2002 Swinburne TAFE Handbook - Swinburne University of ...

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A resume.
Content
Career planning.
Skills mapping.
Recognition of prior learning.
Job search and interview strategies.
Writing resumes.
VBJ372
Plant Biology
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: VBB336
Aims & Objectives
To enable to understand how plants have adapted and function in their natural
environment, and to examine ways in which they can be managed and conserved to
rnaintain an ecological balance.
VBJ373
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Productivity and Work Methods
Improvement
To provide the learner with the relevant knowledge and skills to identify the factors that
affect productivity, and apply methods to improve productivity.
Content
Productivity.
Operations Management.
Industry engineering and work study.
Method study.
VBJ374
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Resource Requirement Planning
To provide the learner with the necessary knowledge and skills to implement Resource
Requirement Planning as a strategy.
Content
Resource Requirement Planning.
Work standards.
Plant Manufacturing Capacity.
Materials Requirements Planning (MRP).
Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP).
VBJ375
Production Planning,
and Control
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil. Corequisites: VBJ374
Aims & Objectives
Scheduling
To provide the learner with the relevant knowledge and skills to explain the Production
Planning Process.
Content
Forecasting techniques.
The production plan.
Scheduling shop floor operations.
Computerised Scheduling.
VBJ376
60 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Supply Chain Management
Principles
Aims & Objectives
To provide the learner with the knowledge and skills to be able to understand the
concept of supply chains and analyse and plan for inventory management systems.
Content
Supply chain.
Economic Order Ouantity (EOO).
Order point systems.
Categorising and controlling inventory.
Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRPI).
Closed loop control.
VBJ376
51 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Supply Chain Principles
Explain the principles of supply chain management.
Explain the requirements of a successful supply chain.
Perform a range of Economic Order Ouantity (EOO) calculations.
Perform a range of ordering calculations.
Explain the Pareto Principle.
Demonstrate the principles of Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPll).
VBJ377
Management of Warehouse
Systems
60 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: VBJ374, TDTF397 A • Corequisites: VBJ376
Aims & Objectives
To provide the learner with the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to analyse,
organise and plan the managernent of warehouse operations and systems.
Content
Work practices and procedures.
Strategies to integrate warehouse functions.
Problems that can occur in warehouse operations.
Solutions.
Current developments.
Purpose and incentives.
Features of Management Information Systems.
Use of Management Information Systems in warehouse operations.
Goals of logistic networking.
Features of logistic networking.
Operations with potential for automation.
Options for application of automation.
Issues to be considered on implementation of automation.
Picking system.
Currenttrends.
Equipment and technology.
Inputs about improvements.
Constraints.
Strategies for eval uating systems.
VBJ382
40 nominal Hours. Prerequisite: VBJ373
Aims & Objectives
Predetermined Motion Time
Standard Systems
To provide the learner with the knowledge necessary to apply Predetenmined Motion
Time Standard (PMTS) systems to establish standard times for operations.
Swinburne University of Technology I TAFE Handbook 2002