Recent Advances in Manufacturing
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Recent Advances in Manufacturing Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Recent Advances in Manufacturing (subject code 2182502) as prescribed for Production · Semester 8 divides the course into 4 units, covering 29 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 (2182502)Unit 1 Enterprise Resource Planning
- Role of management information system
- MIS & Production/ operation system
- Decision making information system
- Information value & measuring the information value
- Assessing information needs Identification & development of information sources
- design & development of information flow network
- Different ERP modules and their Implementation procedures
- Role of ERP in productivity improvement
- ERP for different types of manufacturing systems
- Software and Hardware need for ERP implementation
Unit 2 Logistic and Supply Chain Management
- Role of supply chain
- Different models of supply chain management
- Optimization of transport Network
- Zero inventories
Unit 3 Japanese Manufacturing Systems
- Japanese approach for productivity improvement
- Concepts like JIT, KANBAN systems
- KAIZEN Philosophy
- Manufacturing Improvement techniques such as SMED
- JIDOKA, TPS, 5S
Unit 4 Value Analysis and Value Engineering
- Concept of value analysis
- Definition of value analysis
- Objectives of value analysis
- Difference between value analysis and value engineering
- When to apply value analysis
- Stages in value analysis
- Techniques of value analysis and value engineering
- Un-necessary costs
- Test for value analysis
- Advantages of value analysis
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