ELECTIVE THEORY COURSES

(Six to be opted-out of which two may be an open elective from other M.E/ M.Tech programmes)

15MN21 TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE

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BASIC PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS: Six basic principles, new demands of production, continuous productivity improvement,
TPM definition, development stages of TPM, principle of learning –improving machine performance the team approach, zero defects
and TPM. (6)

OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFECTIVENESS: Power of OEE, six major losses, OEE metrics, OEE calculation for a single machine,
plant OEE calculations, process average method, weighted process average method, total equipment effectiveness equipment
performance (TEEP), financial aspects of OEE – case studies. (7)

RESTORING EQUIPMENT TO ‘NEW’ CONDITION: Specific goals for equipment, operators, technicians, detecting minor machine
defects, setting comp. standards, typical examples, machine tags, and one point lessons –typical examples. (6)

AUTONOMOUS MAINTENANCE: Seven levels initial cleaning, preventive cleaning machines, cleaning and lubrication standard,
general inspection, autonomous inspection, process disciple, independent autonomous maintenance. (6)

MACHINE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PLAN: Elements of a complete preventive maintenance, PM checklist, PM schedules,
inspection specification, replacement parts numbers, PM procedure, part logs, quality checks, PM Master-plan. (6)

PREPARATORY STAGES OF TPM IMPLEMENTATION: Introduction of TPM to the organization, creation of organization
structure, Basic TPM policies and aids, master plan, Kick start. (7)

TPM IMPLEMENTATION STAGES: Small group activities, implementing AM, establishing planned maintenance, training and
education, developing equipment management program, perfecting TPM implementation – raising TPM levels, Case studies. (7)

Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Hansen R C, “Overall Equipment Effectiveness: A Powerful Production Maintenance Tool”, Industrial Press, USA, 2001.
2. Robinson C J and Ginder A P, “Implementing TPM: The North American Experience”, Productivity Press, USA, 1995.

15MN22/ 15MC22/15ML10 ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

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INTRODUCTION TO ERP SYSTEMS: ERP an overview – enterprise an overview – ERP as integrated management information
system – evolution of ERP – benefits of ERP – ERP vs. traditional information systems – advantages of ERP – MRP ii model and
organizational processes. (6)

BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING: Need and challenges – management concerns about BPR – BPR to build business –
model for ERP – basic constituents of ERP – selection criteria for ERP – packages – procurement process for ERP package –
features of various modules of ERP. (7)

ERP IMPLEMENTATION: ERP – implementation – lifecycle – implementation methodology – hidden costs in implementation –
organizing the implementation – vendors – consultants and users – project management and monitoring – issues in customizing
ERP systems for organizations – need for training. (6)

THE BUSINESS MODULES IN AN ERP PACKAGE: Finance – manufacturing – human resource – plant maintenance – materials
management – quality management – sales and distribution. (9)

OVERVIEW OF ERP PACKAGES: SAP-R/3 – SAP B1 – MFG/PRO – IFS/AVALON – ORACLE. Comparison between different
ERP packages. Survey of Indian ERP packages regarding their coverage, performance and cost – top management concerns and
ERP systems – extended ERP (ERP II)/advanced planning systems. (9)

ERP CASE STUDIES: HRM, finance, production, materials, sales and distribution, banking and service operations. (8)
Total L: 45
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REFERENCES:
1. Alexis Leon, “ERP Demystified”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, 2003.
2. Vinod Kumar Garg and Venkitakrishnan N K, “Enterprise Resource Planning-Concepts and Practice”, Prentice Hall of India
Private Limited, 2003.
3. David Lolson, “Managerial Issues of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2004.
4. Rahul V Altekar, “Enterprise Wide Resource Planning – Theory and Practice”, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2004.
5. http://www.technologyevaluation.com/landing/select.asp
6. http://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/

15MN23 SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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SAFETY SYSTEMS: Definitions, safety systems; safety information system: basic concepts, definition of accidents, analysis of
causes of accident. Hazard analysis, General hazard analysis: electrical, physical and chemical hazard, detailed hazard analysis.
Cost effectiveness in hazard eliminations, fault tree analysis and hazard studies. (6)

MANAGING FOR SAFETY: Safety inspection, procedure, periodicity, checklist, report forms. Planning for safety and productivity,
safety sampling, safety audit, safety survey, JSA, accident prevention, Work permit and lock out system, accident analysis, safety
education, communication, safety performance analysis. Personal protective equipment testing, usage. (7)

SAFETY IN MATERIAL HANDLING: Selection of material handling equipment, equipment used, ropes, chains, slings, hooks,
clamps, procedure for testing and checking as per standard. Design conservation, conveyor systems, belt, roller chain and elevator
and lifts, industrial hoists, mobile crane, forklift, operation maintenance and checking procedure. (5)

FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM: Automated fire fighting system, chemistry of fire, water sprinkler, fire hydrant, alarm and detection
system. Suppression system, CO2 system, foam system, DCP system, halon system, portable extinguisher. (6)

SAFETY IN PROCESS: Design for safety, safety in use of power press. Safety in foundry, forging, welding, hot working and cold
working, electroplating and boiler operation. (7)

SAFETY LEGISLATION: Provisions in factory act for safety, explosive act, workmen compensation act, compensation calculation.
Boiler act and pollution control act, electrical safety, electricity act and rules. (6)

ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA): Introduction, EIA capability and limitations, legal provisions on EIA, methods of
EIA – checklists – matrices – Networks – cost benefit analysis – analysis of alternatives – case studies, adverse impact on
environment – ISO14001:2004 EMS standards. (8)
Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Heinrich H W, “Industrial Accident Prevention”, National Safety Council, McGraw Hill Inc, Chicago, 1998.
2. John Ridley, “Safety at Work”, Butter Work Publisher, Oxford, 1997.
3. Larry W Canter “Environmental Impact Assessment”, McGraw Hill Inc, New Delhi 1996.
4. Ken whitelaw, ”ISO 14001:2004” Standards, Routledge, 2004.
5. National Safety Council “Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations”, Chicago, 1995.
6. National Safety Council “Personal Protective Equipment”, Bombay, 1998.
7. Derek James, “Fire Prevention Handbook”, Buttes Worths and Co., Oxford, 1991.
8. Shukla S K and Srivasava P R “Concepts in Environmental Impact Analysis” McGraw Hill Inc, New Delhi 1990.

