TPPE91 · 6 credits · Basic level (G2F) · Industriell ekonomi
Production System Planning and Management
Active · next start VT 2027
94%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN2 · 20 Mar 2026 · 191 students
86%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN2 · 734 students
31%
Harder than 31% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 319 students.
Part of 1 programme
Exam
TEN2 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
86% passed · 734 students
- 94%191
- 78%128
- 90%143
- 84%140
- 81%132
Re-exams
58% passed · 170 students
- 55%11
- 64%14
- 61%18
- 54%24
- 77%13
- 79%19
- 27%15
- 68%22
- 33%12
- 50%22
- Pass the re-exam: 58% (170 students), compared with 86% (734 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 56% (904 students)
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 3
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Show small sittings (1)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%1
Hand-in or lab
PRA2 Project work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 738 students
- 100%187
- 100%137
- 100%147
- 100%135
- 100%132
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Show small sittings (5)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%1
- 100%4
- 100%1
- 100%1
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About the course
Aim
After taking this course, the student should:
- have knowledge of various basic concepts and definitions within production and be able to understand and explain different production systems, their layout design and be able to apply the most common methods involved, as well as be able to identify critical factors when designing production systems
- be able to understand and explain material and production control in the long and short term and its constituent methods, from demand models and forecast via sales and operations planning, master planning, material planning to detailed planning and follow-up,
- be able to describe and use methods to formulate and solve problems in industrial production planning, purchasing, inventory control, quality control and distribution and be able to analyze their solutions.
Content
The basics in Production economics, important concepts and categorising of companies. Developing and construction of production systems for effective production based on essential business management. Different production systems, Sale- and production planning, main planning and resource material planning, detail planning, inventory control, business processes, economical key factors. Principles for distribution and lean production. Purchase and distribution in a manufacturing industry. Purchase/manaufacturing decisions and the basic knowledge about outsourcing.
- Examiner
- Fredrik Persson
- Scheduled hours
- 48 h
- Main field of study
- Industriell ekonomi