? Unit I : Introduction to Industrial Engineering and Productivity
Introduction to Industrial Engineering, Historical background and scope, Contribution of Taylor, Gilbreth, Gantt,
Maynard, Ford, Deming and Ohno. Importance of Industrial engineering. Introduction to Work system design.
Productivity : Definition of productivity, Measures of Productivity, Total Productivity Model, Need for Productivity
Evaluation, Productivity measurement models, Productivity improvement approaches, Principles, Productivity
Improvement techniques – Technology based, Material based, Employee based, Product based techniques. (Numerical
on productivity measurement) (Refer chapter 1)
? Unit II : Work Study
Method Study : Introduction and objectives, Areas of application of work study in industry, Selection and Basic
procedure. Recording techniques, Operations Process Chart, Flow Process Chart (Man, Machine & Material) Multiple
Activity Chart, Two Handed process chart, Flow Diagram, String Diagram and Travel Chart, Cycle and chronocycle
graphs, SIMO chart, Therbligs, Micro motion and macro-motion study: Principles of motion economy, Normal work
areas and work place design.
Work Measurement : Techniques, time study, steps, work sampling, Determination of time standards. Observed time,
basic time, normal time, rating factors, allowances, standard time, and standard time determination. (Numerical)
Introduction to PMTS, MTM, and MOST. (Refer chapter 2)
End Sem Exam 70 Marks (Unit III, IV, V, VI)
? Unit III : Production Facility Design
Plant Location : Introduction, Factors affecting location decisions, Multi-facility location
Plant Layout : Principles of Plant layout and Types, factors affecting layout, methods, factors governing flow pattern,
travel chart for flow analysis, analytical tools of plant layout, layout of manufacturing shop floor, repair shop, services
sectors, and process plant. Layout planning, Quantitative methods of Plant layout and relationship diagrams. Dynamic
plant layout.
Material Handling : Objectives and benefits of Material handling, Relationship between layout and Material handling,
Equipment selection. (Refer chapter 3)
? Unit IV : Production Planning and Control
Types and methods of Production, and their Characteristics, functions and objectives of Production Planning and
Control, Steps: Process planning, Loading, Scheduling, Dispatching and Expediting with illustrative examples,
Capacity Planning, Aggregate production planning and Master production scheduling. Introduction to a line of
balance, assembly line balancing, and progress control.Forecasting Techniques : Causal and time series models, Moving average, Exponential smoothing, Trend and
Seasonality. (Numerical) (Refer chapter 4)
? Unit V : Inventory and Inventory Control
Materials : Profit Centre: Role of materials management techniques in material productivity improvement, cost
reduction and value improvement.
Purchase Management : Purchase management, incoming material control. Acceptance sampling and inspection.
Vendor rating system.
Inventory : Functions, Costs, Classifications, Deterministic inventory models and Quantity discount
Inventory Control : EOQ (Numericals), concepts, type of Inventory models-deterministic and probabilistic, Selective
inventory control, Fundamental of Material Requirement Planning (MRP-I), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII),
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Just-in-Time system (JIT) and Supply Chain Management (SCM).
(Refer chapter 5)
? Unit VI : Ergonomics, Value Engineering and Job Evaluation
Ergonomics : Introduction to ergonomics and human factors Engineering - physiological basis of human performance,
basic anatomy of human body and its functional systems; principles of ergonomics, design of display and controls in
relation to information processing by human being, Introduction to Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) and Rapid
Entire Body Assessment (REBA)
Value Engineering : VE concepts, Principles, Methodologies and standards, methods of functional analysis.
Job Evaluation and Wage Plan : Objective, Methods of job evaluation, job evaluation procedure, merit rating
(Performance appraisal), method of merit rating, wage and wage incentive plans, Performance appraisal, concept of
KRA (Key Result Areas), Introduction to industrial legislation. (Refer chapter 6)