15MN24/15ML30 FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

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INTRODUCTION: Definition of an FMS - principal objectives – basic component – characteristics of FMS - types of FMS –
equipments and its functions. FMC vs FMS. Types of flexibility and performance measures. Economic and technological justification
for FMS. (4)

DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN FMS: Planning phases - integration - system configuration - FMS layouts -

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simulation - FMS project development steps. Project management - equipment development - host system development – functions
of FMS host computer – FMS host and area controller function distribution - planning - hardware and software development.
Framework for developing maintenance policy for FMS. (6)

DISTRIBUTED NUMERICAL CONTROL AND PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS: DNC system - communication between DNC
computer and machine control unit - hierarchical processing of data in DNC system - features of DNC systems, PLC - control
system architecture - elements of programmable controllers: languages, control system flowchart, comparison of programming
methods (7)

AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING AND STORAGE: Functions - types - analysis of material handling equipments. Design of
conveyor and AGV systems, storage system performance - AS/RS - carousel storage system - WIP storage system - interfacing
handling storage with manufacturing. Tool management of FMS. (6)

MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF FMS: Types of analysis: queuing- single server, multiple servers, queue disciplines, markovian
queuing models. CQN - Simulation – GRAFSIM, SIMAN IV. PERT modeling techniques. Study of decision models in designing a
FMS – routing optimization with unlimited vs limited number of pallets – capacity optimization – equipment optimization with
unlimited vs limited number of pallets. Study of decision models in pre-release planning a FMS – batching (fixed vs flexible) –
machine pooling – simultaneous batching: Whitney and Gaul approach, bostos approach, mazzola approach, Kuhn approach.
(10)

PROCESS PLANNING: Approaches to process planning, study of a typical process planning, manufacturing planning and control,
overview of production control. (4)

RECONFIGURABLE MACHINES AND SYSTEMS: Challenges, enabling technologies for reconfiguration– system level design
issues in RMS – reconfigurable machines – challenges. (4)

FMS APPLICATIONS: Case studies: computer-integrated robotic flexible welding cell – FMS practices at Toyota (4)
Total L: 45

REFERENCES:
1. Parrish D J, “Flexible Manufacturing”, Butter Worth Heinemann Ltd, Oxford, 1993.
2. Groover M P, “Automation, Production Systems and Computer Integrated Manufacturing”, Prentice Hall India Pvt. Ltd, 2002.
3. Tien-Chien chang, Richard A Wysk, “An Introduction to Automated Process Planning Systems”, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood
cliffs, New Jersey, 1985.
4. Considine D M and Considine G D, “Standard Handbook of Industrial Automation”, Chapman and Hall, London, 1986.
5. Viswanadham N and Narahari Y, “Performance Modeling of Automated Manufacturing Systems”, Prentice Hall India Pvt. Ltd,
2005.

15MN25 INDUSTRIAL SCHEDULING

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INTRODUCTION: Scheduling as a function and theory, scheduling problem, sequencing - objective, constraints, difference between
sequencing and scheduling. (4)

SINGLE MACHINE MODELS: Characteristics, terminology, theorems, SPT and EDD sequences, minimizing in - process inventory,
mean flow time, weighted mean flow time, number of tardy jobs and mean tardiness, Hodgson's algorithm, Wilkerson -Irwin
algorithms, applications of dynamic programming and branch and bound techniques, minimizing total cost, non-simultaneous
arrivals, dependent jobs, sequence dependent set up time, use of assignment model, heuristic solutions. (6)

PARALLEL MACHINE MODELS: Minimizing make span, independent jobs- McNaughton's algorithm, heuristic procedures,
minimizing weighted mean flow time, jobs- Hu's algorithm, Muntz-Coffman algorithm. (5)

FLOW SHOP MODELS: Permutation schedule - Johnson's problem - branch and bound algorithms - dominance properties for
make span problems - heuristic approaches - flow shops without intermediate queues - other performance measures. (5)

JOB SHOP MODELS: Types of schedules - schedule generation - branch and bound approach -Heuristic procedures - integer
programming approach. (4)

PROJECT SCHEDULING: Logical constraints and net work constructions, temporal analysis, probabilistic network analysis,
time/cost trade-off, resource allocation. (4)

RESOURCE CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING: Extending job shop model - extending project model - integer
programming approach - heuristic methods. (4)

SIMULATION MODELS OF JOB SHOP: Elements of simulation models - reducing mean flow time - meeting due dates -
case studies. (4)

INTERVAL SCHEDULING, RESERVATIONS AND TIMETABLING: Reservation without slack- reservation with slack- Timetabling
with workforce, operator constraints- Case study. (3)

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PLANNING, SCHEDULING AND TIMETABELING IN TRANSPORTATION: Tanker- Aircraft scheduling- Train scheduling (3)

WORKFORCE SCHEDULING: Day-Off scheduling- Shift scheduling- Cyclic staffing problem- Operator scheduling in a call center
(3)
Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Baker K, “Introduction to Sequencing and Scheduling”, John Wiley and Sons, 1974.
2. French S, “Sequencing and Scheduling”, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 1982.
3. Convay R W, Maxwell W L and Miller L N, “Theory of Scheduling”, Addison-Wesley, Mass., 1967.
4. Michael L Pinedo, “Planning and Scheduling In Manufacturing and Services”, Springer Science + Business Media, 2005.

