Lean and Agile Manufacturing 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-II scheme and its subjects refer to IEM Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of lean and agile manufacturing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO LEAN MANUFACTURING 9
Introduction to Lean-Definition, Purpose, features of Lean, tops evenwastes, Need for Lean, Elements of Lean Manufacturing.
Unit II
LEAN MANUFACTURING TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES
Lean manufacturing Tools – 5S principles – Total Productive Maintenance – Pillars of TPM-Total quality management – Principles and implementation.
Unit III
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Unit IV
AGILE PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND PRACTICES 9
Agile production system – the task aligned organization – agile manufacturing production system – production planning and control, quality assurance, purchasing, maintenance, overview of production support, business operation, engineering, human resource, finance and accounting. Agile practices – Agile practice for product development – manufacturing agile practice – understanding the value of investing in people, removing inappropriate fear from the shop floor – not scarifying agility for perfectionism
Unit V
MANAGEMENT IN THE AGILE ORGANISATION 9
Old management styles, role of manager in an agile organization – vision champion, team leader, coach, business analyzer, supporting the new culture – performance appraisal systems, reward and recognition systems, organizational measurement, organizational learning processes.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
- Identify the waste in various manufacturing process.
- Understanding principles of cellular manufacturing, JIT and TPM
- Reduce the manufacturing time by applying concepts of TQM, 5S and VSM.
- get knowledgeonsixsigmaapproach
- get knowledge on applying theleanmanufacturingtools andtechniques
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