The lecture conveys an overall understanding of operational production management with special consideration of aspects of sustainability as well as an application-oriented understanding of the fundamental issues and methods in industrial companies. Through exercises as well as a business game synchronous to the lecture, the taught contents are deepened through application, so that the participants can apply them directly in their later professional environment.

Learning Outcomes:

After successful completion of the course, the students are able …

• to discuss, alone and in a team, the terms, contexts and models by which manufacturing companies are described;
• to discuss typical problems of manufacturing companies, especially against the background of current and future challenges of ecological, social and economic sustainability;
• to apply the most important methods for efficient and sustainable management in industrial enterprises, in particular in the sense of the circular economy, in a problem-related manner;
• to select and justify decision-making alternatives by applying the methods learned;
• to critically question the methods learned and to independently acquire methods that go beyond this.

Workload:

regular attendance: 42 hours
self-study: 108 hours

Medien:
Skript zur Veranstaltung wird über ilias (https://ilias.studium.kit.edu/) bereitgestellt.

Media:
Lecture notes will be provided in ilias (https://ilias.studium.kit.edu/).

Vorlesungstermine montags, Übungstermine freitags.
Bekanntgabe der konkreten Übungstermine erfolgt in der ersten Vorlesung