Biotechnical Production Systems

Aim

The overall goal of the course is for students to gain knowledge and understanding of modern industrial production, with a special focus on biotechnical production systems. By combining knowledge from this course with other courses students should gain the ability to design and operate cost-effective and productive biotechnical production systems. Knowledge objectives for the course are:

• Knowledge of and understanding for modern industrial production, with a special focus on biotechnical production systems.
• Knowledge about the design and operation of production systems for a biotechnical product, where the biotechnical-related process steps are an integrated part of the total production system.
• Be able to analyze a production system with the help of the Rapid Plant Assessment (RPA) method
• Be able to to judge the prerequisites for an industrial biotechnical production system, and to independently draw conclusions regarding these prerequisites.
• Independently collect and evaluate information that is relevant for the design and operation of an industrial biotechnical production system. Given this, be able to prioritize, verify and critically analyze the information
• Become familiar with generic theories regarding production design and operations of a production system in its environment, and apply them to real companies within the biotechnology area
• Integrate and synthesize information collected with generic theories relevant for the design and operation of an industrial biotechnical production system

Content

The course focused around the concepts and issues that are important for most types of modern industrial production but with a special application of biotechnological production systems. Key areas addressed in the course is, for example, operations management, operations strategy, operations networks, layout and flow, job design and work organization, capacity and inventory planning and control, supply chain planning and control, just-in-time planning and control , project planning and control, quality planning and control, total quality management (TQM), and production economics.