Industrial Engineering

Overview of Industrial Engineering: Types of production systems, concept of productivity, productivity measurement in manufacturing and service organizations, operations strategies, liability and process design. Facility location and layout: Factors affecting facility location; principle of plant layout design, types of plant layout; computer aided layout design techniques; assembly line balancing; materials handling principles, types of material handling systems, methods of process planning, steps in process selection, production equipment and tooling selection, group technology, and flexible manufacturing.

Production Planning and control: Forecasting techniques–causal and time series models, moving average, exponential smoothing, trend and seasonality; aggregate production planning; master production scheduling; materials requirement planning (MRP) and MRP‐II; routing, scheduling and priority dispatching, concept of JIT manufacturing system. Project Management: Project network analysis, CPM, PERT and Project crashing.

Engineering economy and Inventory control: Definition and Meaning of management, Methods of depreciation; break‐even analysis, techniques for evaluation of capital investments, financial statements, time‐cost trade‐off, resource levelling; Inventory functions, costs, classifications, deterministic inventory models, perpetual and periodic inventory control systems, ABC analysis, and VED analysis. Queuing Theory: Basis of Queuing theory, elements of queuing theory, Operating characteristics of a queuing system, Classification of Queuing models.

Work System Design: Taylor’s scientific management, Gilbreths’s contributions; work study: method study, micro‐motion study, principles of motion economy; work measurement–time study, work sampling, standard data, Predetermined motion time system (PMTS); ergonomics; job evaluation, merit rating, incentive schemes, and wage administration. Product Design and Development: Principles of product design, tolerance design; quality and cost considerations; product life cycle; standardization, simplification, diversification, value engineering and analysis, and concurrent engineering.

Operational Analysis: Formulation of LPP, Graphical solution of LPP, Simplex Method, Sensitivity Analysis, degeneracy and unbound solutions. Transportation and assignment models; Optimality test: the stepping stone method and MODI method, simulation.