Industrial Engineering

Course Description

Detailed Syllabus:

Work Study:
Historical background; Work study definition; Role of work study in improving productivity; Ergonomics and work study. Work study procedure: selection of jobs; Information collection and recording; Recording techniques -charts and diagrams; critical analysis; developing better method; installation and follow up of standard method.

Motion Study: 
Memomotion and micromotion study; therbligs; cyclegraph and chronocyclegraph; simochart; Principles of motion economy; Design of work place layout.

Work Measurement: 
Definition; Procedure; Performance rating; Concept of normal time; allowances. Work sampling technique of work measurement. Introduction to pre -determined motion time system. 

Quality & Reliability:  
Introduction and definitions of quality Evolution of Quality: Inspection, Quality Control, Customer-Orientation: Internal & External Customer Concept, Life cycle approach to quality costs- Prevention; Appraisal and Failure costs. Seven QC tools (Histogram, Check sheets, Ishikawa diagrams, Pareto, Scatter diagrams, Control charts). Process capability concepts.

Facilities Design: 
Site Selection: Factors influencing the selection, rural and urban locations of "") sites, optimum decision on choice of site and analysis. Plant Layout: Types of production, types of layouts, advantages and disadvantages of layout, factor affecting layout, systematic layout planning, Material handling: importance, principles of material handling

Operations Research: 
Introduction, general methodology of OR, application of OR, Formulation of linear programming, deterministic models, graphical solution, simplex algorithm, 

Reliability: 
Introduction, Definitions, reliability evaluation, maintainability, and availability concepts.

Capacity Planning: 
Introduction, measures of capacity, capacity strategies, A systematic approach for capacity decisions, Long range capacity planning and control, Medium range capacity planning and control, Short range capacity planning and control. 

Inventory Management: 
Introduction, Inventory related costs, EOO model, EPO model, Inventory models allowing shortages, Inventory models allowing price discounts, Inventory model under risk conditions, Inventory control systems: continuous review, periodic review, optional replenishment etc., Inventory classification systems: ABC, FMS, VED etc, MRP. 

CPM/PERT: 
Introduction, Project scheduling with CPM, Project scheduling with PERT. Loading and Scheduling. General scheduling problem, Significance of loading and scheduling, Factors affecting scheduling, Scheduling system, Flow shop scheduling, Job shop scheduling, Sequencing, Line balancing. 

Forecasting: 
Introduction, Demand patterns, Factors affecting demand, Subjective forecasting methods, Casual forecasting methods, Time series forecasting methods, Routine short term forecasting methods, Selection of forecasting model.

PPC: 
Introduction, System approach, Type of manufacturing systems, Factors affecting manufacturing systems. Product design and development. Introduction, marketing aspects, functional aspects, operational aspects, durability and dependability, aesthetic aspects, economic analysis, profit and competitiveness, the three S's, break even analysis, economics of a new design, production aspects.


Lecture Details: 

1. Work Study: Historical background. Definition. Role in improving productivity. Ergonomics and work-study. 
2. Work study Procedure: Selection of job for method study and defining problem. Information collection. 
3. Information recording techniques: charts and diagrams. 
4. Critical analysis of information recorded. 
5. Developing better method and installation as standard method. Follow up.
6. Memomotion and micromotion study; therbligs, simochart. 
7. Cyclegraph and chronocyclegraph; Principles of motion economy. Design of workplace layout. 
8.  Work measurement definition, applications and procedure. 
9.  Performance rating and concept of normal time; allowances; determination of standard time. 
10. Work sampling technique of work measurement. 
11. lntroduction of PMT systems. 
12. Introduction and definitions of quality.
13. Evolution of Quality, Inspection, Quality Control, its benefits. 
14. Customer-Orientation: Internal & External Customer Concept, Life cycle approach to quality costs- Prevention; Appraisal and Failure costs. 
15. Seven QC tools (Histogram, Check sheets, Ishikawa diagrams, Pareto, Scatter diagrams, Control charts). 
16. Control charts; x bar chart, c chart. 
17. P c.hart, u chart. 
18. Process capability concepts. 
19. Site Selection: Factors influencing the selection. 
20. Rural and urban Iqcations of sites, optimum decision on choice of site and analysis. 
21. Plant Layout: Types of production, types of layouts, advantages and disadvantages of layout.
22. Factor affecting layout, systematic layout planning. 
23. Material handling: importance, & principles of material handling.
24. Introduction, general methodology of OR, application of OR.
25. Formulation of linear programming, graphical solution.
26. Simplex algorithm. 
27. Introduction, Definitions, reliability evaluation.
28. Maintainability, and availability concepts. 
29. Introduction to capacity, measures of capacity and strategies for capacity.
30. A systematic approach for capacity management. 
31. Introduction to inventory management and simple inventory models. 
32. Inventory models with varying market conditions (such as, discounts, risk factors etc.) 
33. Inventory classification and inventory control systems.
34. MRP 
35. Project scheduling with CPM. 
36. Project. scheduling with PERT. 
37. Introduction, strategies and methods for aggregate planning. 
38. General scheduling problem and factors affecting scheduling. 
39. Flow shop and job shop scheduling.
40. Sequencing and line balancing. 
41. Introduction to forecasting, demand patterns, factors affecting demand.
42. Time series forecasting methods.
43. System approach to PPC.
44. Types of manufacturing systems, factors affecting manufacturing systems.
45. Introduction to product design and development process.


Course Details:
- Instructors: Dr. D.K. Dwivedi, Dr. Inderdeep Singh, Prof. Pradeep Kumar, Prof. P.K. Jain.
 - Web Course Link: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/Webcourse-contents/IIT-ROORKEE/INDUSTRIAL-ENGINERRING/index.htm