AFFLIATED INSTITUTIONS

ANNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY CHENNAI

CHENNAI 600 113
REGULATIONS - 2010
CURRICULUM AND SYLLABUS IV SEMESTER (PART TIME DAY TIME )
M.E. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

SEMESTER IV

SL. COURSE
COURSE TITLE L T P C
No CODE
THEORY
1 224207 Supply Chain Management 3 0 0 3
2 E3 Elective III 3 0 0 3
3 E4 Elective IV 3 0 0 3
PRACTICAL
4 224291 Seminar 0 0 2 1
TOTAL 9 0 2 10

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 ELECTIVES FOR M.E. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

SL. COURSE
COURSE TITLE L T P C
No CODE
1 224065 Facilities Planning and Design 3 0 0 3
2 224090 Advanced Optimization Techniques 3 0 0 3
3 224066 Reliability Engineering 3 0 0 3
4 224067 Scheduling Algorithms 3 0 0 3
5 224061 Product Innovation and Development 3 0 0 3
Productivity Management and Re-
6 224068 3 0 0 3
Engineering
7 224069 Total Quality Management and systems 3 0 0 3
8 224070 Maintainability Engineering 3 0 0 3
9 224071 Human Factors and Ergonomics 3 0 0 3
10 224064 Software Quality Engineering 3 0 0 3
11 224063 Engineering Economics 3 0 0 3
12 224062 Lean Six Sigma 3 0 0 3
13 224072 Decision Support Systems 3 0 0 3
14 224073 Design and Analysis of Algorithms 3 0 0 3
15 224074 Applied Object oriented programming 3 0 0 3
Management Accounting and Financial
16 224075 3 0 0 3
Management
17 224076 Industrial Automation 3 0 0 3
18 224077 Business Excellence Models 3 0 0 3
19 224078 Knowledge Management 3 0 0 3
20 224079 System Science and Systems Engineering 3 0 0 3
21 224080 Industrial Safety and Hygiene 3 0 0 3
22 224081 Logistics and Distribution Management 3 0 0 3
23 224082 Project Management 3 0 0 3
24 224083 Service Operations Management 3 0 0 3
25 224084 Industrial Psychology 3 0 0 3
26 224085 Multi Variate Data Analysis 3 0 0 3
27 224086 Technology Management 3 0 0 3
28 224087 Data Analysis 3 0 0 3
29 224088 Systems Analysis and Design 3 0 0 3
30 224089 Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems 3 0 0 3

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224207 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT LTPC
3 00 3

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 6

Definition of Logistics and SCM: Evolution, Scope, Importance& Decision Phases –

Drivers of SC Performance and Obstacles.

UNIT II LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT 10

Factors – Modes of Transportation - Design options for Transportation Networks-

Routing and Scheduling – Inbound and outbound logistics- Reverse Logistics – 3PL-
Integrated Logistics Concepts- Integrated Logistics Model – Activities - Measuring
logistics cost and performance – Warehouse Management - Case Analysis

UNIT III SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK DESIGN 10

Distribution in Supply Chain – Factors in Distribution network design –Design

options-Network Design in Supply Chain – Framework for network Decisions -
Managing cycle inventory and safety.

UNIT IV SOURCING, AND PRICING IN SUPPLY CHAIN 9

Supplier selection and Contracts - Design collaboration - Procurement process.

Revenue management in supply chain

UNIT V COORDINATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPLY CHAIN 10

Supply chain coordination - Bullwhip effect – Effect of lack of co-ordination and

obstacles – IT and SCM - supply chain IT frame work. E Business & SCM. Metrics for
SC performance – Case Analysis

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Supply Chain Management, Strategy, Planning, and operation – Sunil Chopra

and Peter Meindl- PHI, Second edition, 2007
2. Logistics, David J.Bloomberg, Stephen Lemay and Joe B.Hanna, PHI 2002
3. Logistics and Supply Chain Management –Strategies for Reducing Cost and
Improving Service. Martin Christopher, Pearson Education Asia, Second Edition
4. Modeling the supply chain, Jeremy F.Shapiro, Thomson Duxbury, 2002
5. Handbook of Supply chain management, James B.Ayers, St.Lucle Press, 2000

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224065 FACILITIES PLANNING AND DESIGN LTPC
300 3

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 5

Facilities requirement, need for layout study – types of layout.

UNIT II PLANT LOCATION 10

Plant location analysis – factors, costs, location decisions – single facility location
models, multi facility location models- set covering problem – warehouse location
problems.

UNIT III LAYOUT DESIGN 10

Design cycle – SLP procedure, computerized layout planning procedure – ALDEP,

CORELAP, CRAFT

UNIT IV GROUP TECHNOLOGY AND LINE BALANCING 10

Group technology – Production Flow analysis (PFA), ROC (Rank Order Clustering) –
Line balancing.

UNIT V MATERIAL HANDLING 10

Principles, unit load concept, material handling system design, handling equipment
types, selection and specification, containers and packaging.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES

1. Tompkins, J.A. and J.A.White, “Facilities planning”, John Wiley, 2003.

2. Richard Francis.L. and John A.White, “Facilities Layout and location - an
analytical approach”, PHI., 2002.
3. James Apple, M.Plant layout and “Material Handling”, John Wiley, 1977.
4. Pannerselvam,R, “Production and Operations Management”, PHI,2007

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224090 ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES LTPC
3 0 03

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 5

Classification of optimization problems, concepts of design vector, Design

constraints, constrains surface, objective function surface and multi-level
optimization, parametric linear programming

UNIT II DECISION ANALYSIS 10

Decision Trees, Utility theory, Game theory, Multi Objective Optimization, MCDM-
Goal Programming, Analytic Hierarchy process

UNIT III NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION 15

Unconstrained one variable and multi variable optimization, KKT Conditions,

Constrained optimization, Quadratic programming, Convex programming, Separable
programming, Geometric programming, Non-Convex programming

UNIT IV NON-TRADITIONAL OPTIMIZATION 10

Over view of Genetic algorithms, Simulated Annealing, neural network based

optimization, Optimization of Fuzzy Systems

UNIT V NP-COMPLETE PROBLEMS 5

The classes P and NP, Polynomial time reductions, Introduction to NP- Hard
problems