15MN26/15ML09/15MC39 LEAN SIX SIGMA IN MANUFACTURING AND SERVICING

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INTRODUCTION: Overview - Six sigma definition – Background – Six sigma compared to total quality management (quality) –
traditional vs. Manufacturing lean six sigma – Common terms, foundations of lean six sigma – four keys, five laws of Lean six sigma
– Lean six sigma tools – COPQ – Total quality cost – Understanding variation – Value stream mapping – Types of Lean six sigma:
DMAIC vs DFSS – Lean six sigma project selection. (6)

PREPARATION PHASE: Organizational success factors – leadership, six sigma as strategic initiative, internal communication
strategy and tactics, formal launch, organizational structure, six sigma training plan, project selection, assessing organizational
readiness, pitfalls, work as a process – vertical functions and horizontal processes. Project management – challenges, culture,
project management processes, selection of team members, team typing, team stages, characteristics of effective teams. (8)

DEFINE PHASE: Overview – Customer identification, feedback, requirements – Problem statement - Voice of customer –
importance, collect VOC data, critical to quality CTQ – Affinity process – Pareto diagrams – BRD – Project scope - Project charter –
Voice of the customer – High level process map – Project team – SIPOC – Process map – Practice live exercises. (6)

MEASURE PHASE: Overview – Types of measures – Introduction to statistical methods – Sampling plan – Population or sample –
Central limit theorem - Types of data - Data collection – Choosing statistical software – Measure tools – Cause and effect diagrams
– Line , bar, stacked bar graphs – Pie chart – Histograms - Control charts. Six sigma measurements – Quality cost - Cost of poor
quality – Quality loss function. Measurement system analysis –Process capability calculations – Short-term vs long-term capability –
Process performance vs specification - Practice live exercises. (6)

ANALYSE PHASE: Overview – Process analysis – Correlation coefficient – Regression - Hypothesis testing applications
(DOE/ANOVA, Chi square test) – Failure mode and effects analysis - Statistical tests and tables – Tools for analyzing relationships
among variables – Gap analysis – Root cause analysis – Waste analysis - Survival analysis - Practice live exercises. (3)

IMPROVE PHASE: Overview – Process redesign – Generating improvement alternatives – Design of experiments – Waste
elimination – Cycle time reduction – Theory of constraints - Pilot experiments – Cost/benefit analysis – Implementation plan – Risk
analysis and mitigation. (3)

CONTROL PHASE: Overview – Process scorecard – SPC: selection of chart and selection of analysis – TPM – Sustain
improvement - Final project report and documentation. Roadmap to implementation. (3)

DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA (DFSS): Overview – DFSS methodologies: DMADV vs DMADOV - overview of Quality Function
Deployment (QFD) - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) - overview of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) - Design
for XDFX – Robust design and process – Software tools for DMAIC and/or DFSS. (3)

LEAN SERVICING: Lean production – Overview – Lean history – Manufacturing vs service – Lean servicing case study. (4)

LEAN SIXSIGMA IMPLEMENTATION: Roadmap for implementation. Common Implementation issues and management
strategies. (3)

Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Joseph De Feo, William Barnard and Juran Institute, “Juran Institute’s Six Sigma Breakthrough and Beyond”, The McGraw-Hill
Companies, 2004.
2. Betsiharris Ehrlich, “Transactional Six Sigma and Lean Servicing”, St. Lucia Press, 2002.
3. Jay Arthur, “Lean Six Sigma – Demystified”, Tata McGraw Hill Companies Inc, 2007.
4. Michael L George, David T Rowlands and Bill Kastle, “What is Lean Six Sigma”, McGraw Hill, New York, 2004.

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5. Kai Yang and Basem El, Haik, “Design for Six Sigma”, McGraw Hill, New York, 2004.
6. Thomas Pyzdek, “Six Sigma Handbook: Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts and Managers at All Levels”, Tata
McGraw Hill Companies Inc, 2003.
7. Donald W Benbow and Kubiak T M, “Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook”, Pearson Education, 2007.

15MN27/15ML31 INTEGRATED PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

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INTRODUCTION: Global product: opportunities and challenges – change and complexity. Product life-cycle management -
concepts, benefits, value addition to customer. Emergence of PLM – key characteristics of PLM – components of PLM - functions of
PLM – Importance and benefits – Comparison between old and new paradigms – The ten step approach to PLM. PLM applications.
Key points for the CEO – company mission, vision, goals, tactics, and strategies – engineering specifications - product portfolios. (6)

PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE: Overview – phases of product life-cycle - type of product life-cycle models – Boston matrix – link between
Boston matrix and product life-cycle – S-curve, new product development. Link Extended ERP, CAD and EAI with product life-cycle.
Virtual useful: create (digital mockup) – build – support. Creation of projects and roles, users and project management, system
administration, access control and its use in life cycle. Product development process and functions. (6)

JOURNEY IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Product development versus design - types of design and redesign - electronic change
management - modern production development process - reverse engineering - Digital product design and development -
Computer-aided product development - CAD, CAE and CAD – NC – CNC. Redesign product development process. Examples of
product development process. Scoping product development. (5)

UNDERSTANDING CUSTOMER NEEDS: Gathering customer needs, organizing and prioritizing customer needs, establishing
product function, FAST method, establishing system functionality. (4)

GENERATING CONCEPTS: Conceptual design vs physical design - Information gathering – use of left brain vs right brain - types
of creativity and innovation tools: brain ball, C-sketch/6-3-5 method, morphological analysis, dimensional analysis and similitude,
physical model and experimentation- Quality function deployment - design of experiments, statistical analysis of experiments..
Concept selection, technical feasibility, ranking, measurement theory, DFMA - Design for robustness – disassembly process –
sustainability engineering. (6)

PHYSICAL PROTOTYPES: Types of prototypes, use of prototypes, rapid prototyping technique scale. (3)

COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING: Overview – sequential engineering vs concurrent engineering –
collaborative engineering and its importance. Product data management –data in product life-cycle –- data transfer. Globalization
impacts - Use of e-commerce variants in life-cycle and product life-cycle management. Multisystem information sharing.
Workgroup collaboration. Development of standard classification for components and suppliers. Model assembly process-link
product and operational information. Customization factors - creation of business objects, user interfaces, and search facile ties as
designed by the enterprise. Software-PDM/CPC/PLM and their comparison. (6)

