INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Syllabus:

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (01 Hour)

Introduction, history, activities & techniques of Industrial Engineering, Organization of Industrial Engineering Department.

PRODUCTIVITY (03 Hours)

Production & productivity, factors influencing productivity – technological advancement & human factors, measurement of productivity (Productivity Index) , causes of low productivity and techniques of their elimination, improving productivity by reducing work content & ineffective time.

WORK STUDY (11 Hours)

Work content, excess work content & ineffective time , Method study – objectives, steps, selection of job, process charts, micro-motion & memo-motion studies, principles of motion economy – Therbligs, Workplace layout, Work Measurement – objectives, steps, techniques, performance rating, allowances of standard time, techniques of work measurement , Work Sampling– confidence levels, methods of work sampling, Computation of machines utilization & standard time , Predetermined Motion Time Systems (PMTS) , Work Factor System, Method Time measurement (MTM) - MTM basic motion elements, Production study, Physiological work measurement.

PRODUCT RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AN D DESIGN (02 Hours)

Product life cycle, selection of a profitable product, product design & development, process, product analysis Tools for product development viz. Standardization, Simplification, diversification, specialization etc. concurrent design, Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA), Reverse engineering, Manufacturability, Ergonomic considerations in Product design, Process design.

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT & INVENTORY CONTROL (06 Hours)

Materials management, inventory, costs selective inventory control – ABC analysis, safety stock, inventory models such as basic EOQ model, inventory with planned shortages, inventory with quantity discount, inventory with finite replenishment, ideal & real inventory management systems, inventory cont rol systems.

DEMAND (SALES) FORECASTING (06 Hours)

Quantitative forecasting techniques such as time series analysis, method of least squares, simple moving & weighted moving average regression & correlation; exponential smoothing methods, economic indicators method, qualitative forecasting techniques such as collective opinion method, Delphi technique etc, measures of forecast accuracy, selecting a forecasting method, costs and accuracy of forecasts .

VALUE ENGINEERING (04 Hours)

Value analysis & value engineering, reasons for unnecessary costs, Function Analysis System Technique (FAST), Techniques of value analysis & value engineering, value analysis procedure & questionnaire.

PRODUCT COST CONCEPTS & BREAK -EVEN ANYLSIS (02 Hours)

Costs of production, classification of costs, analysis of production costs, Break -even analysis – graphical as well as mathematical analysis, costs – volume – Profit (CVP) analysis, managerial uses of Break even chart, Applications of Break-even analysis.

ERGONOMICS (Human Factor Engineering) (03 Hours)

Objectives of human engineering, Ergonomics, productivity and working environment, man -machine systems, design of controls & information displays, working environment factors , Anthropometry, Human activities. Biomechanics, nature of movements, expenditure of energy for movements, Layout of working space , seating arrangements for providing maximum comfort.

ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES (07 Hours)

Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Just -in-time (JIT) manufacturing, Lean management, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), World Class manufacturing (WCM) etc.

(Total Lecture Hours: 45)

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• Syllabus_PDF: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Syllabus
• EOQ Model
• EOQ Model 2
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• IE Work study
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• Workstudy
• Break even analysis
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