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Singiresu S.Rao, “Engineering optimization – Theory and practices”, John Wiley

and Sons, 1996.
2. Ravindran – Phillips –Solberg, “Operations Research – Principles and Practice”,
John Wiley India, 2006.
3. Fredrick S.Hillier and G.J.Liberman, “Introduction to Operations Research”,
McGraw Hill Inc. 1995.
4. Kalymanoy Deb, “Optimization for Engineering Design”,PHI,2003
5. Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz, Combinatorial Optimization, PHI
2006

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224066 RELIABILITY ENGINEERING LTPC
3 0 0 3

UNIT I RELIABILITY CONCEPT 9

Reliability definition – Reliability applications – Reliability mathematics – f(t), F(t), R(t)

functions – Hazard rate function – Reliability parameters – Measures of central
tendency – Design life –A priori and posteriori probabilities – Component mortality –
Mortality curve – Useful life.

UNIT II LIFE DATA ANALYSIS 11

Data classification –Nonparametric methods: Ungrouped, Grouped, Complete,

Censored data – Time to failure distributions – Probability plotting: Exponential,
Weibull –Goodness of fit tests – Survival graphs.

UNIT III RELIABILITY MODELLING 10

Series parallel configurations – Parallel redundancy – k out of n system – Complex

systems: RBD method – Baye’s approach – Minimal path and cut sets – Fault Tree
Analysis – Standby system – Physical reliability models.

UNIT IV RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT 8

Reliability testing: Failure terminated test – Time terminated test – Upper and lower
MTBFs –Sequential Testing –Reliability growth monitoring – Reliability allocation –
Software reliability – Human reliability.

UNIT V RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT 7

Analysis of downtime – Repair time distribution – System repair time – Maintainability

prediction – Measures of maintainability – Availability definitions –System
Availability – Replacement decisions – Economic life.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCE:

1. Charles E. Ebeling, “An introduction to Reliability and Maintainability

Engineering”, TMH, 2000.
2. Roy Billington and Ronald N. Allan, “Reliability Evaluation of Engineering
Systems”, Springer, 2007.

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224067 SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS LTPC
3 0 03

UNIT I SCHEDULING THEORY 7

Scheduling background – Scheduling function – Sequencing – Ready time – Flow

time – Tardiness - Weighted flow time – Inventory – Regular measures of
performance – Dominant schedules – SPT, EDD, WSPT sequences – Scheduling
Theorems.

UNIT II SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING 10

Pure sequencing model – Hodgson’s algorithm – Smith’s rule – Wilkerson Irwin

algorithm – Neighborhood search – Dynamic programming technique – Branch and
Bound algorithm – Non simultaneous arrivals – Minimizing T and F for dependent
jobs – Sequence dependent set up times.

UNIT III PARALLEL MACHINE SCHEDULING 8

Preemptive jobs: McNaughton’s algorithm – Non preemptive jobs – Heuristic

procedures – Minimizing Fw : H1 & Hm heuristics – Dependent jobs: Hu’s algorithm –
Muntz Coffman algorithm.

UNIT IV FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING 9

Characteristics – Johnson’s algorithm – Extension of Johnson’s rule – Campbell

Dudek Smith algorithm – Palmer’s method – Start lag, stop lag – Mitten’s algorithm –
Ignall Schrage algorithm - Despatch index heuristic.

UNIT V JOB SHOP SCHEDULING 9

Characteristics –Graphical tools – Jackson’s algorithm – Feasible, Semi-active and

Active schedules – Single pass approach – Non delay schedule – Priority dispatching
rules – Heuristic schedule generation – Open shop scheduling.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCE:

1. Kenneth R.Baker, “Introduction to sequencing and scheduling”, John Wiley &

Sons, New York, 2000.
2. Richard W. Conway, William L.Maxwell and Louis W. Miller,“Theory of
Scheduling”, Dover Publications, 2003.

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224061 PRODUCT INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT LTPC
300 3

UNIT I PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND CONCEPT SELECTION 10

Product development process – Product development organizations- Identifying the

customer needs – Establishing the product specifications – concept generation –
Concept selection.

UNIT II PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE 7

Product architecture – Implication of the architecture – Establishing the architecture –

Related system level design issues.

UNIT III INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING DESIGN 10

Need for industrial design – Impact of industrial design – Industrial design process.
Assessing the quality of industrial design- Human Engineering consideration
-Estimate the manufacturing cost – Reduce the component cost – Reduce the
assembly cost – Reduce the support cost – Impact of DFM decisions on other factors

UNIT IV PROTOTYPING AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 9

Principles of prototyping – Planning for prototypes - Elements of economic analysis –

Base case financial model – Sensitivity analysis – Influence of the quantitative factors

UNIT V MANAGING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 9

Sequential, parallel and coupled tasks - Baseline project planning – Project Budget-
Project execution – Project evaluation- patents- patent search-patent laws-
International code for patents.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOK :

1. Karal .T. Ulrich, Steven D.Eppinger, Product Design and Development,

McGRAW- HILL International Editions.2003.

REFERENCES:
1. S.Rosenthal, Effective product design and development, Irwin 1992.
2. Charles Gevirtz, Developing New products with TQM, McGraw – Hill
International editions, 1994

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224068 PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT AND RE-ENGINEERING LTPC
300 3

UNIT I PRODUCTIVITY 9

Productivity Concepts – Macro and Micro factors of productivity – Dynamics of

Productivity - Productivity Cycle Productivity Measurement at International, National
and Organisation level - Productivity measurement models

UNIT II SYSTEMS APPROACH TO PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT 9

Conceptual frame work, Management by Objectives (MBO), Performance

Objectivated Productivity (POP) – Methodology and application to manufacturing
and service sector.

UNIT III ORGANISATIONAL TRANSFORMATION 9

Elements of Organisational Transformation and Reengineering-Principles of

organizational transformation and re-engineering, fundamentals of process re-
engineering, preparing the workforce for transformation and re-engineering,
methodology, guidelines, LMI CIP Model – DSMC Q & PMP model.