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Overview - quality project approach and the problem solving process. Design creativity - innovations
in design alternatives – industrial design principles. (5)

PRODUCT TEAR DOWN AND EXPERIMENTATION: Overview – Testing – Destructive and Non-destructive - Tear down method,
post teardown report. Benchmarking and establishing – types of benchmarking. (4)

Total L: 45

REFERENCES:
1. John Stark, “Global Product: Strategy, Product Life-Cycle Management and The Billion Customer Questions (Decision
Engineering)”, Springer, 2010.
2. Michael Grieves, “Virtual perfect: Driving Innovative and Lean Products Through Product Life-Cycle Management”, 2011.
3. John W Gosnay and Christine M Mears, “Business Intelligence with Cold Fusion”, Prentice Hall India, New Delhi, 2000.
4. David S Linthicum, “B2B Application Integration”, Addison Wesley, Boston, 2001.
5. Alexis Leon, “Enterprise Resource Planning”, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2002.
6. David Ferry and Larry Whipple, “Building and Intelligent e-Business”, Prima Publishing, EEE Edition, California, 2000.
7. David Bedworth, Mark Hederson and Phillip Wolfe, “Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing” McGraw Hill
Inc., New York, 1991.
8. Wind-Chill R5.0- Reference manuals 2000.
9. Kevin Otto and Kristin Wood, “Product Design – Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development”,
Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2004.
10. Karl T Ulrich and Steven D Eppinger, “Product Design and Development”, McGraw Hill, New York, 2011.

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 15MN28 PRODUCT ANALYSIS AND COST OPTIMIZATION
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INTRODUCTION: New products, new product strategy - market definition, idea generation - introduction to the design process –
quality function deployment- forecasting sales potential - product engineering and markets, monopoly, competitive. (5)

MANUFACTURING PLANNING: Selection of optimum process, standardization. - process capability analysis - break even analysis
- application and area of use - problems - multi - product analysis. (6)

COSTING: Elements of cost – estimation – differences – types of costing – cost classification – depreciation – different methods.
(5)
TYPES OF COST: Labour cost – direct, indirect - labour variances - material cost - direct, indirect - material cost variances with
examples. over head cost. Elements in over heads, machine hour rate, apportioning methods - variance - examples - activity based
costing - introduction to target costing. (6)

COST CALCULATION: Cost calculation for machined components, welding, casting and forged components plastic moulded,
powder metallurgy parts - illustrations - calculation of sales cost- cost of refection - case studies - use of computers in cost
estimation. (7)

VALUE ANALYSIS: Steps in selection, analysis and implementation, VE job plan, FAST approach - Selection of cutting speed for
optimum cost, time and cost calculations for a batch. (5)

GROUP TECHNOLOGY: Concept, part family classification, different methods – codification systems, methods - adaptability,
implementation steps - illustration. (6)

COST ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES: Analytical, graphical and incremental methods for single and multi variable situations - learning
curves. (5)

Total L: 45

REFERENCES:
1. Glen L Urban and John R Hauser, “Design and Marketing of New Products”, Prentice Hall, New Jersey,1993.
2. Kannappan and others, “Mechanical Estimating and Costing”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2003.
3. Yasuhiro Monden, “Cost Management in the New Manufacturing Age”, Productivity Press, 1992.
4. “Manufacturing Engineers Handbook”, S M E, 1984.
5. Narang C B S and Kumar V, “Production and Costing”, Khanna Publishers, 2005.

15MN29 DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE AND ASSEMBLY

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PROCESS CAPABILITY AND TOLERANCES: Geometric tolerances: applications, geometric tolerancing for manufacture as per
Indian Standards and ASME Y 14.5 standard, surface finish, review of relationship between attainable tolerance grades and
different machining processes. Process capability, mean, process capability metrics, Cp, Cpk, cost aspects. Tolerances: Limits and
Fits, tolerance Chains and identification of functionally important dimensions, Statistical tolerance indication in mechanical drawings
population parameter zone in the μ, σ plane defined using Cp, Cpk. (4+1)

TOLERANCE STACK UP ANALYSIS: Dimensional chain analysis-equivalent tolerances method, equivalent standard tolerance
grade method, equivalent influence method. (3)

SELECTIVE ASSEMBLY: Interchangeable past manufacture and selective assembly, deciding the number of groups- Model-I:
Group tolerances of mating parts equal; Model-II: total and group tolerances of shaft equal. Control of axial play - introducing
secondary machining operations, laminated shims, examples. (5+2)

DATUM SYSTEMS AND FIXTURE DESIGN: Degrees of freedom, grouped datum systems - different types, two and three mutually
perpendicular grouped datum planes; Grouped datum system with spigot and recess, pin and hole; Grouped datum system with
spigot and recess pair and tongue - slot pair - computation of translational and rotational accuracy, geometric analysis and
applications. (4)

TRUE POSITION THEORY: Comparison between co-ordinate and convention method of feature location, tolerancing and true
position tolerancing, virtual size concept, floating and fixed fasteners, projected tolerance zone, zero true position tolerance,
compound assembly. (6+2)

FUNCTIONAL INSPECTION TECHNIEQES: Functional inspection techniques using CMM, optical comparators and paper layout
gauging, gauge repeatability and reproducibility (GR & R) calculations. (2)

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FORM DESIGN OF CASTINGS, WELDMENTS AND SHEET METAL COMPONENTS: Redesign of castings based on parting line
considerations, minimising core requirements, redesigning cast members using weldments, form design aspects of sheet metal
components. (6+2)

TOLERANCE CHARTING TECHNIQUE: Operation sequence for typical shaft type of components. Preparation of process drawings
for different operations, tolerance worksheets and centrality analysis, examples. (6+2)

REDESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE: Design features to facilitate machining: datum features - functional and manufacturing.
Component design - machining considerations, redesign for manufacture, examples. (4)

DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: Introduction-environmental objectives-global issues-regional and local issues-basic DFE
methods-design guidelines-example application. (1)

DFMA TOOLS: Rules and methodologies used to design components for manual, automatic and flexible assembly, traditional
design and manufacture Vs concurrent engineering, DFA index, poke-yoke, lean principles, six sigma concepts, DFMA as the tool
for concurrent engineering, three DFMA criteria for retaining components for redesign of a product; design for manual assembly;
design for automatic assembly; computer-aided design for assembly using software. (4+1)

Total L: 45 + T: 30 =75
REFERENCES:
1. Harry Peck, "Designing for Manufacture", Pitman Publications, 1983.
2. Matousek, "Engineering Design - A Systematic Approach", Blackie and Son Ltd., London, 1974.
3. Spotts M F, "Dimensioning and Tolerance for Quantity Production", Prentice Hall Inc., 1983.
4. Oliver R Wade, "Tolerance Control in Design and Manufacturing" Industrial Press Inc., New York, 1967.
5. Boothroyd G, Dewhurst P and Knight W, “Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly”, Marcell Dekker, 2009.
6. Poke - Yoke, "Improving Product Quality by Preventing Defects", Productivity Press, 1992.
7. Poli C, “Design for Manufacturing: A Structured Approach”, Butterworth Heinemann, 2001.
8. Graedel T and Allen by B, “Design for the Environment Angle Wood Cliff”, Prentice Hall, Reason Publications, 1996.

15MN30 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

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INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: Biological and artificial evolution, evolutionary computation and AI,
different historical branches of EC, e.g., GAs, EP, ES, GP, A simple evolutionary algorithm. (4)

REPRESENTATION TECHNIQUES: The importance of representation , coding methods – binary, gray, binary Vs gray, integer, real
valued coding, structured coding, representation of combinatorial problems – adaptive representations. (6)

SELECTION SCHEMES: Fitness proportional selection and fitness scaling, ranking, including linear, power, exponential and other
ranking methods , tournament selection , selection pressure and its impact on evolutionary search. (6)

SEARCH OPERATORS: Recombination/crossover for strings (e.g., binary strings) , one point, multi point, and uniform crossover
operators, mutation for strings, bit flipping –recombination / crossover and mutation rates , recombination for real valued
representations, discrete and intermediate recombination, mutation for real valued representations, Gaussian and Cauchy
mutations, self adaptive mutations, mixing different search operators, an anomaly of self adaptive mutations. (9)

THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS: Schema theorems, co evolution – co operative co evolution,

competitive co evolution, niching and speciation – fitness sharing, crowding and mating restriction – convergence of EAs. (5)

APPLICATIONS AND ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF EAs: Evolutionary algorithms for traveling salesman problem, scheduling
problem, inventory problem – hybrid evolutionary and local search algorithms, constraint handling – penalty methods, repair
methods – EAs for multi objective problems – weighted objectives, pareto optimality. (9)

GENETIC PROGRAMMING: Trees as individuals , major steps of genetic programming, e.g., functional and terminal sets,
initialisation, crossover, mutation, fitness evaluation, search operators on trees, automatically defined functions, issues in genetic
programming, bloat, scalability –examples. (6)
Total L: 45

REFERENCES:
1. Baeck T, Fogel D B and Michalewicz Z, “Handbook on Evolutionary Computation”, IOP Press, 1997.
2. Michalewicz Z, “Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs”, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1999.
3. Goldberg D E, “Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimisation and Machine Learning”, Addison Wesley, 2002.
4. Banzhaf W, Nordin P, Keller R E and Frank D Francone, “Genetic Programming: An Introduction”, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006.
5. Yao X , “Evolutionary Computation: Theory and Applications”, World Scientific Publ. Co., Singapore, 1999.

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 15MN31 VALUE ENGINEERING
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CONCEPTS: Introduction – status of VE in India and origin country – impact of VE application – types of values – types of function –
function identification on product – function matrix – function analysis – elements of costs – calculation of costs – cost allocation to
function – evaluation of worth in VE methodology. (8)

TECHNIQUES: General techniques: brain storming – Godson feasibility ranking – morphological analysis – ABC analysis –
probability approach – make or buy. Function – cost worth analysis – function analysis – system techniques – function analysis
matrix – customer oriented FAST diagram – fire alarm – long range plan – evaluation methods – matrix in evaluation – break even
analysis. (7)

TEAM APPROACH IN VE: Team structure – team building – selection of consultant – starting training – selection of remembers –
conduct of VE project study – task flow diagram – pre study phase – workshop phase, host study phase. (7)

COST MODELS: Matrix cost models – functional cost models – uses of project models – life cost – purpose and implication of LCC
– economic principles of LCC – types of LCC – steps in LCC – case study. (6)

VALUE ENGINEERING IN JOB PLAN: Orientation phase – information phase – functional analysis – creative phase – evaluation
phase – recommendation phase – implementation phase – audit phase. (7)

VE IN SERVICE: Basics, VE benefits in service, problems using VE, case studies in contract, café shop, restaurant, hospital. (5)

CASE STUDIES: Examples: water treatment plant – laser printer – electric motor – two wheeler – hotel service. (5)
Total L: 45

REFERENCES:
1. Richard J Park, “Value Engineering – A Plan for Inventions”, St.Lucie Press, London, 1999.
2. Mukhophadhyaya A K, “Value Engineering”, Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2003.
3. Larry W Zimmesman P E, “VE –A Practical Approach for Owners Designers and Contractors”, CBS Publishers, Delhi, 1992.
4. Arthus E Mudge, “Value Engineering”, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1971.

