Industrial and Systems Engineering (PCMET601) Syllabus

Introduction: scope and functions of Industrial Engineering, types of production (batch, flow and unit), roles of line supervisors and production managers. Product Development and Design: objectives, quality and cost considerations, human factors in design, detailed design and prototyping, functionality and manufacturability, standardization/simplification/variety reduction, concurrent engineering.

Plant layout and Material Handling: types of plant layout, principles of material handling, material handling equipment types/selection/application. Production Planning and Control: aggregate production planning, materials requirement planning. Inventory Management: EOQ models, discount models, P system, Q system, reorder level, selective inventory control techniques, JIT, supply chain and management. Breakdown, preventive and predictive maintenance.

Lean Manufacturing: basic elements, tools, concept of wastes, stages of 5S and waste elimination, need for LM. Agile manufacturing: definition, business need, conceptual framework, characteristics and generic features, approaches to enhance agility, managing people in an agile organization. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): concept of enterprise, ERP overview, integrated information system, ERP implementation (benefits, challenges, success and failure factors), Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

Quality Management: quality planning, quality control, quality assurance, TQM, ISO, Six Sigma and quality circle (brief description). Statistical Quality Control: process capability, causes of variation in quality, control charts, acceptance sampling. Reliability Engineering: causes of failures, bathtub curve, system reliability, life testing.