Product Design and Cost Estimation detailed syllabus for Plastics Technology (Plastics) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Plastics 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 Plastics Technology 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Plastics 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Plastics Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of product design and cost estimation is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 9
Principles of creativity in design- integrated product development and concurrent engineering – Product analysis – Criteria for product design – Market research – Design for customer and design for manufacture – Product life cycle.
Unit II
ECONOMICS OF DESIGN 9
Break Even point – Selection of optimal materials and processes – Material layout planning – Value analysis – Re-engineering and its impact on product development.
Unit III
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Unit IV
PRODUCT COSTING 9
Bill of materials – Outline Process charts – Concepts of operational standard time – Work measurement by analytical estimation and synthesis of time – Budget times – Labor cost and material cost at every stage of manufacture – W.I.P. costing
Unit V
RECENT ADVANCES AND CONCEPTS IN PRODUCT DESIGN 9
Fundamentals of Finite Element Method (FEM) and its significance in product design – Product life cycle management – Intelligent information system – Concept of Knowledge based product and process design.
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the fundamentals of product design
- Attain the knowledge in value analysis & Re-engineering
- Understand the.product modeling and standardization
- Understand the concept of costing in product design
- Gain knowledge in various advances in product design
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Harry Nystrom, “Creativity and Innovation”, John Wiley & Sons, 1979
- George e. Dieter, “Engineering Design – Materials and process approach”, Tata Mcgraw-Hill, 3rd edition,2003
- R. Kesavan,C. Elanchezhian,B. Vijaya Ramnath ,Process Planning And Cost Estimation New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers,2018
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Plastics Technology 5th Sem, visit Plastics 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Plastics Technology results, visit Anna University Plastics all semester results direct link.