Facility Design detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the IEM students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Industrial Engineering & Management 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IEM 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to IEM Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of facility design is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PLANT LOCATION 9
Introduction, Factors affecting location decisions, Qualitative models, Quantitative models, Break-Even analysis model, Brown & Gibbs model, Single facility location models, Gravity location models, Mini-Sum model, Mini-Max model, Multi facility location models, Covering model, Warehouse location model.
Unit II
FACILITIES LAYOUT DESIGN 9
Need for layout study, COURSE OBJECTIVES of a good facility layout, Classification of layout, Layout procedure – Nadler’s ideal system approach – Immer’s basic steps – Apple’s layout procedure – Reed’s layout procedure, Layout planning – Systematic layout planning(SLP) – Information gathering, Flow analysis & Activity analysis, Relationship diagram, Space requirement and availability, Designing the layout.
Unit III
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Unit IV
DESIGNING PRODUCT LAYOUT 9
Line balancing – COURSE OBJECTIVES, Line balancing techniques – Largest candidate rule (LCR) – Kilbridge & Wester method (KWM) – Rank Positional Weight method (RPW) -COMSOAL, Mixed model assembly line balancing.
Unit V
MATERIALS HANDLING AND PACKAGING 9
Scope and definitions of material handling – COURSE OBJECTIVES, Principles of material handling, Unit load concept, Material handling system design, Classification of material handling equipments, Equipment selection & specification, JIT impact on facilities design, Packaging.
Course Outcomes:
Students should be able to
- apply and evaluate appropriate location models for various facility types.
- effectively design and analyze various facility layouts.
- apply and analyze various computerized techniques while designing a layout.
- effectively implement a strategy to level the workload across all the workstations.
- implement smooth and cost effective system in the material handling process.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- James, Apple, “Material Handling System Design”, Ronald Press, 1980.
- Krajewski. J and Ritzman, “Operations management – Strategy and Analysis”, Addison -Wesley publishing company, 5th edition, 1999.
- Pannerselvam.R, “Production and Operations Management”, PHI, 2017
- Richard Francis. L. and John A. White, “Facilities Layout and location – an analytical approach”, PHI., 2002.
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