Productivity Improvement Methods
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Productivity Improvement Methods Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Productivity Improvement Methods (subject code 2172502) as prescribed for Production · Semester 7 divides the course into 3 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2172502)Unit 1 Productivity Management
- Concept and Importance of productivity
- Difference between Production and Productivity
- Tools of productivity
- Reasons for low productivity
- Factors that help increasing productivity
- Productivity index
- Kinds of productivity measurement
- Causes of low productivity and techniques of their elimination
- Factors affecting productivity
- Technical methods to improve productivity
- Main contributors to productivity improvement
- Advantages from increased productivity
Unit 2 Method Study
- Objectives and Procedure of method study
- Process chart symbols
- recording techniques like Flow process charts
- Flow and Two handed Process charts
- Flow diagram
- String diagram
- Multiple Activity chart
- Operation Analysis
- Analysis of motion
- Motion economy
- Design of work place layout
- SIMO chart
Unit 3 Work Measurement
- Concept and Objectives of work measurement
- Stop watch procedure for collecting time study data
- Time estimating techniques like analytical estimating
- Predetermine Motion Time System-PMTS
- Elemental Motion Time System
- Basic Motion Time System
- Method Time Measurement
- Work factor
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