Welcome to ME101

High Mix/Low Volume Manufacturing

Fall 2009
TuTh
12:30-2:00 pm
1165 Etcheverry

Instructor:
Professor Sara McMains
5145 Etcheverry Hall, 642-9359
Office Hours: M 3-4 pm, Th 2-3 pm, or by appointment

GSI:
Wei Li

email 642-8539
Discussion Sections: F 10-11 am (179 Stanley), F 4-5 pm (1165 Etch)
Office Hours: M 10-1130 am, 2114 Etcheverry

Syllabus
Course Announcements
Lecture Notes
Homework Assignments
Discussion Sections
Sample Exams
Other Relevant Links


Course Announcements

2009/12/03 Midterm solution
2009/12/03 Project Peer Evaluation Form
2009/11/19Format of the final project report.
2009/10/20 The result of beer game (xls, xlsx) is posted.
2009/10/16

If you missed the movies, go to the Media Center in Moffit Library basement and watch there. "On the line, 1924 (People's century)" call number Media Center VIDEO/C 5546. "Clockwork" call number Media Center VIDEO/C 147

2009/10/15 Project ideas are posted.
2009/09/09 Wei's office hour is changed to Monday 10-11:30 am.
2009/09/08 Clicker number list so far. Please check if your number is in the list.
2009/09/02 The schedule and rooms of discussion sections are finalized. We will have two sections, F 10-11 am in 179 Stanley and F 4-5 pm in 1165 Etcheverry.
2009/08/27 Welcome to Fall 2009 ME101! The syllabus is uploaded.

Professor McMains' Lecture Notes

2009/08/27 Introduction to Manufacturing, Cost, and Efficiency (pdf)
2009/09/01 Payback Period, Overhead Expenses, COGS, Working Capital (pdf)
2009/09/03 Exchange Rate, Turns, Throughput, Little's Law (pdf)
2009/09/08 EOQ, Production System Layouts (pdf)
2009/09/10 Engineering Economics (I), Learning Rates (pdf)
2009/09/15 Engineering Economics (II), Scrap, EOQ Sensitivity (pdf)
2009/09/17 WIP, Cycle Time, Production Time (pdf)
2009/09/22 EMQ (pdf)
2009/09/24 Batch Size for Fixed Setup Cost (pdf)
2009/09/29 Assembly Line Balancing (pdf)
2009/10/01 Forecasting, Simple Exponential Smoothing (pdf)
2009/10/06 Winter's Seasonal Forecasting (pdf)
2009/10/08 Movie Festival
2009/10/13 Supply Chain Management (I), Bull Whip Effect (pdf)
2009/10/15

Beer Game (xls, xlsx)

2009/10/20 Supply Chain Management (II) (pdf)
2009/10/22 Midterm
2009/10/27 Materials Requirements Planning, Lot-for-Lot (pdf)
2009/10/29 Periodic Order Quantity, Rough Cut Capacity Planning (pdf)
2009/11/03 Pull Systems, Kanban (pdf)
2009/11/05 Kanban Parameters, Two-Card Kanban (pdf)
2009/11/10 CONWIP (pdf)
2009/11/12 Statistical Process Control (pdf)
2009/11/17 Control Charts (pdf)
2009/11/19 Cell Formation, Control Charts (pdf)
2009/11/24 Testing and Scrap, Quality, Pioneers (pdf)

Homework Assignments

(Turn in to 3rd floor south ME101 HW box in Etcheverry.)
2009/11/17 Homework 11
2009/11/10 Homework 10
2009/11/03 Homework 9
2009/10/27 Homework 8 (data for forecasting)
2009/10/20 Homework 7
2009/10/06 Homework 6
2009/09/29 Homework 5
2009/09/22 Homework 4
2009/09/15 Homework 3 (Engineering economics problems for download)
2009/09/08 Homework 2
2009/09/03 Homework 1

Discussion Sections

Usually I write on the chalkboards during the discussion sections. If you miss a section, you can check the notes from other students.

Exams from Previous Years

Midterm Fall 2007 (problems, solutions)
Midterm Fall 2008 (problems, solutions)

Other Relevant Links

Excel spreadsheet for forecasting (xls, xlsx)
Engineering economics handout.
An Excel spreadsheet that you can play with EOQ.
A good explanation about COGS (from Exhibit 2-5 to Exhibit 2-10)
U.S. Dollar to Japanese Yen Exchange Rate from Yahoo! Finance
Calculator models that are permitted in the exams.

 

ME101, Fall 2009
Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley