Facility Layout and Safety in Material Handling detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE 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 Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of facility layout and safety in material handling is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PLANT LOCATION 9
Introduction, Factors affecting location decisions , Location theory , Qualitative models , SemiQuantitative models -Composite measure , Brown & Gibbs model , Break-Even analysis model, Single facility location problems – Median model, Gravity location model, Mini-Max model, Multifacility location problems, Network and warehouse location problems.
Unit II
FACILITY LAYOUT DESIGN 9
Need for Layout study, Factors influencing plant layout, Objectives of a good facility layout, Classification of layout, Layout procedure – Nadler’s ideal system approach, Immer’s basic steps, Apple’s layout procedure, Reed’s layout procedure -Layout planning – Systematic Layout Planning
– Information gathering, flow analysis and activity analysis, relationship diagram, space requirements and availability, designing the layout. Utilities planning
Unit III
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Unit IV
DESIGNING PRODUCT LAYOUT 9
Line balancing – Objectives, Line balancing techniques – Largest Candidate rule- Kilbridge and Wester method- RPW method- COMSOAL.
Unit V
MATERIAL HANDLING AND PACKAGING 9
Objectives and benefits of Material handling, Relationship between layout and Material handling, Principles of material handling, Unit load concept, Classification of material handling equipments, Equipment selection, Packaging.
Course Outcomes:
- Students must analyse, design and apply layout principles for layout product, material handling and packaging.
- Describe and determine the effect of product, process, and schedule design parameters on plant layout and materials handling systems design.
- Develop and analyse plant layouts using manual and computer aided software methodologies.
- Identify and select various types of material handling equipment.
- Design material handling systems for a variety of scenarios pertaining to manufacturing and service industry.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- James, Apple, “Material Handling System design”, Ronald Press, 1980.
- Krajewski, J. and Ritzman, “Operations Management – Strategy and Analysis”, Addison Wesley publishing company, 5th Edition, 1999.
- Pannerselvam.R, “Production and Operations Management”, PHI, 2nd Edition, 2005
- Tompkins, White et al., “Facilities planning”, John Wiley & Sons, inc. 2003.
- Facilities Planning Hardcover – James A. Tompkins (Author), John A. White (Author), Yavuz A. Bozer (Author), J. M. A. Tanchoco (Author)
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem, visit SFE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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