15MN32/15ML29 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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NATURE AND SCOPE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Meaning and definition of HRM, objectives and functions of
HRM, models of HRM, HRM in a changing environment, role of globalization in human resource management. (7)

HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING: Job analysis – job specification – recruitment – induction – selection – placement: role in HRM,
process, methods, use of rests in selection and placement. (6)

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT: Principles of learning, objectives, types and training methods, management development: its
meaning, scope and objectives. (5)

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL: Process, methods, factors that distort appraisal, methods to improve performance, role of
performance in the performance management process, performance appraisal Vs. Potential appraisal. (5)

WAGE AND SALARY ADMINISTRATION: Principles and techniques of wage fixation, job evaluation, incentive schemes. (5)

MORALE AND MOTIVATION OF EMPLOYEES: Morale-importance of moral-employee attitudes and behaviour and their
significance to employee productivity. Motivation methods of employees, empowerment – factors affecting empowerment – process
– benefits. (6)

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: Fatigue – safety – accident prevention accident
records – industrial relations. (5)

INTERNATIONAL HRM: Model, variables that outline difference between local and International HRM approaches to IHRM, linking
HRM to international expansion strategies. HR outsourcing – HRIS – management of turnover and retention. (6)

Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Gary Dessler, “Human Resource Management”, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2003.
2. Dezenzo A David and Robbins P Robbins, “Human Resource Management”, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, MA. 2007.

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3. Aswathappa K, “Human Resource and Personnel Management – Text and Cases”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2002.
4. Bernardin H John, “Human Resource Management – An Experiential Approach”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.
5. Rao V S P, “Managing People”, Excel Books, New Delhi, 2002.

15MN33 SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

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INTRODUCTION: Origins of system engineering, perspectives and system engineering viewpoint, systems domain, system
engineering approaches. Structure of complex systems – building blocks, hierarchy of complex systems, system environment,
interface and interactions. (8)

SYSTEM ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT: System Development Process - System engineering through system life cycle, system
life cycle, Managing system development and risks, WBS, SEMP, risk management, organization of system engineering. (9)

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT STAGE: Needs analysis – operation analysis, functional analysis, feasibility definition, needs
verification, system operational requirements. Concept exploration – operational requirement analysis, performance requirement
formulation. Concept definition – concept selection, concept validation, system development planning, system architecting, system
function specification. Decision analysis and support – decision making, modeling for decisions, simulation, trade off analysis.
(10)
ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT STAGE: Requirement analysis, functional analysis and design, prototype development and
testing, risk reduction. Engineering design – component design, design validation. Integration and evaluation – integrating,
evaluating and testing the total system, test planning and preparation, system integration. (9)

POST DEVELOPMENT STAGE: Production – engineering for production, transition from development to production, production
operation. Operations and support – installing, maintaining and upgrading the system, installation and test, operation factors in
system development. (9)

Total: L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Alexander kossiakoff, William N Sweet, Samuel J Seymour and Steven M Biemer, “Systems Engineering Principles and
Practice”, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, 2011.
2. John Leonard, “Systems Engineering Fundamentals: Supplementary Text”, Defense Acquisition University Press, Virginia,
2001.

13MN34 OBJECT COMPUTING AND DATA STRUCTURES

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PRINCIPLES OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING: Software Crisis - Software Evolution - Procedure Oriented Programming,
Object Oriented Programming paradigm - Basic concepts and benefits of OOP - Object Oriented Language - Application of OOP -
Structure of C++ - Applications of C++ - Operators in C++ - Manipulators (2+3)

FUNCTIONS IN C++: Call by Reference - Return by reference - Inline functions - Default, Const Arguments - Function Overloading -
Friend Functions - Classes and Objects - Member functions - Nesting of Member functions -Private member functions - Memory
allocation for Objects - Static data members - Static Member Functions - Arrays of Objects -Objects as Function Arguments - Friend
Functions - Pointers to Members (3+6)

CONSTRUCTORS: Parameterized Constructor-Copy constructor - Multiple Constructors in a Class – Destructors (2+3)

INHERITANCE: Defining Derived Classes - Single Inheritance - Making a Private Member Inheritable - Multiple Inheritance -
Hierarchical Inheritance – Hybrid Inheritance (3+6)

POLYMORPHISM: Compile and Run Time Polymorphism – Operator Overloading - Virtual function (2+6)

DATA STRUCTURES: Abstract data Types - Primitive data structures - Analysis of algorithms - Best, worst and average case time
complexities - Notation (3+0)

ARRAYS: Operations - Implementation of one, two, three and multi dimensioned arrays - Sparse and dense matrices -
Applications. (3+3)

STACKS: Primitive operations - Sequential implementation - Applications: Subroutine handling, Recursion (3+3)
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QUEUES: Primitive operations - Sequential implementation - Dequeues - Applications: Image component labeling, Machine shop
simulation (3+6)

LISTS: Primitive Operations - Singly linked lists, Doubly linked lists, Circular lists – Applications: Addition of Polynomials, Sparse
Matrix representation and Operations - Linked Stacks - Linked queues. (4+6)

SORTING: Insertion sort - Selection sort - Bubble sort - Radix sort - Algorithms and their time complexities (2+3)

Total L: 45 + T: 30 = 75
REFERENCES:
1. Stanley B Lippman, Josee Lajoie and Barbara E Moo, “The C++ Primer”, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2009.
2. Sahni Sartaj, "Data Structures, Algorithms and Applications in C++", Universities Press, Hyderabad, 2005.
3. Aaron M Tanenbaum, Moshe J Augenstein and Yedidyah Langsam, "Data structures using C and C++", Pearson Education,
New Delhi, 2009.
4. Harvey M Deitel and Paul J Deitel, “C++ How to Program”, Prentice Hall, New Delhi, 2008.
5. Herbert Schildt, “C++ - The Complete Reference", Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2012.
6. Nell Dale, “C++ Plus Data Structures”, Jones & Bartlett, Massachusetts, 2011.
7. Mark Allen Weiss, “Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C”, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2007.
8. Robert L Kruse, Bruce P Leung and Clovin L Tondo, “Data Structures and Program Design in C”, Pearson Education, New
Delhi, 2009.