UNIT IV RE-ENGINEERING PROCESS IMPROVEMENT MODELS 9

PMI models, PASIM Model, Moen and Nolan Strategy for process improvement,
LMICIP Model, NPRDC Model.

UNIT V RE-ENGINEERING TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTATION 9

Analytical and process tools and techniques – Information and Communication

Technology – Implementation of Reengineering Projects – Success Factors and
common implementation Problem – Cases.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Sumanth, D.J., ‘Productivity Engineering and Management’, TMH, New Delhi,

1990.
2. Edosomwan, J.A., “Organisational Transformation and Process Re-engineering”,
Library Cataloging in Pub. Data, 1996.
3. Rastogi, P.N., “Re-engineering and Re-inventing the Enterprise”, Wheeler Pub.
New Delhi, 1995.
4. Premvrat, Sardana, G.D. and Sahay, B.S., “Productivity Management – A
Systems Approach”, Narosa Publishing House. New Delhi, 1998.

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224069 TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS LTPC
3 003

UNIT I CONCEPTS AND PHILOSOPHY 9

Basic concepts, need for TQM, principles of TQM, Quality philosophies of Deming,
Crosby, Juran, Ishikawa and Feigenbaum, TQM models.

UNIT II TQM PROCESS 9

QC tools, problem solving methodologies, new management tools, quality circles,

bench marking, strategic quality planning.

UNIT III TQM SYSTEMS 9

Quality policy deployment, quality function deployment, introduction to BPR and

FMEA.

UNIT IV QUALITY SYSTEM 9

Need for ISO 9000 system, advantages, clauses of ISO 9000, Implementation of ISO
9000, QS9000 systems, introduction to EMS, quality costs, quality auditing, case
studies.

UNIT V IMPLEMENTATION OF TQM 9

KAIZEN, 5S, JIT, POKAYOKE, Taguchi methods, steps in TQM implementation,

national and international quality awards, case studies.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Dale H.Besterfiled, “Total Quality Management”, Pearson Education Asia, (Indian

reprint 2002)
2. Rose, J.E. Total Quality Management, Kogan Page Ltd. 1993.
3. John Bank, The essence of total quality management, PHI 1993.
4. Greg Bounds, Lyle Yorks et al, Beyond Total Quality Management, McGraw Hill,
1994.
5. Takashi Osada, The 5S’s The Asian Productivity Organisation, 1991.
6. Masaki Imami, KAIZEN, McGraw Hill, 1986.

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224070 MAINTAINABILITY ENGINEERING LTPC
30 03

UNIT I MAINTENANCE CONCEPT 6

Need for maintenance – Maintenance definition – Maintenance objectives –

Challenges of Maintenance management – Tero technology – Scope of maintenance
department – Maintenance costs.

UNIT II MAINTENANCE MODELS 12

Proactive/Reactive maintenance – Imperfect maintenance – Maintenance policies –
PM versus b/d maintenance – Optimal PM schedule and product characteristics –
Optimal Inspection frequency: Maximizing profit – Minimizing downtime –
Replacement models.

UNIT III MAINTENANCE LOGISTICS 11

Human factors – Crew size decisions: Learning curves – Simulation – Maintenance
resource requirements: Optimal size of service facility – Optimal repair effort –
Maintenance planning – Maintenance scheduling – Spare parts control – Capital
spare.

UNIT IV MAINTENANCE QUALITY 8

Maintenance excellence –Five Zero concept –FMECA –Root cause analysis –
System effectiveness – Design for maintainability – Maintainability allocation –
CMMS – Reliability Centered Maintenance.

UNIT V TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE 8

TPM features – Chronic and sporadic losses – Equipment defects – Six major losses
– Overall Equipment Effectiveness – TPM pillars –TPM implementation –
Autonomous maintenance.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES:
1. Andrew K.S.Jardine & Albert H.C.Tsang, “Maintenance, Replacement and
Reliability”, Taylor and Francis, 2006.
2. Bikas Badhury & S.K.Basu, “Tero Technology: Reliability Engineering and
Maintenance Management”, Asian Books, 2003.
3. Seichi Nakajima, “Total Productive Maintenance”, Productivity Press,
1993.

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224071 HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS LTPC
3 0 0 3

UNIT I PHYSIOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE 10

Factors affecting physiological performance, physical work load and energy

expenditure, heat stress, manual lifting, shift work

UNIT II WORK SPACE DESIGN 10

Anthropometry, Workspace designs for standing and seated workers, arrangement of

components within a physical space, interpersonal aspect of workplace design.

UNIT III DESIGN OF EQUIPMENT 10

Ergonomic factors to be considered in the design of displays and control, design for
maintainability, design of human computer interaction.

UNIT IV COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS 5

Information Theory, Information processing, signal detection theory, Human

response, human errors, cognitive task analysis.

UNIT V DESIGN OF ENVIRONMENT 10

Vision and Illumination design – Noice and Vibration

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Martin Helander, A guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics, 2 nd Edition, CRC,

Taylor & Francis Group 2006.
2. Bridger, R.S., Introduction to Ergonomics, McGraw Hill, 1995.
3. MeCormik, J., Human Factors Engineering and Design, McGraw Hill, 1992.

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224064 SOFTWARE QUALITY ENGINEERING LTPC
3 0 0 3

UNIT I SOFTWARE QUALITY 5

Concepts & Costs of quality – Quality Control Vs Quality Assurance – Defect

Prevention vs. Defect Prediction Product Life Cycle- Project Life Cycle Models.
( Traditional and Agile )

UNIT II SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES 10

Estimation , Requirements , Analysis , Architecture , Design , development Testing

and Maintenance

UNIT III SUPPORT ACTIVITIES 10

Reviews- Auditing – Risk Management – Software Quality Assurance- Software

Configuration Management

UNIT IV SOFTWARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT TOOLS 10

Seven Basic Quality Tools- Checklist-Pareto Diagram-Cause and Effect Diagram-

Run Chart- Histogram-Control Chart-Scatter Diagram – Poke Yoke – Statistical
Process Control – Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)- Quality Function
Deployment- Continuous Improvement tools – case study.

UNIT V QUALITY ASSURANCE MODELS 10

Software Quality standards, ISO 9000 series – CMMI– P-CMM – case study.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK

Software Engineering: A Practitioners Approach, 5th Edition Roger S. Pressman

McGraw- Hill International Edition, 6th Edition,2006

REFERENCES:

1. Norman E-Fenton and Share Lawrence Pflieger, Software Metrics, International

Thomson Computer Press, 1997.
2 . Ramesh Gopalswamy, Managing Global Projects; Tata Mcgraw Hill, 2002.
3 Gordon Schulmeyer.G. and James.L.McHanus, Total Quality Management for
Software, International Thomson Computer Press, USA, 1990.
4 Dunn Robert M., Software Quality: Concepts and Plans, Englewood Clifts,
Prentice Hall Inc., 1990.
5. Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, Stephen, Stephen H. Kan
,Pearson Education, 2006, Low Price Edition.

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224063 ENGINEERING ECONOMICS LTPC
300 3
UNIT I DEMAND ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING 10
Managerial Economics – Meaning, Nature and Scope – Managerial Economics and
Business decision making – Role of Managerial Economist – Demand Analysis –
Fundamental Concepts of Managerial Economics – Meaning, Determinants and
Types of Demand – Elasticity of demand - Demand forecasting and forecasting
methods.

UNIT II PRODUCTION FUNCTION AND COST ANALYSIS 10

Supply: Meaning and determinants – production function- Isoquants – Expanstion
path Cobb Douglas function – Cost concepts – Cost output relationship – Economies
and diseconomies of scale – Cost functions- Determination of cost- Estimation of
cost.

UNIT III MARKET COMPETITION AND PRICING 10

Market Structure – Various forms – Equilibrium of a firm – Perfect competition –
Monopolistic competition – Oligopolistic competition – Pricing of products under
different market structures – Methods of pricing – Factors affecting pricing decision –
Differential pricing – Government Intervention and pricing.

UNIT IV PROFIT ANALYSIS 07

The concept of profit: Profit planning, control and measurement of profits. Profit
maximisation – Cost volume profit analysis – Investment Analysis.

UNIT V NATIONAL INCOME AND POLICY 08

National Income – Accounting – Consumption and investment – Business Cycle and
unemployment – Inflation and deflation, Balance of Payments – Monetary and Fiscal
policies.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES :
1. A. Ramachandra Aryasry and V.V. Ramana Murthy. “ Engineering Economics
and Financial Accounting:, Tata Mc graw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New
Delhgi, 2004
2. V.L. Mote, Samuel and G.S.Gupta, “Managerial Economics – Concepts and
cases”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Coimpany Ltd, New Delhi, 1981.
3. A.Nag, :Macro Economics for Management Students” MacMillan India Ltd., New
Delhi, 1999.

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224062 LEAN SIX SIGMA LTPC
3 003

UNIT I EVOLUTION OF LEAN SIX SIGMA 5

Introduction to Lean Principles and Six Sigma Concepts-Similarities and differences

– Synergy-Evolution of Lean Six Sigma

UNIT II LEAN SIX SIGMA APPROACH 8

Lean Six Sigma Methodology- Phases of Lean Six Sigma Method, Managing Lean
Six sigma Project ,Six sigma Methodologies ( DMAIC, DMADV , DFSS)

UNIT III SIX SIGMA TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES 12

Advanced Statistical Tools - Statistical Process Control-Process Capability Analysis

Sigma computation -Hypothesis Testing-ANOVA-Design of Experiments- chi-square
test, Regression analysis –Case studies

UNIT IV LEAN TOOLS 10

Value Stream Mapping – Poka Yoke-5S-Cycle Time Analysis-Push-Pull Systems-

Waste Elimination- Total Productive Maintenance- Failure Mode Effect Analysis-
Standard Work Practices-Control Plans, SMED , Kanban , Visual control , Kaizen –
Case studies

UNIT V LEAN SIX SIGMA IMPLEMENTATION 10

Identifying Lean Six Sigma Projects, Define Scope, Planning for Implementation,
Selection of tools and techniques for each phase, Measuring the Benefits

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Michael L. George, David Rowlands, Bill Kastle ,What is Lean Six Sigma,
McGraw-Hill, 2003
2. Thomas Pyzdek,The Six Sigma Handbook ,McGraw-Hill, 2000
3. James P. Womack , Daniel T. Jones ,Lean Thinking, Free press
business,
2003.
4 Forrest W. Breyfogle III ,Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using
Statistical Methods ,1999.
5. Liker, Jeffrey; Meier, David ,Toyota Talent , Tata Mcgraw Hills

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224072 DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I DECISION MAKING 5

Managerial decision making, system modeling and support-preview of the modeling

process-phases of decision making process.

UNIT II MODELING AND ANALYSIS 12

DSS components- Data warehousing, access, analysis, mining and visualization-

modeling and analysis-DSS development.

UNIT III KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 12

Group support systems- enterprise DSS- supply chain and DSS-knowledge

management methods, technologies and tools.

UNIT IV INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS 12

Artificial intelligence and expert systems-concepts, structure, types-knowledge

acquisition and validation, knowledge representation

UNIT V IMPLEMENTATION 4

Implementation, integration and impact of management support systems.

REFERENCES:

1. Efraim Turban and Jay E Aronson, Decision Support and Intelligent

Systems, Pearson education Asia, Seventh edition, 2005.
2. Elain Rich and Kevin Knight, Artificial intelligence, TMH, 2006.

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224073 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS LTPC
3 003
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 5

Algorithms, basic steps in development.

UNIT II REVIEW OF ANY ONE OF THE STRUCTURED LANGUAGES 10

UNIT III BASIC TOOLS: 5

Top down, Structured programming, networks, data structure.

UNIT IV METHODS OF DESIGN: 10

Sub goals, hill climbing and working backward, heuristics, back track programming,
Branch and bound recursion process, program testing, documentation, Meta
heuristics.

UNIT V APPLICATION: 15

Development of sorting, searching, algorithms- combinatorial problems, shortest

path, probabilistic algorithms.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. John R Hubbard, Fundamentals of Computing with C++, , Tata Mc Graw

Hill,2000.
2. Goodman S.F. & Headtruemu, S.T.,Introduction to the design and analysis of
algorithms, Mcgraw Gill, 2000.
3. Elias Horowitz, Sartaj Sahani, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Fundamentals of
Computer Algorithms, Galgotia Publications, 2003
4. Dromey, “How to solve in by computers, Prentice Hall, 1982.
5. Panneerselvam.R,Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Prentice Hall of
India,2008.

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224074 APPLIED OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LTPC

3 0 03

UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 5

Elements of OOP, classes, subjects, messaging, inheritance, polymorphism, OOP

paradigm versus procedural paradigm, object-oriented design.

UNIT II C++ Basics 15

Expression and statements, operators, precedence, type conversion, control

statements, loops, Arrays structures, functions, argument passing, reference
argument, overloaded function.

UNIT III C++ CLASS 5

Definition, class objects, member functions, , class argument, , operator overloading,

user defined conversions.

UNIT IV CLASS DERIVATION 10

Derivation specification, public and private base classes, standard conversions under
derivation, class scope, initialization and assignment under derivation.

UNIT V APPLICATION 10
OOP’s applications in Industrial Engineering.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES

1. Robert Lafore, “Object oriented programming in C++”, Sam Publishing, 2002.

2. E.Balagurusamy, Object oriented programming with C ++,Tata Mc Graw
Hill,2003
3. Stanley B.Lippman, C++ Printer, Addison – Wesley Pub.Co., 2003.
4. Nabajyoti Barkakati,Object Oriented Programming in C++, Prentice Hall of
India, 2001

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224075 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT L T P C
3 00 3

UNIT I FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 10

Salient features of Balance sheet and Profit & Loss Statement, Cash Flow and Fund
Flow Analysis, Working Capital management, Inventory valuation, Financial Ratio
analysis – Depreciation.

UNIT II COST ACCOUNTING 10

Cost accounting systems: Job costing, Process costing, Allocation of overheads,

Activity based costing, differential cost and incremental cost, Variance analysis,
Software costing.

UNIT III BUDGETING 10

Requirements for a sound budget, fixed budget-preparation of sales and production

budget, flexible budgets, zero base budgeting and budgetary Control.

UNIT IV FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 10

Investment decisions – Capital Investment process, types of investment proposals,

investment appraisal techniques – pay back period method, Accounting rate of
return, net present value method, internal rate of return and profitability index
method.

UNIT V FINANCIAL DECISIONS 5

Cost of Capital – Capital structure – Dividend Policy – Leasing.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Bhattacharya, S.K. and John Deardon, “Accounting for Management – Text

and Cases”, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1996.
2. Charles, T.Horn Green – “Introduction to Management Accounting”, Prentice
Hall, New Delhi, 1996.
3. James, C.Van Horne, “Fundamental of Financial Management”, Pearson
Education, 12th Edition, 2002.
4. Pandey, I.M., “Financial Management”, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi,
8th Edition, 2004.

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224076 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION LTPC
3 0 03
UNIT I AUTOMATION 5

Types of production – Functions – Automation strategies – Production economics –

Costs in manufacturing – Break-even analysis.

UNIT II AUTOMATED FLOW LINES 10

Transfer mechanism - Buffer storage – Analysis of transfer lines - Automated

assembly systems.

UNIT III NUMERICAL CONTROL AND ROBOTICS 10

NC-CNC – Part programming – DNC – Adaptive control – Robot anatomy –

Specifications – End effectors – Sensors - Robot cell design – CAD/CAM.

UNIT IV AUTOMATED HANDLING AND STORAGE 10

Automated material handling systems – AS/RS – carousel storage – Automatic data

capture – bar code technology

UNIT V MANUFACTURING SUPPORT SYSTEMS 10

Product design and CAD, CAD/CAM and CIM, Computer aided process planning-
variant and generative approaches, Concurrent engineering and design for
manufacture, Lean production, Agile manufacturing.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Mikell P.Groover, “Automation, Production Systems and Computer Integrated

Manufacturing” PHI, 2003.
2. Weatherall, “Computer Integrated Manufacturing – A total company strategy”,
2nd edition, 1995.

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224077 BUSINESS EXCELLENCE MODELS LTPC
3 00 3

UNIT I BUSINESS EXCELLENCE MODELS 8

Business Excellence Concepts – Need for BE models – Pioneers in the model

MBNQA , EFQM and DEMING award

UNIT II MBNQA 12

Criteria : : LEADERSHIP , Strategic planning , Customer and Market focus ,

Measurement analysis and Knowledge Management , Human resource focus,
process management , business results

UNIT III BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARDS IN INDIA 7

Models in Business excellence: RBNQA CII EXIM Award, Tata BE Model etc

UNIT IV IMPLEMENTING BUSINESS EXCELLENCE MODEL 10

Basic concepts – Training -Report writing – Internal audit-Report submission – Initial

assessment -Site visit – Scoring – Criteria for Award, Award finalization

UNIT V CASE STUDY 8

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOK:

Mark Graham Brown, Baldrige Award Winning Quality, CRC press, 2008.

REFERENCES:

http://www.baldrige.nist.gov
http://www.baldrige21.com/
www.imc.org
http://www.quality.nist.gov/index.html
www.qimpro.com
www.imcrbnqa.com
www.efqm.org
www.juse.or.jp/e/deming/index.html

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224078 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT LTPC
3 0 0 3

UNIT I INTRODUCTION
9

The value of Knowledge – Knowledge Engineering Basics – Knowledge Economy –

The Task and Organizational Content – Knowledge Management – Knowledge
Management Ontology.

UNIT II KNOWLEDGE MODELS 9

Knowledge Model Components – Template Knowledge Models –Reflective

Knowledge Models– Knowledge Model Construction – Types of Knowledge Models.

UNIT III TECHNIQUES OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 9

Knowledge Elicitation Techniques – Modeling Communication Aspects – Knowledge

Management and Organizational Learning.

UNIT IV KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION 9

Case Studies – Designing Knowledge Systems – Knowledge Codification – Testing

and Deployment – Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Sharing – Knowledge
System Implementation.

