outcomes

[1] Understand the main drivers of productivity in business and how to power it.
[2] Be able to improve productivity through the technics of work study (methods and time measurement), improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes.
[3] Be able to project a job, in terms of human and material resources.
[4] Be able to conduct a methods study, using the analytical techniques studied
[5] Conduct a time study, making the use of timers
[6] Understand and be able to apply other methods of time measurement;
[7] Having acquired the knowledge to proceed to an assembly line balancing, through the study methodology
[8] Have the notion of how to assign financial incentives to its employees on the basis of the clearing systems covered