15MN35 SERVICE AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

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INTRODUCTION: Introduction, types of services, types of service processes, the service concept – defined, service concept as a
strategic tool, focused and unfocused service operations. (6)

CUSTOMER AND SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS: Customers, customer segmentation, customer retention, managing customer and
business relationships. Customer expectation and satisfaction – defining expectations, finding expectation and assessing
satisfaction, managing perceptions. Managing supply relationships – types of supply relationships, managing service supply chains,
managing through intermediaries, supply partnerships, service level agreements. (8)

SERVICE DELIVERY: Service processes, understanding the nature of service processes, Engineering service processes,
Controlling service process, repositioning service process. Service people – understanding the pressure on service providers,
managing and motivating service providers, managing customers. (7)

SERVICE MANAGEMENT: Resource utilization – capacity management, operations planning and control, managing bottlenecks
and queues, managing the coping zone, improving resource utilization. Networks, performance and information – how it is
transforming service, managing physical and virtual networks, managing technology and information flows, integrating networks,
technology and information. (7)

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: Purpose of performance measurement, balance of measures, interlinking, targets and rewards,
benchmarking. Linking operations decisions to business performance – relationship, service performance network, key stages in
developing a network, world-class service. Driving operational improvement – approaches to operational improvement, service
recovery, service guarantees. (9)

MANAGING STRATEGIC CHANGE: Service strategy – service as competitive advantage, turning performance objectives into
operational priorities, strategy formulation and development, sustaining a strategy. Service culture – understanding organizational
culture, types of culture, national cultures, management of change and service delivery. Operational Complexity – operational
sequence of complexity. (8)
Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Robert Johnson and Graham Clark, “Service Operations Management: Improving Service Delivery”, Pearson Education Ltd.,
New Delhi,2005.
2. Bill Hobins and Sadie Shinkins, “Managing Service Operations”, Sage Publications India Ltd., New Delhi, 2006.
3. Nevan Wright J and Peter Race, “The Management of Service Operations”, Thomson Learning, 2005.
4. William J Glynn and James G Barnes, “Understanding Service management: Integrating marketing, Operational Behavior”,
1995.

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 15MN36 LEAN THINKING AND MANUFACTURING 3003

INTRODUCTION TO LEAN THINKING : Lean thinking vs Muda, Value, The Value Stream, Flow, Pull, Perfection. (9)

FROM THINKING TO ACTION: Lean leap, The acid test, Mighty Toyota and Tiny Showa, An Action Plan. (9)

LEAN ENTERPRISE: Introduction on Enterprise, A channel for the stream and a valley for the channel, dreaming about perfection.
(9)
LEAN STRATEGY : Politics in large organizations, creating a shared vision, strategy deployment in action, deploying targets and
tactics through catch ball. (9)

LEAN LEADERSHIP : Role of the leader, the water ring model, how complex system fail and succeed, the four rules standards,
connections, pathways and improvements, A remedy to big company disease. (9)

Total L: 45

REFERENCES:
1. James P Womack and Daniel T Jones “Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation”
2. Javier Santos, Richard A Wysk and Jose M Torres, “Improving production using lean thinking” Wiley Publications

15MN37 STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

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FINITE HORIZON PROBLEMS - I: Introduction, the DP algorithm - The basic problem, principle of optimality, state augmentation,
variants of DP problems, inventory control example, Deterministic finite-state problems – backward and forward shortest path
algorithm, alternative shortest path algorithms, Markov models, Deterministic continuous-time problems - calculus of variations,
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. (8)

FINITE HORIZON PROBLEMS - II: Stochastic DP problems - linear-quadratic problems, inventory control, Imperfect state
information problems - stopping and scheduling problems, other applications, reduction to the perfect state information case,
separation of estimation and control, DP for imperfect state information, finite-state systems, Suboptimal control - cost
approximation methods, certainty equivalent control, performance bounds, Rollout algorithms, discretization of continuous time and
space, other suboptimal approaches. (12)

INFINITE HORIZON PROBLEMS - BASIC: Introduction, Infinite horizon problems - stochastic shortest path problems (SSP),
Bellman’s equation, discounted problems as special case of SSP, computational methods for SSP, average cost per stage
problems. (5)

INFINITE HORIZON PROBLEMS – ADVANCED - I: Introduction, Control of continuous-time Markov chains – Semi-Markov
problems , discounted and average cost problems, monotonicity and contraction properties, contraction mappings in DP -
computational methods, Stochastic shortest path problem - value iteration (VI), policy iteration (PI), Q-Learning. (8)

INFINITE HORIZON PROBLEMS – ADVANCED - II: Approximate DP problems - selection basis functions, Analysis of
asynchronous VI and PI for generalized discounted DP, Proper and improper policies, Pathologies of SSP, Discounted problems -
approximate policy evaluation/policy improvement, direct and indirect approach, simulation-based implementation, LSTD and LSPE
methods, projected equation methods, aggregate problems. (12)

Total L: 45

REFERENCES:
1. Bertsekas and Dimitri P “Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control, Volume I”, Athena Scientific, 2005.
2. Bertsekas, Dimitri P. “Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control, Volume II: Approximate Dynamic Pogramming”, Athena
Scientific, 2005.
3. Sheldon M Ross, “Introduction to Stochastic Dynamic Programming”, Academic press, 1995.
4. Puterman M L, “Markov Decision Processes”, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
5. Stokey and Lucas, “Recursive Methods in Economics Dynamics”, Harvard university press, 1989.
6. Shapiro A, Dentcheva D and Ruszczynski A, “Lectures on Stochastic Programming: Modeling and Theory”, SIAM,
Philadelphia, 2009

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 15MN38 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
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ROLE OF MARKETING IN ORGANISATIONS: Core concepts of marketing, product concept, selling concept and marketing
concept, marketing process, analyzing market opportunities, designing marketing strategies, planning marketing programmes,
organizing, implementing and controlling the marketing effort, marketing planning, current marketing situation, opportunity and issue
analysis, action programmes, profit and loss statement. (8)

MEASURING AND FORECASTING MARKET DEMANDS: Concepts in demand measurement, estimating current demand,
estimating future demand, market segmentation, general approach to segmenting a market, patterns of market segmentation,
market segmentation procedures, base for segmenting customer markets and industrial markets, market targeting - evaluating the
market segments, selecting the market segments; Trend forecasting. (7)

