2. Duties and responsibilities
 Planning the geographical location of factory.
 Purchasing production equipments
 Layout of equipments within the factory
 Designing production process and equipments
 Product design
 Designing production work and establishing work
standards
 Capacity planning
 Production planning and scheduling

3.  Production control
 Inventory management
 Supply chain management
 Quality control
 Production equipment maintenance and repair
 Measurement and monitoring of productivity
 Industrial relations
 Health and safety
 Staff selection and liaisoning
 Budgeting

4. Emerging role of production
managers
 Take part in strategic decision making of company.
 Take part in the implementation and use of enterprise
resource planning in the company.
 Automate processes as per the requirements of the
company
 Enhance the research and the development effort in
developing self relevant new technologies.
 Reduce lag in implementation of projects.
 Protect environment by implementing environment
protection norms.

5.  Act as a member of the concurrent engineering teams
in new product design and old product development.
 Develop long term strategic relationship with supplies
by acting as supply chain managers.
 Give more attention to technology management, in
view of joint ventures of multinational companies with
domestic companies.
 Be an internal quality auditor in quality certification
programming such as ISO 9000 series and ISO 14000.

6. Recent trends in production and
operations management
 Global market place
 Production/operations strategy
 Total quality management
 Flexibility
 Time reduction
 Technology
 Worker involvement
 Re-engineering
 Environmental issues
 Corporate downsizing
 Supply chain management
 Lean production