Unit 1 Location Selection and Plant Layout

7 lecture hours

• Nature of Location Decision
• Importance of Plant Location
• Dynamic Nature of Plant Location
• Choice of site for selection
• Comparison of location
• Principles of Plant layout and Types
• factors affecting layout
• factors governing flow pattern
• travel chart
• analytical tools of plant layout
• layout of manufacturing shop floor
• repair shop
• services sectors and process plant
• Quantitative methods of Plant layout: CRAFT and CORELAP
• Relationship diagrams

Unit 2 Productivity and Work Study

10 lecture hours

• Definition of productivity
• application and advantages of productivity improvement tools
• reasons for increase and decreases in productivity
• Areas of application of work study in industry
• Reaction of management and labour to work study
• Method Study: Objectives and procedure for methods analysis
• Recording techniques
• Operations Process Chart
• Flow Process Chart
• Multiple Activity Chart
• Travel Chart, and Two-Handed process chart
• String Diagram
• Micro motion and macro-motion study: Principles of motion economy
• Normal work areas and work place design
• Work Measurement: Objectives
• Work measurement techniques – time study
• work sampling
• pre-determined motion time standards (PMTS) Determination of time standards
• Observed time
• basic time
• normal time
• rating factors
• allowances, and standard time
• Introduction to ergonomics

Unit 3 Industrial Legislation

10 lecture hours

• Need for Industrial legislation
• Factories act 1948
• Industrial dispute act 1947
• The Indian trade unions act 1926
• Industrial employment act 1946
• Payment of wage act 1936
• Workmen compensation act 1923
• Payment of bonus act 1965
• Employees provident fund scheme 1952

Unit 4 Inspection and Quality Control

• Inspection – functions
• objectives and benefits
• quality control principles
• Concepts of quality circles
• Total quality management
• Quality assurance
• Quality audit
• Basic Concept ISO 9000
• ISO 14000 and QS 9000
• Six sigma: Concept
• Advantage and limitations
• Statistical Quality Control: SQC Concept
• variable and attributes
• normal distribution curves and its property charts for variable and attributes and their applications and interpretation (analysis) process capability
• Acceptance sampling
• sampling plans
• OC curves and AOQ curves. 10 Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Mechanical
• Production and Manufacturing Subject Code: BE05000321 Subject Name: Basics of Industrial Engineering

Unit 5 Principles of Lean and Waste Management

8 lecture hours

• Principles of Lean Manufacturing (LM) – Basic elements of LM– Introduction to LM Tools- Concept of wastes in LM and their narration - stages of 5S and waste elimination – Conventional Manufacturing versus Lean Manufacturing - Need for LM
• Agile manufacturing - Definition
• business need
• conceptual frame work
• characteristics, and generic features - Approaches to enhance ability in manufacturing - Managing people in agile organization
• Waste Management: Introduction and meaning of waste
• Reasons for generation and accumulation of obsolete
• Surplus and scrap Items
• Identification and control of waste
• disposal of scrap