| 1 | Asset Management | EBM024A05 |
Many industrial companies require complex ‘assets’ or ‘capital goods’ in their primary process. Examples can be found in a wide range of industries and include real estate, facilities and infrastructure, manufacturing and production plants and flexible manufacturing systems. The design, proper use, and maintenance of such assets are usually critical for the performance of the company. Complex production assets typically have a long life-span, whereby the total cost of ownership (including e.g. maintenance and renovation costs) may far exceed the initial investment. This course consists of plenary lectures and tutorials related to assignments, during which the stages of the asset-life cycle will be discussed. Investment and design decisions related to manufacturing automation will be discussed. In addition, the following topics will receive attention: quantitative methods in the front-end, the organisation of operations and maintenance, reliability engineering in maintenance and operations, and condition monitoring.
Students are asked to exercise with and reflect on these topics by conducting assignments, and do an intermediate exam. The assignments are all preceded by a tutorial/Q&A session. |
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| 2 | Data Analysis and Programming for OM | EBM208A05 |
| Quantitative models are powerful and important tools in Operations Management decision making. Examples are inventory models, scheduling heuristics, facility layout design, vehicle routing, and maintenance policies. Organizations collect more and more data through Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Manufacturing Execution Systems, and Internet of Things, giving more opportunities for employing these mathematical models. The descriptions of mathematical models usually presume clear-cut and clean input data. In practice, however, it is difficult to get such data as it is often messy and unclear how to extract data from systems. Consequently, to be useful in mathematical models, manufacturing and demand data need to be extracted, transformed, filtered, linked, analyzed, and visualized. The course Data Analysis and Programming for OM addresses this by combining data science, programming, and mathematical modeling. This involves developing basic mathematical models for OM problems, processing real data, and linking them through programming in Python. The basic skills prepare for and are used in subsequent courses in the TOM program. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. W.M.C. van Wezel | | Docent(en) | Dr. N.B. Szirbik | | Onderwijsvorm | -interactief hoorcollege , -computer practicum, -hoorcollege | | Toetsvorm | -individuele opdracht, -individueel mondeling tentamen | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Secretary Room: 5411-0634, Phone: +31(0)50 3637020, E-mail: secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 3 | Energy Transition & Innovation | EBM167A05 |
| The energy industry has changed, is changing, and must continue to change, in order to become more sustainable. The transition, however, presents faces a number of challenges, such as: (1) social challenges, for example, in terms of social resistance to the change; (2) business challenges, for example, as both emergent green technologies and polluter incumbents look for ways in which to become financially sustainable in the new environment; (3) policy challenges, for example, as governments look for ways in which to incentivise the transition; and (4) marketing challenges, for example, as once niche ideas about sustainability and environmental protection, are mainstreamed. In this course we will explore each of these challenges, we will reflect upon the business opportunities that each creates, and will consider the supporting role of competition and markets. In the process, students will gain knowledge about the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | Dr. K.J. McCarthy | | Docent(en) | Dr. S. Asad G.H.J. Berends, MSc.Dr. K.J. McCarthyProf. Dr. F. Noseleit | | Onderwijsvorm | -werkcollege, -gastcollege , -hoorcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -groepspresentatie, -schriftelijk tentamen (open en mc vragen) | | ECTS | 5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | General requirements for admittance to the MSc | | Opmerkingen | Secretary: room 5411 0434, tel. +31 (0)50 363 4111, e-mail i.b.a.neef@rug.nl |
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| 4 | Global Supply Chain Man & Sustainability | EBM201A05 |
| Globalization has changed the world and has certainly changed supply chain management. Collaboration and coordination across multiple tiers of manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers located in different countries constitute substantial challenges. Geographical distances, cultural discrepancies, institutional differences, laws and tax issues, among others, add to the complexity of global supply chain management. Additionally, the emergence of sustainability as a competitive priority poses an important additional challenge for the management of supply chains. On the one hand because substantial tensions might exist between sustainability and traditional supply chain targets like costs, delivery, quality, and flexibility. On the other hand, growing concerns about the environment might well lead to another period of drastic changes in many globalized supply chains (e.g. distributed manufacturing). This course aims to enable our students to understand, analyze, and develop strategies to cope with the challenges in designing and managing global supply chains. The course covers the following six main topics: 1. A historical/economical perspective on the emergence, the nature and future of global supply chains 2. Global production networks, including offshoring and reshoring 3. Management of global supply bases 4.Retaill distribution in emerging megacities 5. Current strategies and practices for extending sustainability in global supply chains. 6. Managing sustainability in multi-tier supply chains. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | Dr. C. Xiao | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. J.T. van der VaartDr. C. Xiao | | Onderwijsvorm | -hoorcollege , -werkcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -schriftelijk tentamen (open vragen) | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Secretary Office: 5411-0634, tel.: +31 503637020, e-mail: secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 5 | Healthcare Operations | EBM034A05 |
