Facility Design detailed syllabus for Production Engineering (Production) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Production 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 Production Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Production 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to Production Professional Elective-II 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, MiniMax model, Multi facility location models, Covering model, Warehouse location model.
Unit II
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Unit III
COMPUTERIZED LAYOUT PLANNING 9 Designing the process layout – CRAFT, ALDEP, CORELAP – Trends in computerized layout, Group technology models – Production flow analysis (PFA) – Rank order clustering (ROC).
Unit IV
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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:
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Text Books:
- Tompkins, J.A. and White J A et al., Facilities planning, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
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.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Production Engineering 5th Sem, visit Production 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Production Engineering results, visit Anna University Production all semester results direct link.