Role and evolution of purchasing

Purchasing Process Model

Purchasing Categories and Purchasing Strategy

Purchasing Portfolio: definition and evolution of Kraljic matrix

Supplier Selection

Supplier Management and Development

Supplier Management and Development: risk an scenario analysis

Supplier management: cost approaches and techniques

Supplier management: advanced cost approaches and learning effect

Basic supplier contracting options

Introduction to production inventory models: EOQ and its variants

Advanced production inventory models: Joint Replenishment Problem, Newsvendor, Joint Economic Lot Sizing Problem


Course Syllabus

The "Mechatronics and Robotics" course (module I of the Industrial Automation and Mechatronics course) is aimed at furnishing concepts and skills for understanding and modelling mechatronic systems and industrial robots as well as competences gained with practical and lab activities on how to simulate and program them.

Topics:
- Introduction to Mechatronics and Robotics
- Overview of industrial (and service) robotics, history and markets
- Mechanics of Robots: architectures and main features
- Robotics: 3D kinematics and statics (direct and inverse kinematics, differential kinematics and statics, application to industrial manipulators)
- Industrial Robots: simulation (e.g. Matlab, ABB RobotStudio) and programming (e.g.  Adept V+)
- Collaborative Robots