| Healthcare operations refer to a wide range of health related services provided by various parties, for example, general practitioners, hospitals, clinics, emergency medical services, nursing homes, and home care. Depending on their care needs patients traverse the network made up by respective parties. The performance of healthcare systems can be measured by different aspects like patient centeredness, patient safety, effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness, and equity. Healthcare systems have distinct characteristics because of high clinical, flow and professional variability. Students will learn how healthcare providers cope with these kinds of variability in improving performance by adjusting their staff and resources, and their planning and control. It will be shown how decisions made differ for elective patients, for whom service provision can be planned beforehand, acute patients, for whom no a-priori planning of services is possible, and chronic patients, who make a recurring appeal to health care systems. Relevant approaches, methods and techniques for operations management decision making will be discussed in this course. The main focus is on secondary care, in particular the phases of diagnostics tests and the treatment processes within hospitals. So far, research on healthcare operations has been dominated mainly by unit (departmental) approaches. We will explore how chain and network approaches may help in delivering integrated care. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. ir. D.J. van der Zee | | Docent(en) | dr. A.C. Noortprof. dr. J.T. van der Vaartdr. ir. D.J. van der Zee | | Onderwijsvorm | -hoorcollege , -werkcollege, -computer practicum, -gastcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -schriftelijk tentamen (open vragen) | | ECTS | 5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | A basic level of knowledge regarding healthcare management and excel skills is required. | | Opmerkingen | Secretary: room 5411-0634, phone +31(0)503637020, e-mail secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 6 | Innovation & Entrepreneurship | EBM621A05 |
The general objective of this course is to provide students with a full understanding of the process of successfully engaging in innovation/entrepreneurial activities.
The course consists of two parts that run parallel. The first is the theoretical part in which existing theories on innovation and entrepreneurship are discussed. In the second part, the students will apply these theories to concrete organizational settings by studying particular practical cases. Guest lectures provide the students with first hand insights on how processes of innovation and entrepreneurship take place in practice. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | P. Arque-Castells, PhD. | | Docent(en) | P. Arque-Castells, PhD. A. Nakamura, PhD. | | Onderwijsvorm | -gastcollege , -hoorcollege , -werkcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -groepspresentatie, -schriftelijk tentamen (open vragen) | | ECTS | 5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | Students should meet the general requirements for admittance to MSc BA. | | Opmerkingen | Secretary: room 5411-0434, phone +31(0)50 363 6543, e-mail: j.m.wiersema@rug.nl |
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| 7 | Inventory Management | EBM026A05 |
| The course provides the students with the necessary knowledge and skills to design, analyze, and manage inventory systems. The topics that are discussed include inventory systems, performance measures, demand forecasting, and inventory control policies. In particular, there is an emphasis on applying inventory control models to improve performance. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | Dr. O.A. Kilic | | Docent(en) | Dr. O.A. Kilic | | Onderwijsvorm | -werkcollege, -computer practicum, -hoorcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -individuele opdracht, -schriftelijk tentamen (open vragen) | | ECTS | 5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | The students are expected to be familiar with basic inventory management concepts that are covered in undergraduate courses in the field of operations and supply chain management, basic statistics and stochastics, and (mixed-integer) linear optimization. To follow the course, modeling skills (spreadsheet or programming) are essential. | | Opmerkingen | Secretary: room 5411-0634, phone +31(0)50 3637020, email secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 8 | Master's Thesis TOM-DD Newcastle | EBM028A30 |
With the Master thesis you give proof of your academic ability. This last phase of the study offers you the opportunity to produce an academic piece of work in the area of Operations Management and to explore this area in depth. In your thesis, you demonstrate and report in a systematic, objective and verifiable way, on the knowledge you have acquired and contributions you made in line with academic research.
