Understand the principles of production and supply chain management and apply them to current systems of interest.

Understand relationship and significance of strategy, tactics, and controls

Successfully manage tradeoffs between inventory, capacity, response time, and variability.

Define system producibility and manufacturability, including its purpose, scope, and impact throughout a system’s lifecycle.

Analyze and determine appropriate inventory and control policies for production facilities using mathematical models.

Conduct a formal analysis of the dynamics of production processes, based on queueing theoretic concepts and models. 

Describe the challenges and dynamics of supply chain management including ordering and inventory.

Describe the foundational concepts and methods of application of ergonomics into an efficient production system.

Define how digital engineering and digital manufacturing are employed in production systems to include the development of digital twins and the application of additive manufacturing techniques.

Describe the process of quality control and techniques for accomplishing quality control with a focus on statistical process control and interpretation.

Describe the effect of automation on production and when and to what degree it should be applied to production.

Explain the current state of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base and its ability to support future DoD production requirements to include its ability to surge in times of conflict.