Unit 1 INTRODUCTION

• Concept of Plant Facility
• It’s Scope
• Importance and objectives 04 06

Unit 2 PLANT FACILITY LOCATION

10 lecture hours

• Nature of Location Decision
• Need for facility location planning
• General procedures and Factors influencing location decisions
• Facility Location Models
• economics and cost analysis
• Rural and urban location pattern in India

Unit 3 LAYOUT DESIGNS

12 lecture hours

• Industrial plant design considerations
• types of production types of layout
• factors affecting layout tools
• Techniques & procedure used in workstation and plant layout
• quantitative techniques in plant layout
• developing Product and Process Layouts
• Comparing Layouts
• criteria for computerized facility layout
• concept of computerized layout programs like CRAFT
• ALDEP & PLANTET

Unit 4 FLOW PATTERNS DESIGNS

8 lecture hours

• Overall system flow cycle
• Need and advantages of planned material flow
• factors for consideration
• designing flow patterns
• Flow patterns for production lines and assembly lines

Unit 5 MATERIAL HANDLING

10 lecture hours

• Scope and functions of Material handling
• Manual mechanical Handling ratio
• Principles of material handling
• Analysis of material handling problem
• Classification of Material Handling system
• salient features and applications of general purpose Material Handling equipment
• Material Handling in stores and warehouses
• automation in part handling
• handling and industrial robots
• Optimum allocation of Material Handling equipment

Unit 6 PLANT MAINTENCNCE

10 lecture hours

• Role of maintenance management
• Organization & systems of maintenance management
• Different types of maintenance management
• Their purpose and features
• Preventive and Predictive maintenance techniques
• Introduction to Total Productive Maintenance: Concepts
• Tools and Procedure

Unit 7 INDUSTRIAL ACTS AND SAFETY

6 lecture hours

• Background of Industrial hazards and safety
• Safety equipment’s
• effect of accidents- their causes and prevention measures
• safety planning and plant maintenance
• Industrial Acts and Industrial Labor Regulations: Importance and necessity of labor regulations
• labor laws
• Factory Act- 1948
• Payment of Wages Act- 1936
• Industrial Dispute Act-1947
• Collective bargaining