UNIT V ADVANCED KM 9
Advanced Knowledge Modeling – Value Networks – Business Models for Knowledge
Economy – UML Notations – Project Management.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES

1. Guus Schreiber, Hans Akkermans, Anjo Anjewierden, Robert de Hoog, Nigel

Shadbolt, Walter Van de Velde and Bob Wielinga, “Knowledge Engineering and
Management”, Universities Press, 2004.
2. Elias M.Awad & Hassan M. Ghaziri, “Knowledge Management”, Pearson
Education, 2004.

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224079 SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING LTPC
3 00 3

UNIT I SYSTEMS SCIENCE CONCEPTS 10

System as a function of system-hood and thing-hood, Systems thinking, Evolution of
systems movement, Framework of deductive and inductive approaches, classification
systems models, Methodological paradigms, Laws of systems science, Organized
complexity, Systems simplification

UNIT II SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROCESSES 10

Life cycles-Phases-Steps, Formulation of Issues: Problem Identification – Scoping –
Bounding, Problem definition – Identification of needs, alterables, constraints; Value
System Design: Objectives and objective measures; Generation of Alternatives/
system synthesis – Identification of activities and activity measures; Functional
decomposition and analysis
Tools: Objectives hierarchies – trees, cross interaction matrix; Functional analysis
approaches – SADT, DFD, CFD, FFBD, ICOM, Node tree, Context diagram,
decomposition; BPR, QFD, Brain storming, Brain writing, Groupware, Delphi,
Morphological box

UNIT III ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES 10

Uncertain/ Imperfect information; Cross-impact analysis, Hierarchical inference,
logical reasoning inference; Structural modeling; System Dynamics;
Tools: Coupled uncoupled events – Baye’s model – event trees, Causal loop
diagram, probability trees; Structural models – Tree structures, reachability graph
and matrix, Causal loop diagrams, influence diagrams, decision trees; System
Dynamic Models – population models, urban dynamics, world dynamic models;
Economic models

UNIT IV INTERPRETATION OF ALTERNATIVES AND DECISION MAKING

10
Types of decisions – descriptive, prescriptive, normative; Decision assessment
efforts types – under certainty, probabilistic uncertainty, probabilistic imprecision,
information imperfection, conflict and cooperation; Prescriptive normative decision
assessments; Utility theory; Group decision making, Game Theory

UNIT V SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS 5

Organizational structures, SE management plan; Network based systems planning
and management methods; Cognitive factors in SE.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Introduction to Systems Engineering, Andrew P Sage and James E

Armstrong, Wiley Series (2000)
2. George J Klir, Facets of Systems Science, Kluwer Publishers, 2001

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224080 INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE LTPC
3003

UNIT I OPERATIONAL SAFETY 9

Hot metal operation, boiler, pressure vessels – heat treatment shop – gas furnace
operation – electroplating – hot bending pipes – safety in welding and cutting, Cold –
metal operation – safety in machine shop – cold bending and chamfering of pipes-
metal cutting – shot blasting, grinding, painting – power press and other machines.
Management of toxic gases and chemicals – industrial fires and prevention – road
safety – highway and urban safety – safety of sewage disposal and cleaning –
control of environmental pollution – managing emergencies in industries – planning
security and risk assessments, on – site and off site. Control of major industrial
hazards.

UNIT II SAFETY APPRAISA L AND ANALYSIS 9

Human side of safety – personal protective equipment – causes and cost of

accidents. Accidents prevention program – specific hazard control strategies –
HAZOP training and development of employees – first aid – fire fight devices –
accident reporting, investigation. Measurement of safety performance, accident
reporting and investigation – plant safety inspection, job safety analysis – safety
permit procedures. Product safety – plant safety rules and procedures – safety
sampling – safety inventory systems. Determining the cost effectiveness of safety
measurement.

UNIT III OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 9

Concept and spectrum of health functional units and activities of operational health
service – occupational and related disease – levels of prevention of diseases –
notifiable occupational diseases Toxicology Lead – Nickel, chromium and
manganese toxicity – gas poisoning (such as CO, Ammonia Chlorise, So2, H2s.)
their effects and prevention – effects of ultra violet radiation and infrared radiation on
human system.

UNIT IV SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS 9

Safety and health standards – industrial hygiene – occupational diseases prevention

welfare facilities. The object of factories act 1948 with special reference to safety
provisions, model rules 123a, history of legislations related to safety – pressure
vessel act – Indian boiler act – the environmental protection act – electricity act –
explosive act.

UNIT V SAFETY MANAGEMENT 9

Evaluation of modern safety concepts – safety management functions – safety

organization, safety department- safety committee, safety audit – performance
measurements and motivation – employee participation in safety - safety and
productivity.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

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TEXT BOOKS:

1. John.V .Grimaldi and Rollin. H Simonds, “Safety Managenent”, All India traveler
book seller, New Delhi – 1989.

2. Krishnan N.V, “Safety in Industry”, Jaico Publisher House, 1996.

REFERENCES:

1. Occupational Safety Manual BHEL.

2. Industrial Safety and the law by P.M.C Nair Publishers, Trivandrum.
3. Managing emergencies in industries, loss prevention of India Ltd.,
proceedings, 1999.
4. Safety security and Risk management by U.K singh & J.M Dewam,. A.P.H.
publishing company, New Delhi, 1996.
5. singh, U.K and Dewan, J.M., “Sagety, Security And Risk Management”, APH
publishinf company, New Delhi, 1996.
6. John V Grimaldi, Safety Manageemnt. AITB publishers, 2003.
7. Safety MaNUAL. EDEL engineering Consultancy, 2000.

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224081 LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT LTPC
3 00 3

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT 5

Logistics Management: Definition of logistics and the concepts of logistics. Logistics

Activities: Functions of the logistics system – transportation, warehousing, order
processing, information handling and procurement

UNIT II DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT 10

Distribution Management, Outbound logistics, Facility location, Classical location

problems, Strategic planning models for location analysis, location models, multi
objective analysis of location models.

UNIT III TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT 10

Transportation alternatives and technologies; transportation performance analysis;

total transportation cost analysis; fleet development and management; fleet
performance indicators; routing and scheduling; shipment planning; vehicle loading;
transportation management and information systems requirements.

