Lean manufacturing detailed syllabus for Fashion Technology (FT) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the FT 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 Fashion Technology 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit FT 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to FT Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of lean manufacturing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO LEAN MANUFACTURING 9
Conventional Manufacturing versus Lean Manufacturing – Principles of Lean Manufacturing -Basic elements of lean manufacturing – Introduction to LM Tools. Cellular Manufacturing – Types of Layout, Principles of Cell layout, Implementation.
Unit II
JIT, TPM, 5S CONCEPTS 9
JIT – Principles of JIT and Implementation of Kanban. Application of KANBAN Cards for production planning and control for traceability and identification. Continuous Improvement -application of KAIZEN in reducing rejections. TPM – Pillars of TPM, Principles and implementation of TPM. 5S Principles and implementation – Value stream mapping – Procedure and principles.
Unit III
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Unit IV
TQM Tools and Techniques: 13
The seven traditional tools of quality, New management tools, and Six sigma: Concepts, methodology, applications to manufacturing, service sector including IT, Bench marking, Reason to bench mark, Bench marking process, FMEA, Stages, and Types. Quality circles, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Taguchi quality loss function, Concepts, improvement needs, Cost of Quality, Performance measures
Unit V
SIX SIGMA 5
Six Sigma – Definition, statistical considerations, variability reduction, design of experiments – Six Sigma implementation
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student would be able to
- Understand the principles and elements of lean manufacture
- Gain skill on JIT, TPM and 5S principles
- Comprehend application of lean concepts and tools in inventory and production control
- Understand tQm Tools and Techniques
- Understand the application of Six Sigma concepts for manufacturing and process control
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Ronald G. Askin& Jeffrey B, “Design and Analysis of Lean Production Systems”, Goldberg,John Wiley & Sons, 2003
- Gopalakrishnan N, “Simplified Lean Manufacture: Elements, Rules, Tools and Implementation”,Prentice Hall of India Learning Pvt. Ltd., 2010
- Rother M. and Shook J, “Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate Muda”, Lean Enterprise Institute, Brookline, MA, 1999
- Dale H.Besterfiled, “Total Quality Management”, Pearson Education Asia
- PoornimaCharantimath, “Total Quality Management”, Pearson Education Asia
- Tapan Bose “Total Quality Management”, Pearson Education
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