CHE5887 Lean bioproduct manufacturing
Faculty of Engineering
CHE5887 Lean bioproduct manufacturing is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Engineering, offered in 2020 in Semester 1 at Clayton. It needs CHE5888 and CHE5001.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 1
- Clayton
The 2027 handbook has no page for CHE5887. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before CHE5887
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After CHE5887
No unit lists CHE5887 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Co-requisite: This unit is available to you only if you are enrolled in E6007
Overview
In this unit, you will learn why lean is a key driver for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be introduced to the concepts and principles of lean manufacturing and its relationship to sustainability. Using a range of industry case studies, you will evaluate how to maximise customer value while minimising waste. You will learn how to analyse process flows in order to establish capacity and identify bottlenecks. Topics covered include lean concepts, resource minimisation, pull vs. push philosophy, just-in time production, value stream mapping, and the impact of these methods on business, environment and social values.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | Online |
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
describe the key concepts and principles of lean manufacturing and analyse the relationship between theory and practice
- 2
design a value stream map and explain how defects and waste can degrade performance
- 3
justify the selection and promotion of strategic quality management systems to support continuous improvement practice
- 4
analyse a production process and apply lean principles to improve process performance and outcomes
- 5
design strategies to assess and improve sustainable lean practices.
Workload and teaching
Online: 144 hours of study over the semester
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Mark Banaszak Holl
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Gil Garnier
Common questions
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- Organisational unit
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 2
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2020