Industrial Management
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Industrial Management Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Management (subject code 3361903) as prescribed for Mechatronics · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 30 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 (3361903)Unit 1 Critical Path Method (CPM) and Programme Evaluation Review Technique (PERT).
- 2.1. CPM & PERT-meaning, features, difference, applications.
- 2.2. Understand different terms used in network diagram.
- 2.3. Draw network diagram for a real life project containing 10-15 activities, computation of LPO and EPO.(Take minimum three examples).
- 2.4. Determination of critical path on network.
- 2.5. Floats, its types and determination of floats.
- 2.6. Crashing of network, updating and its applications. Industrial Management Course Code: 3361903 GTU/ NITTTR Bhopal/14-15 Gujarat State 3 Unit Major Learning Outcomes (in cognitive domain) Topics and Sub-topics
Unit 2 Materials Management.
- 3.1. Material management-definition, functions, importance, relationship with other departments.
- 3.2. Purchase - objectives, purchasing systems, purchase procedure, terms and forms used in purchase department.
- 3.3. Storekeeping- functions, classification of stores as centralized and decentralized with their advantages, disadvantages and application in actual practice.
- 3.4. Functions of store, types of records maintained by store, various types and applications of storage equipment, need and general methods for codification of stores.
- 3.5. Inventory control: i. Definition. ii. Objectives. iii. Derivation for expression for Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) and numeric examples. iv. ABC analysis and other modern methods of analysis. v. Various types of inventory models such as Wilson’s inventory model, replenishment model and two bin model. (Only sketch and understanding, no derivation.).
- 3.6. Material Requirement Planning (MRP)- concept, applications and brief details about software packages available in market.
Unit 3 Production planning and Control (PPC).
- 4.1. Types and examples of production.
- 4.2. PPC : i. Need and importance. ii. Functions. iii. Forms used and their importance. iv. General approach for each type of production.
- 4.3. Scheduling- meaning and need for productivity and utilisation.
- 4.4. Gantt chart- Format and method to prepare.
- 4.5. Critical ratio scheduling-method and numeric examples. Industrial Management Course Code: 3361903 GTU/ NITTTR Bhopal/14-15 Gujarat State 4 Unit Major Learning Outcomes (in cognitive domain) Topics and Sub-topics affecting the bottlenecking.
- 4.6. Scheduling using Gantt Chart (for at least 5-7 components having 5-6 machining operations, with processes, setting and operation time for each component and process, resources available, quantity and other necessary data), At least two examples.
- 4.7. Bottlenecking- meaning, effect and ways to reduce.
Unit 4 Value Analysis (VA) and Cost Control.
- 5.1. VA-definition, terms used, process and importance.
- 5.2. VA flow diagram.
- 5.3. DARSIRI method of VA.
- 5.4. Case study of VA-at least two.
- 5.5. Waste-types, sources and ways to reduce them.
- 5.6. Cost control-methods and important guide lines.
Unit 5 Recent Trends in IM.
- 6.1. ERP (Enterprise resource planning) - concept, features and applications.
- 6.2. Important features of MS Project.
- 6.3. Logistics- concept, need and benefits.
- 6.4. Just in Time (JIT)-concept and benefits.
- 6.5. Supply chain management-concept and benefits.