Industrial Management, Improvement and Production

The aim of this module is to train multi-skilled agri-food engineers capable of tackling and solving problems linked to the design and development of a product or workshop, implementing a quality system from the design phase onwards, applying normative requirements with a view to certification, and mastering the concepts and tools of production management. In addition, this module provides the economic, social and human skills needed to move into managerial positions. Human resources training plays an important part in this module, particularly through project work, to gradually enable students to manage men and women, allocate tasks according to priorities, and control and optimize production and related projects.

No prerequisites

Part 1: People and business management (approx. 45-50h lecture/DD)

Objectives

Study the company as a coherent system in which all functions contribute jointly to results, and in which the production engineer plays an essential role at the interface between departments.

Contents

    - Financial and economic management of the company
- Balance sheet
- Income statement
- Financial analysis using ratios
- Economic analysis
- Defining a strategy
- Drawing up specifications, responding to a call for tenders
- Relations with the retail sector
- Human and regulatory context
- Management and respect due to employees; labor law, collective agreements, profit-sharing, retirement.
- Health and safety in the workplace
- The French Labor Code, roles and responsibilities, the CHSCT, the single document, occupational pathologies.
- Managing people: assessing skills, identifying personalities, revealing talents DEVELOP.
- Testimonials from junior and senior engineers, HR managers.

Evaluation methods

Assessment of skills - Written. Synthesis highlighting the interdependence of the various contributions, with criticisms and arguments.

Part 2: Product quality (approx. 45-50h lecture/DD)

Objectives

Understand the company's quality approach from regulatory, human and organizational viewpoints.
Discover the practical consequences of quality in production.

Contents

The quality management system: from theory to practice 

    - The quality manager: duties, responsibilities and role in steering the company
- Leading meetings and working groups
- Quality costs

Organizational quality 

    - Quality in design (specifications, reorganization of premises)
- Design of production premises: flow and air treatment in food industry processes.
- Industrial hygiene: cleaning in place
- HACCP and traceability: the broad outlines of the approach and the role of a quality manager in mass distribution. Operational visit to a logistics platform
- Statistical process control
- Crisis management

Evaluation methods

Assessment of skills - Written. Synthesis of acquired knowledge with comments and arguments based on examples referring to industrial situations. 

Part 3: Production management (approx. 55-65h lecture/DD)

Objectives

Model the company to gain a better understanding of how it works, provide a common language of representation, identify the organization's strengths and weaknesses, and create synergy between the players involved in a continuous improvement process.

Contents

1- Production management and industrial performance control

    - Inventory management: differentiated analysis, stock models, procurement policies, etc.
- Scheduling: formalization of the problem, resolution techniques, tools, etc.
- Flow analysis and "a priori" performance evaluation: Petri nets, simulation tools, etc.
- Methods for implementing performance indicators: case studies

2- Modeling production systems 

    - Functional analysis: actigrams
- GRAI model, SADT, simulations

3- Lean Manufacturing: in-depth analysis 

    - Deploy the right Lean tools for different critical situations.
- Develop practical skills reinforced by industrial case studies
- ADAM site visit

4- The logistics function and management control

    - Supplier relations and supply chain (testimonial)
- Distribution network design,
- ERP, management control
- Warehouse management,
- Simulation of a distribution chain and stock management,

Evaluation methods

Assessment of skills - Written. Synthesis of acquired knowledge with comments and arguments based on examples referring to industrial situations. 

Part 4: Industrial project (80-90h)

Objectives

The industrial project offers students the opportunity to confront the realities of a fictitious company in crisis. This encourages them to study the company as a coherent system in which all functions are interdependent and contribute jointly to the results. The work undertaken must provide a recovery plan that requires the contribution of everyone, whatever the differences of opinion in the analysis of causes and in the solutions to be found.

Contents

In teams of 3 or 4 students. The groups are supervised by two teachers (responsible for the specialization) and the accounting teacher. Each group, without consulting the others (to satisfy the one group = one solution rule), must carry out :
- a diagnosis of the company (SWOT)
- a concrete investigation of the company's market, situating it in relation to the competition
- and provide a realistic, precise, creative and costed redeployment plan, with a provisional timetable and budget.

Each group is asked to supply two reports: a summary report (maximum 40 pages) and a second report with appendices.

Evaluation methods

Skills assessment:
- Oral (Presentation: 20 min; Discussion: 30 min)
- Written (Report)

Part 5: Grand oral

Objectives

Be able to present in a structured way a problematic linked to the teachings of the specialization.

Contents

On the basis of the internship topic, the aim is to place the proposed subject in its socio-economic context and propose a plan of action to be defended orally.
Students present their subject orally to a panel of judges comprising at least two teachers. Based on data supplied by the manufacturer, they are asked to propose a coherent and realistic action plan. This is followed by a discussion to assess the relevance of the proposed plan and the solutions proposed, and to review all the topics covered in the specialization courses.

Evaluation methods

Oral (Presentation: 10 min; Discussion: 10 min)

Managers

    - Thomas Habersetzer
- Isaura Caceres 

Choice of specialization

Mimeographed lectures by the speakers with their bibliographies
David and H. Alla, Du Grafcet aux réseaux de Petri. Paris: Hermès, 1989.
Brunel, Politique d'achat et gestion des approvisionnements, Dunod, 2005.
Gérard Baglin, Olivier Bruel, Alain Garreau, Michel Greif, Management Industriel et Logistique : Conception et pilotage de la Supply Chain, Economica, 2005.
Robert-S Kaplan, David-P Norton, Le tableau de bord prospectif, Editions d'organisation, 2003.
Pierre Bedry, Les basiques du Lean Manufacturing - Dans les PMI et ateliers technologiques, Editions d'Organisation, 2009