LAUNCHING NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: New product development, effective organisational arrangements, idea
generation, idea screening, concept development and testing, product development, market testing, commercialisation, consumer
adoption process, product life cycle - introductory stage, growth stage, maturity stage and decline stage. (8)

PLANNING MARKETING PROGRAMMES: Managing product lines, brands and packaging, product mix decisions, product line
decisions, brand decisions, packaging and labeling decisions, managing service businesses and ancillary services - classification of
services, marketing strategies for service firms, managing product support services, pricing strategies and programs - setting the
price, adapting the price, initiating and responding to price changes. (7)

MANAGING MARKETING CHANNELS: Nature of marketing channels, channel design decision, channel management decisions,
channel dynamics, channel co-operation, conflict and competition, retailing, wholesaling and distribution systems, nature and
importance of retailing, types of retailers, wholesaling, physical distribution. (8)

COMMUNICATION AND PROMOTION-MIX STRATEGIES: The communication process, steps in developing effective
communication, measuring promotion results, managing the sales force, designing the sales force, principles of personal selling.
(7)
Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Philip Kotler, "Marketing Management Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Control", Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New
Delhi, 2004.
2. Ramanuj Majundar, "Marketing Research", Wiley Eastern Ltd, 1991.
3. Stanton and William. "Fundamentals of Marketing", McGraw Hill, Tokyo, 1995.
4. Boyd and Kapoor, "Readings in Marketing Management", McGraw Hill Book Co. Ltd., 1989.
5. Ekzel M J and Walkar B J, "Marketing", McGraw Hill, 1997.

15MN39 FINANCIAL AND COST ACCOUNTING 3003

INTRODUCTION –Introduction to Accounting- Uses of Accounting data- Brief History of Accounting- Distinguish between book
keeping and Accounting – Building blocks of Accounting: Ethics, A fundamental business concept – Generally Accepted Accounting
principles Basic Accounting Equation- transaction analysis – income statement – Balance sheet – statement of cash flows. (7)

THE RECORDING PROCESS: The Account : Debits and credits – Debit and Credit procedures – stockholders equity relationships
– expansion of basic equation – Steps in the Recording process : The journal – The ledger – The Trial balance : Limitation of a trial
balance – Locating Errors . (7)

INVENTORIES: Inventory Basics: Classifying Inventory- Determining inventory quantities – inventory accounting systems – Periodic
Inventory System: Recording transactions – Recording purchase of merchandise – recording sales of Merchandise – Valuing
inventory. (6)

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF COST ACCOUNTING: Cost accounting and management accounting – Cost concepts and
classifications. (5)

ELEMENTS OF COST: Materials Control – Materials costing – Labor Costs Accounting and Control – Factory overheads
distribution – Administrative and selling and distribution overheads – Activity Based Costing (ABC). (6)

COSTING METHODS AND ACCOUNTING OF COSTS:Single or Output Costing – Job, Contract and Batch costing – process
Costing – service costing – Cost control Accounts – integrated accounting system – reconciliation of cost and financial accounts. (7)

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COST ANALYSIS FOR DECISION MAKING AND CONTROL: Marginal (variable) Costing – Alternative choices decisions – Pricing
decisions – Standard Costing – Budgeting – Responsibility Accounting and Divisional performance measurement. (7)

Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. Weygandt , Kieso and Kimmel “Finance Accounting” Wiley – India Edition.
2. Jawahar Lal andSeema Srivastava, “Cost Accounting", McGraw Hill Book Company, New Delhi, 2013.

15MN40 INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT GAMES

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TORCH FACTORY / PLUG FACTORY: Lean manufacturing techniques, Importance of layout design, just in time production model,
knowledge on inventory management (6)

LEAN 5S: Key steps of the 5S methodology- benefits of using visual management in the workplace- efficiency gains associated with
an organized workplace-use of measurement in the improvement process- Implementing improvements through teamwork approach
(3)
BEER GAME: Understand the distribution side dynamics of a multi-echelon supply chain-customer demand through the distribution
side of a multi-stage supply chain with minimal expenditure on back orders and inventory- bullwhip effect (6)

DISTRIBUTION PLANNING: Strategy building of distribution – cost optimization in distribution channeling (3)

SIX SIGMA – DOE: Basis of exercises to understand the process, control variation and deliver improved
performance. Experiment design through catapult shoot. (3)

KANBAN: Kanban cards in manufacturing -Importance of kanban cards- effect of implementation-pull system – kanban and lead
time (3)

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT THROUGH BALL GAME: Importance of team work – Creativity in process methods – cycle time
optimization – effective communication. (3)

TEAM BUILDING AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT: Team co-ordination, effective participation of everyone in the team –
strategy development for profit maximization (4)

ONE PIECE VS. BATCH PRODUCTION: Understanding importance of one piece production and batch production – comparison of
one piece vs. Batch production. (4)

POKE YOKE: Fool proofing in manufacturing – importance and application in assembly – defect prevention through poke yoke
(4)
LINE BALANCING: Effect of unbalanced production line – need for line balancing – improved efficiency though line balancing –
productivity improvement (6)
Total L: 45
REFERENCES:
1. John Bicheno, “The Lean Games Book”, Picsie Books, 2009
2. Chris Chen and Hadley Roth, “The Big Book of Six Sigma Training Games: Proven Ways to Teach Basic DMAIC Principles and
Quality Improvement Tools”, McGraw – Hill , 2004.
3. David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky and Edith Simchi –Levi, “Designing and Managing the Supply Chain 3e with Student CD”,
McGraw-Hill / Irwin, 2007.

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 ONE CREDIT COURSES

For the detailed Syllabi of all the one credit courses offered by Mechanical Engineering
department which are listed in this programme scheme refer to the syllabi of M.E
Engineering Design programme.

For the detailed syllabi of the electives and one credit courses offered by other
departments refer to the syllabi of M.E- Automotive Engineering offered by Automobile
Engineering Department.

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