Production Planning and Control detailed syllabus for Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MSE 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 Materials Science & Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MSE 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Open Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to MSE Open Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of production planning and control is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION Objectives and benefits of planning and control-Functions of production control-Types of production- job- batch and continuous-Product development and design-Marketing aspect -Functional aspects- Operational aspect-Durability and dependability aspect aesthetic aspect. Profit consideration- Standardization, Simplification & specialization- Break even analysis-Economics of a new design.
Unit II
WORK STUDY Method study, basic procedure-Selection-Recording of process – Critical analysis, Development -Implementation – Micro motion and memo motion study – work measurement – Techniques of work measurement – Time study – Production study – Work sampling – Synthesis from standard data -Predetermined motion time standards.
Unit III
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Unit IV
PRODUCTION SCHEDULING Production Control Systems-Loading and scheduling-Master Scheduling-Scheduling rules-Gantt charts-Perpetual loading-Basic scheduling problems – Line of balance – Flow production scheduling- Batch production scheduling-Product sequencing – Production Control systems-Periodic batch control-Material requirement planning kanban – Dispatching-Progress reporting and expediting- Manufacturing lead time-Techniques for aligning completion times and due dates.
Unit V
INVENTORY CONTROL AND RECENT TRENDS IN PPC Inventory control-Purpose of holding stock-Effect of demand on inventories-Ordering procedures. Two bin system – Ordering cycle system-Determination of Economic order quantity and economic lot size- ABC analysis – Recorder procedure-Introduction to computer integrated production planning systems- elements of JUST IN TIME SYSTEMS-Fundamentals of MRP II and ERP.
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course,
- The students can able to prepare production planning and control act work study,
- The students can able to prepare product planning,
- The students can able to prepare production scheduling,
- The students can able to prepare Inventory Control.
- They can plan manufacturing requirements manufacturing requirement Planning (MRP II) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Chary. S.N., “Theory and Problems in Production & Operations Management”, Tata McGraw Hill, 1995.
- Elwood S.Buffa, and Rakesh K.Sarin, “Modern Production / Operations Management”, 8th Edition John Wiley and Sons, 2000
- Jain. K.C. & Aggarwal. L.N., “Production Planning Control and Industrial Management”, Khanna Publishers, 1990
- Kanishka Bedi, “Production and Operations management”, 2nd Edition, Oxford university press, 2007.
- Melynk, Denzler, “Operations management – A value driven approach” Irwin Mcgraw hill.
- Norman Gaither, G. Frazier, “Operations Management” 9th Edition, Thomson learning IE, 2007
- Samson Eilon, “Elements of Production Planning and Control”, Universal Book Corpn.1984
- Upendra Kachru, “Production and Operations Management – Text and cases” 1st Edition, Excel books 2007.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Materials Science & Engineering 7th Sem, visit MSE 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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