Illustration showing a portion of the "Newsvendor Model," a classic trade-off situation explained in Lecture 11. (Image by Prof. Thomas Roemer and MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Prof. Donald Rosenfield
Prof. Thomas Roemer
15.761
Summer 2002
Graduate
This course will introduce concepts and techniques for design, planning and control of manufacturing and service operations. The course provides basic definitions of operations management terms, tools and techniques for analyzing operations, and strategic context for making operational decisions. We present the material in five modules: