• Theory of management and production paradigms: history and modern approaches.
• Process approach. Performance measurements.
• Principles and methods of lean manufacturing.
• Principles of „Lean Six Sigma“, DFSS.
• TOC.
• Kansei Engineering.
• Basis of complex systems theory and its applications in the production management (chaos theory, nonlinear dynamic systems control).
• Principles of behaviour of the living organisms and their application in the production management.
• Agile a leagile approaches.
• Change management (Schumpeter´s approach, innovation theory of Valenta, innovation theory of Gutenberg, strategy of innovation management by Vlček).
• Risk management, resilience and sustainability of production systems.
• Synergic effects in the production management
• Intelligent non-.hierarchical manufacturing networks.
• Selected methods of the multi-criteria decision-making.
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Doporučená literatura
ROSING, M., SCHEER, A. N., SCHEER, H. The Complete Business Process Handbook, Vol.1. Waltham: Elsevier, 2015.
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