UNIT IV LOGISTICS MODELLING 10

Logistics Customer Service, Modeling logistics systems, Simulation of logistic

systems, cost effective distribution strategies, Value of information in logistics, E-
logistics, risk pooling effect, International and global issues in logistics, Integrated
functional activities in logistics, Role of government in international logistics and
Principal characteristics of logistics in various countries and regions

UNIT V LOGISTICS IN DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES 10

Logistics in different industries: Third party, and fourth party logistics, Reverse
logistics,Airline Schedule Planning, Railway Networks, Postal services, the maritime
industries, health care industry and other service industries

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES:

1. David Bloomberg, Stephen LeMay, Joe Hanna: Logistics, Prentice Hall

2002
2. Thomas Teufel, Jurgen Rohricht, Peter Willems: SAP Processes: Logistics,
Addison-Wesley, 2002.
3. Julien Bramel, David Simchi-Levi. “The logic of logistics: theory,
algorithms, and applications for logistics management", Springer,2006
4. Murphy, G.J. "Transport and Distribution", 2nd Edition, Business Books
5. Ballou, R.H., Business Logistics Management/Supply Chain, 5th edition,
2004, Prentice-Hall

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224082 PROJECT MANAGEMENT LTPC
3 003

UNIT I STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT SELECTION 9

Project selection models, Project portfolio process, Analysis under uncertainty,

Project organization, Matrix organization

UNIT II PROJECT PLANNING 9

Work breakdown structure, Systems integration, Interface coordination, Project life

cycle, Conflict and negotiation,

UNIT III PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION 12

Estimating Project Budgets, Process of cost estimation, Scheduling: Network

Techniques PERT and CPM, Risk analysis using simulation, CPM- crashing a
project, Resource loading, leveling, and allocation

UNIT IV MONITORING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 9

Information needs and the reporting process, computerized PMIS, Earned value
analysis, Planning-Monitoring-Controlling cycle, Project control: types of control
processes, design of control systems, control of change and scope

UNIT V PROJECT AUDITING 6

Construction and use of audit report, Project audit life cycle, Essentials of audit and
evaluation, Varieties of project termination, the termination process, The Final Report
– A project history

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES:

1. Project Management – A Managerial Approach, by Jack R. Meredith, and Samuel

J. Mantel Jr., John Wiley and Sons, 2006
2. Project Management – A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and
Controlling, by Harold Kerzner, John Wiley and Sons, 2006

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224083 SERVICES OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT LTPC
3 00 3

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO SERVICES 6

Manufacturing and Services, Definition of Service, Characteristic of Service, Nature

of Services, Importance of Activity, Impact of technology

UNIT II GLOBALIZATION AND STRATEGY 7

Types of Globalized Services, Outsourcing, issues in Globalization, Service
strategies

UNIT III OPERATIONS ISSUES 12

Forecasting, Inventory, capacity Planning, Scheduling

UNIT IV SERVICE QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY 10

Importance of Quality, Models for Service Quality, GAPS model, issues in
productivity measurement, Work measurement

UNIT V TOOLS FOR SERVICES 10

Data Envelopment Analysis, Queuing models, Vehicle Routing models

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Fitzsimmons, J.A. and Fitzsimmons, M.J. Service Management, Tata Mc

Graw Hill India, 2006.
2. Haksever C, Render B, Russell RA and Murdick RG ,Service Management
and Operations, Prentice Hall International, USA, 2000

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224084 INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY LTPC
3 003

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 8
Definition-development-scope-objectives-importance of individual behavior-causes-
Role of learning in shaping behavior- the influence of thinking and perception.

UNIT II GROUP BEHAVIOR 12

Group Behavior-Groups- Contributing factors- Group Norms, Communication-
Process-Barriers to communication-Effective communication, leadership-formal and
informal characteristics-Managerial grid-Leadership styles-group Decision making-
Leadership Role in Group Decision, Group Conflicts-Types-Causes-Conflict
Resolution-Intergroup relations and conflicts –Organization centralization and
decentralization-formal and informal- organizational structures- organizational
change and development- change process-resistance to change-culture and ethics

UNIT III MOTIVATION 9

Motivation and motivators-The hierarchy of needs theory-the motivation-hygiene
approach to motivation-Expectancy-equity-reinforcement-McClelland’s needs theory
of motivation-special motivational techniques-job enrichment- a systems and
contingency approach to motivation.

UNIT IV TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 9

Training & Development: Training – Need and Importance – Steps in Training

Programme – Evaluation of Training Programmes – Concept of Management
Development Programme – Techniques of Training and Development – Group
Discussion- Conferences and Seminar – Case Studies – Role Playing – Business
Games – Sensitivity Training – Stages of Career Development.

UNIT V INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE 7

Definition-concept-Nature-Effects-causes-Elimination- Safety management practices-
Effect of environment-Hazard control Technology-Working conditions-environmental
conditions
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES:
1. Herald Knottz and Heinz Weihrich, ‘Essentials of management’; Mcgraw Hill
Publishing Company, Singapore International Edition, 1980.
2. Ties, AF stoner, and R.Edward Freeman, ‘Management’, PHI Pvt ltd, New
Delhi, 1992.
3. Joseph J, Massie, ‘Essentials of Management’, PHI, Ltd, 1985.
4. Nicky Hayes, Foundations of Psychology and Introductory Text, Routledge,
UK, 1994.

224085 MULTI VARIATE DATA ANALYSIS LT P C

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 3 0 0 3

UNIT I REGRESSION 9

Simple Regression, and Correlation – estimation using the regression line,

correlation analysis, Multiple Regression and Correlation analysis – finding the
multiple regression equation, modeling techniques, making inferences about
population parameters

UNIT II MULTIVARIATE METHODS 9

An overview of multivariate methods, Multivariate normal distribution, Eigen values

and Eigen vectors

UNIT III FACTOR ANALYSIS 9

Principal components analysis – objectives, estimation of principal components,

testing for independence of variables, Factor analysis model – factor analysis
equations and solution

UNIT IV DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS 9

Discriminant analysis – discrimination for two multi variate normal populations

UNIT V CLUSTER ANALYSIS 9

Cluster analysis – clustering methods, Multivariate analysis of variance

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES

1. Dallas E Johnson, Applied multi variate methods for data analysis, Duxbury
Press (1998)
2. Richard I Levin, Statistics for Management, PHI (2000)

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224086 TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT LTPC
300 3

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9

Technology management - Scope, components, and overview. Technology and

environment, Technology and society, Technology Impact analysis, environmental,
social, legal, political aspects, techniques for analysis - steps involved. Technology
policy strategy: Science and technology Policy of India, implications to industry, The
dynamics of technology change

UNIT II TECHNOLOGY FORECASTING 9

Need, methodology and methods - trend Analysis, Analogy, Delphi, Soft System
Methodology, Mathematical Models, Simulation, and System Dynamics.

