LibGuides: Open Education Resources (OER): Managing Operations

Open Textbook Library

Beyond Lean: Simulation in Practice
Grand Valley State University Professor Charles Standridge discusses how, in a practical way, to overcome the limitations of the lean approach to transforming manufacturing systems as well as related in-plant, plant-to-plant, and plant-to customer logistics.

Fundamentals of Statistical Process Control
An interactive quiz created by Wisconsin's Technical Collages to help learners identify the different types of data and terms associated with Statistical Process Control (SPC).
Operations Management Simulation Exercise
Operations Management exercises from the free MIT OpenCourseWare "Introduction to Operations Management" course.

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Anyone wanting to take a class and not get any credit can take a "course" at Saylor.
Resources that they use can be viewed to incorporate into your class.
Students can use this as supplemental material.

BUS300: Operations Management
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of operations management as they apply to both production and service-based operations. Topics include: product design, supply chain management, quality, inventory, and planning.

Introduction to Operations Management
This course provides students with concepts, techniques and tools to design, analyze, and improve core operational capabilities, and apply them to a broad range of application domains and industries. It emphasizes the effect of uncertainty in decision-making, as well as the interplay between high-level financial objectives and operational capabilities. Topics covered include production control, risk pooling, quality management, process design, and revenue management. Also included are case studies, guest lectures, and simulation games which demonstrate central concepts.