This course deals with the concept of operations management and its historical development, and the approaches to managing production operations. It also includes studying operations from the operational and strategic perspective, planning and control (quantity and quality), in operations management, in addition to forecasting methods and estimating the expected production volume, methods of controlling product quality, material handling and automation, internal factory arrangement, improving productivity, studying work methods, production development research, and quantitative analysis tools. It also includes studying applied cases in quantitative and qualitative analysis and studying the impact of technological development on production operations.