Product Design and Development for Petrochemical Engineers detailed syllabus for Petrochemical Engineering (PCE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the PCE 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 Petrochemical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PCE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to PCE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of product design and development for petrochemical engineers is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9
Strategic importance of Product development – integration of customer, designer, material supplier and process planner, Competitor and customer – behavior analysis. Understanding customerpromoting customer understanding-involve customer in development and managing requirements – Organization process management and improvement.
Unit II
CONCEPT GENERATION, SELECTION AND TESTING 9
Plan and establish product specifications. Task – Structured approaches – clarification – search externally and internally-Explore systematically – reflect on the solutions and processes – concept selection – methodology – benefits. Implications – Product change – variety – component standardization – product performance – manufacturability.
Unit III
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Unit IV
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 9
Integrate process design – Managing costs – Robust design – Integrating CAE, CAD, CAM tools -Simulating product performance and manufacturing processes electronically – Need for industrial design-impact – design process – investigation of customer needs – conceptualization – refinement – management of the industrial design process.
Unit V
DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 9
Definition – Estimation of Manufacturing cost-reducing the component costs and assembly costs -Minimize system complexity – Prototype basics – Principles of prototyping – Planning for prototypes – Economic Analysis.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course students are expected to
- Know the basic concepts and importance of product design.
- Understand the planning, selection criteria of the design and products.
- Gain knowledge about the product management and architecture.
- Understand the industrial design and tools for designs.
- Understand the economic analysis of the design.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Belz A., 36-Hour Course: “Product Development” McGraw-Hill, 2010.
- Rosenthal S., “Effective Product Design and Development”, Business One Orwin, Homewood, 1992, ISBN 1-55623-603-4.
- Pugh S., “Total Design – Integrated Methods for successful Product Engineering”, Addison Wesley Publishing, 1991, ISBN 0-202-41639-5
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Petrochemical Engineering 5th Sem, visit PCE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Petrochemical Engineering results, visit Anna University PCE all semester results direct link.