UNIT III TECHNOLOGY CHOICE AND EVALUATION 9

Issues in the development new high tech products, Methods of analyzing alternate
technologies, Techno-economic feasibility studies, Need for multi-criteria
considerations such as, social, environmental, and political, Analytic hierarchy
method, Fuzzy multi-criteria decision making, and other methods.

UNIT IV TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND ACQUISITION 9

Import regulations, Implications of agreements like Uruguay Round and WTO,

Bargaining process, Transfer option, MOU- Technology Adoption and Productivity -
Adopting technology-human interactions, Organisational redesign and re-
engineering, Technology productivity.

UNIT V TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AND INNOVATION 9

Present status in India, Need for new outlook, Absorption strategies for acquired
technology, creating new/improved technologies, Innovations, Technology
Measurement- Technology Audit, Risk and exposure, R&D portfolio management

TOTAL:45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:
1. Joseph M. Putti, Management – A Functional Approach, McGraw Hill, 1997
2. Kenneth C. Lauden , MIS: Organisation and Technology, Prentice Hall, 1995
3. James A.Senn, Information technology in Business, Prentice Hall, 1995
4. Ronald J. Jordan, Security analysis and Portfolio Management, Prentice Hall, 1995
5 . Irvin M. Rubin, Organisational behavior an experimental approach, Prentice
Hall, 1995
6.Gerard H. Gaynor, Handbook of Technology Management, McGraw-Hill
Professional, 1996
7. Richard C. Dorf, Technology Management Handbook, CRC, 1999

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224087 DATA ANALYSIS L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9

Modern data analytic tools, Stastical concepts: Sampling distributions, resampling,

statistical inference, prediction error

UNIT II LINEAR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 9

Regression modeling, Multivariate analysis, Bayesian modeling, inference and

Bayesian networks, Support vector and kernel methods, Analysis of time series:
linear systems analysis, nonlinear dynamics

UNIT III RULE INDUCTION 9

Rule induction: rule learning as search, learning first order rules, evaluating quality of
rules, ILP systems at work

UNIT IV TOOLS FOR DATA MODELLING 9

Neural networks: learning and generalization, competitive learning, principal

component analysis and neural networks; Fuzzy logic: extracting fuzzy models from
data, fuzzy decision trees, Stochastic search methods

UNIT V VISUALIZATION-INTERACTION 9

Visualization: Visual data analysis techniques, interaction techniques; Systems and

applications: Diversity of IDA applications

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Michael Berthold, David J. Hand, Intelligent Data Analysis, Springer (2007)

2. Glenn J. Myatt, Making Sense of Data, John Wiley & Sons (2007)

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224088 SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN LTPC
300 3

UNIT I SYSTEMS ANALYSIS FUNDAMENTALS 9

Information systems analysis overview,Classification of information systems,

Systems development life cycle, Role of systems analyst, and Role of case tools

UNIT II INFORMATION REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS 9

Sampling and investigating hard data, Interviewing, Using Questionnaires,
Developing prototype, System requirements specification, Feasibility analysis

UNIT III THE ANALYSIS PROCESS 9

Data flow diagrams, Data dictionary, Process specifications, Presenting the systems
proposal

UNIT IV THE ESSENTIALS OF DESIGN 9

Designing effective output, designing the database, designing the user interface,
Designing data entry procedures

UNIT V SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND IMPLEMENTATION 9

Quality assurance through software engineering, Implementation approaches,

Implementing distributed systems, Object oriented systems analysis and design

REFERENCES:

1. Analysis and Design of Information systems, Arthur M. Langer, Springer

2001
2. Systems Analysis and Design, Kendall and Kendall, Prentice hall, 2004
3. Analysis and Design of Information systems, V. Rajaraman, PHI, 2006

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224089 DESIGN OF CELLULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS LTPC
3 003

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 5

Introduction to Group Technology, limitations of traditional manufacturing systems,

characteristics and design of groups, benefits of GT and issues in GT.

UNIT II CMS PLANNING AND DESIGN 12

Problems in GT/CMS - Design of CMS – Production Flow Analysis, Optimization

Models, traditional approaches and non-traditional approaches- Simulated
Annealing,Genetic Algorithms,

UNIT III IMPLEMENTATION OF GT/CMS 10

Inter and intra cell layout and capacity planning. Managerial structure and groups,
batch sequencing and sizing, life cycle issues in GT/CMS. Linkages to JIT systems

UNIT IV PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL 10

Measuring CMS performance - Parametric analysis - PBC in GT/CMS, cell loading,

GT and MRP - framework.

UNIT V ECONOMIC OF GT/CMS 8

Conventional Vs group use of computer models in GT/CMS, Human aspects of

GT/CMS - cases.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. Burbidge, J.L, Group Technology in Engineering Industry, Mechanical

Engineering pub. London, 1979.
2. Askin, R.G and Vakharia, A.J., GT planning and operation, in "The automated
factory - Hand book: Technology and Management", Cleland, D.I and Bidananda,
B (Eds), TAB Books, NY, 1991.
3. Irani, S.A, Cellular Manufacturing Systems - Hand book
4. Kamrani, A.K,, Parsaei, H.R and Liles, D.H. (Eds), Planning, design and analysis
of cellular manufacturing systems, Elsevier, 1995.
5. Askin, R.G., and Strandridge, C.R., Modelling and Analysis of Manufacturing
Systems, John Wiley and Sons. 1993.
6. Askin, R. G. and J. B. Goldberg, Design and Operation of Lean Production
Systems, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002.

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