The primary objective of the subject Basics of Operations Management is to provide students with a basic and sufficient level of knowledge related to the specific methods and techniques of Operations within organizations. In this field, the word Organization is applicable to private enterprises, whether industrial, commercial or services, public enterprises and administrations, public institutions and bodies, as well as quarters, headquarters, organs, fleets and sections of The Spanish Navy. All these organizations have in common that they must be managed by people with adequate training to perform an effective and efficient direction of operations, both from a strategic and operational perspective.
The future graduates will practice their profession in the different organisms and units grouped within the Navy, which can be considered the parent organization of all the organizations that integrate it. Therefore, it is important that all students know the management tools needed to run an organization of any kind. The study of this subject will allow students to consolidate and expand some of the knowledge previously acquired in the first year subject Introduction to Business Management. The necessary skills will be developed to manage the organizations through the study and practice of applied knowledge of Operations management.
Basics of Operations Management has an important relationship with the subject Logistics and Management of Resources in the Navy, which is taught within the specific military training of the two fundamental specialties of General Corps and Marine Infantry.
The contents of the subject Basics of Operations Management of the Degree in Mechanical Engineering have been divided into six parts: General Introduction, Introduction to Project Management, Forecasting Demand, Basic Decisions in Production Management, Introduction to work study and Introduction to the Quality, Safety and Environmental managing. These six parts will be developed in eleven topics as specified in the subject planning.