Writing a clear research proposal is the first essential step in this course. Guidance is offered related to all components of a successful scientific proposal, such as defining the problem definition and research questions, stating the significance of the research, critically discuss the literature, selecting and motivating the appropriate research design to answer the research questions, and planning of the project. The next step is to actually undertake the research (collect, analyse, and interpret quantitative and/or qualitative data with appropriate techniques) and draw conclusions, make recommendations, generalise findings and identify limitations. You will report on all aspects mentioned by means of a master thesis and presentations. For this course, a set of research themes will be formulated. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. J. Veldman | | Docent(en) | dr. J.A.C. Bokhorst Individual supervisordr. J. Veldman | | Onderwijsvorm | -groepsbegeleiding , -individuele begeleiding | | Toetsvorm | -individuele opdracht | | ECTS | 30 | | Entreevoorwaarden | 20 EC of the Double Degree Master programme courses. | | Opmerkingen | Staff from the University of Groningen and staff from the Newcastle University are involved in the supervision of Dual Award dissertations. You will be allocated two supervisors, one from each institution. Your lead supervisor will usually be at the institution where you have selected to be based for the dissertation. In the first semester, supervisors from Groningen will formulate initial research themes (and projects) for which they are the lead supervisors. The supervisors from Newcastle will discuss possible research topics with you, for which they will be the lead supervisors. You will then first decide where you want to be based for the dissertation. The final allocation of students to projects/supervisors, is done early in semester IIa. Next, students start to write their research proposal in Groningen in IIa and will finish it in IIb. During part of the summer and in the first semester of the second year, students will perform the actual research, full-time. Secretary office: Dui-634 Phone: 050-3637020 E-mail: secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 9 | Operations Modelling and Simulation | EBM029A05 |
| Models are commonly used vehicles to describe, analyse and (re)design industrial and service operations. This course focuses on the development and use of conceptual models and coded models within simulation studies. Conceptual models capture the relevant model objectives, scope, and level of detail, starting from a defined problem and set of project objectives. Essentially, they offer an explicit, documented representation of a real-world, or proposed real-world system. Next, coded simulation models build on conceptual models and serve as a tool for quantitative analysis. A sound setup and analysis of experiments links the use of the coded model to decision support for operations (re)design. The first part of the course familiarises students with coding and experimentation by exploring and applying a simulation tool. The second part of the course relates simulation use to industrial practice, assuming a simulation study to be part of a project. Key issues addressed concern the definition of a conceptual model, data collection, input and output analysis, model coding, verification and validation, and decision support, i.e. reporting study findings. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. J.A.C. Bokhorst | | Docent(en) | dr. J.A.C. Bokhorstdr. J.E. Fokkemadr. ir. D.J. van der Zee S. Waschull, MSc. | | Onderwijsvorm | -computer practicum, -hoorcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -individuele opdracht | | ECTS | 5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | The content of Data Analysis and Programming for OM is assumed to be known for Operations Modelling and Simulation | | Opmerkingen | This course can also be taken in period IIb. For further information on this course, please contact j.a.c.bokhorst@rug.nl Your presence at the first tutorial is mandatory (see the course schedule for the date, time and location). Secretary: room 5411-0634, phone +31(0)50 3637020, e-mail: secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 10 | Research Methods for TOM | EBM031A05 |
| The course focuses on research methods used in the field of technology and operations management. Students have to do two modules, these modules provide in-depth knowledge and skills, first in the design science research (DSR) method, and second in the analytical quantitative research (AQR) method. Both modules are mandatory. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | Dr. X. Zhu | | Docent(en) | Dr. N.B. SzirbikDr. X. Zhu | | Onderwijsvorm | -hoorcollege , -werkcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -individuele opdracht | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | This course can also be taken in period IIb.
Secretary office: 5411-0634
Phone: +31(0)50 3637020
E-mail: secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 11 | Sales and Operations Planning | EBM222A05 |
| Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a much applied approach to align demand and supply in manufacturing companies. As a main tool for tactical planning, it is often assumed to be rather fixed in its processes, organisation and decision-making. Moreover, as being oriented at the tactical level of decisions, it relates to decisions on inventory, maintenance planning, capacity allocation, and usually, within S&OP, in case of risks and uncertainties, scenario planning will be conducted. Increasingly, it is realized that the often promoted uniform design of S&OP is not fitting real life situations and that a contextual approach is best. This course provides contemporary knowledge and coverage of S&OP literature, which offers insights into how S&OP can be employed in supply chains. Moreover, the course entails a strong practical orientation with various case studies discussed, mini-guest lectures and an assignment which simulates the S&OP process as it is conducted in companies. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | E. Rosca, PhD. | | Docent(en) | E. Rosca, PhD.prof. dr. J.T. van der Vaart | | Onderwijsvorm | -hoorcollege , -werkcollege, -groepsbegeleiding , -gastcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -groepspresentatie, -schriftelijk tentamen (open vragen) | | ECTS | 5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | No prerequisites | | Opmerkingen | Secretary Office: Dui-0634 Telephone: +31 (0)50 3637020 Email: secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 12 | Supply Chain Dynamics | EBM147A05 |
| Supply chains are dynamic in nature and they need to be changed and adapted to new developments, market situations and disruptions. For example, supply chains of today need to ensure that they enable the organizations to reach their sustainability goals. Typical strategic, tactical and operational decisions within a supply chain system are studied and analyzed by the use of data and quantitative methods. Mathematical modeling techniques and classical models are used to model such decision problems. Possible ways to solve such mathematical models are shown via the use of industrial solvers. The attention is put on the design and operation of supply chain systems and on the way to improve them. The student is provided with the knowledge and the tools to work with data by describing, analyzing, evaluating and making decisions based on it. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | Dr. E. Ursavas | | Docent(en) | Dr. I. BakirDr. E. Ursavas | | Onderwijsvorm | -werkcollege, -computer practicum, -hoorcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -schriftelijk tentamen (open vragen) | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Secretary office 5411-0634
Phone: +31 503637020
E-mail: secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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| 13 | Technology-enabled Innovation | EBM760D05 |
| This course combines academic knowledge of innovation processes with a team effort under pressure in which a concept for new products, services or systems is developed, in conjunction with a company. Teams are coached on their progress by the lecturers. The course follows the phases of an innovation process as provided by the course book, extended with selected subjects in service innovations and technological developments. Understanding will be tested in an individual exam. Teams will apply their knowledge and understanding in an actual product, service or system development activity, covering relevant business, technical and organizational aspects. Toll-gate reports and pitches are the deliverables of this team effort. |
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. J.A.C. Bokhorst | | Docent(en) | dr. J.A.C. BokhorstProf. Dr. C. Emmanouilidisprof. dr. G.B. Huitema | | Onderwijsvorm | -groepsbegeleiding , -hoorcollege | | Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -groepspresentatie, -schriftelijk tentamen (open vragen) | | ECTS | 5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | General knowledge of Innovation Management (Bachelor course Management of Product Innovation (EBB652B05) or similar) | | Opmerkingen | Secretary: room 5411-0634, phone +31(0)50 3637020, e-mail: secr.operations.feb@rug.nl |
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