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Post-graduate diploma in industrial engineering

SYLLABUS

Post-graduate diploma in industrial engineering

September 2013

National Institute of industrial engineering (NITIE), Mumbai 400 087

SYLLABI CORE COURSES

MODULE I

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGAND PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To provide an exposure to the fundamental tools and techniques in Industrial Engineering for integration & improvement of interrelated work activities.

Contents

Productivity concepts, Work study as a productivity improvement tool - methods engineering, work measurement, standard output, time study, work sampling, process analysis, principles of layout and facilities planning: material handling systems, fundamental concepts and applications of value engineering.

Text Books

ILO, Introduction to Work Study, George Kanawaty (Ed), 4th RevisedEdition, Universal Book Corporation 2007.

Chase RB Jacobs Fr, Aquilano NJ and Agarwal NK, Operations Management, Tata McGraw Hill, Eleventh Edition, 2008.

Tutty Herald G, Compendium on Value Engineering, Indo-American society, 1983.

Maynards Industrial Engineering handbook, 4th Edition, William K. Hodson (Editor), McGraw-Hill, 1992

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To enable students to understand individual and group behaviour in the organization; and to familiarize them with the role of human resource management for managing organizations.

Contents

Organisational Behaviour:Foundations of Organisational Behaviour, Dimensions of Personality, Perceptual Process, Theories of Motivation, Job Design and Work Motivation, Interpersonal Dynamics, Leadership Styles, Theories of Leadership, Group Dynamics, Process of Team Building, Problem Solving & Decision making, Organisational Conflicts and their Management, Organisational Culture and Climate.

Human Resource Management:Historical Development of HRM, Role and functions of HRM, Human Resource Strategy and its linkage with business strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Performance Appraisal, Training & Development, Compensation & Reward Systems, Career Planning, Creating a culture of high performance in organizations.

Text Books

Robbins, S. P., Judge, T. A., & Vohra, N.: Organizational Behavior, 15th Edition, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2013.

Dessler, G. & Varkey, B.: Human Resource Management, 11th Edition, Pearson Education, Prentice-Hall India, 2009.

Reference Books

Luthans, F.: Organizational Behavior, 12th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2013.

Pareek, U.: Understanding Organizational Behaviour, 2nd Edition, OUP, 2007.

Gomez-Mejia, L., Balkin, D., & Cardy, R.: Managing Human Resources, 7th Edition, Pearson, 2012.

Ivancevich, J. M. Human Resource Management, 10th Edition, McGrawHill, 2007.

MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING

Objectives

This course is designed with the following objectives: (i) Help the participants to become intelligent users of accounting information, (ii) Make the participants comfortable looking through an annual report, and (iii) Develop the ability in participants to use cost information for decision making.

Contents

Part I Financial Accounting:

Introduction and Balance Sheet - Income Statement An Introduction - Income Statement- Merchandising firms - Balance Sheet and Income Statement - Cash Flow Statement - Revenue Recognition - Accounting for Inventory - Accounting for Depreciation - Accounting For Liabilities And Owners Equity - Understanding And Analysis Of Financial Statements

Part II Management Accounting:

Introduction and Cost Management Concepts Cost Concepts Cost Sheet - Absorption Costing vs Variable Costing Income under absorption costing and Variable Costing - Product Costing - -Costing for Decision making - Cost Analysis for Decision Making-Break Even Analysis, Marginal Costing, Differential Costing, Relevant Costing, Pricing Decisions, Target costing, and Transfer Pricing - Strategic Cost Management - Activity Based Costing - Budgeting, Standard Costing and Variance Analysis.

Text Books

Robert N Anthony, David F Hawkins and Kenneth A Merchant: Accounting Text and Cases, AHM, 12th Edition.

NarayanaSwamy R., Financial Accounting: Managerial Perspective, Prentice Hall India, 4th Edition.

Hongren, Dattar and George Foster, Cost Accounting: Managerial Emphasis, Pearson Publishers, 9th Edition.

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To develop familiarity with the concepts of production systems their constraints, and their linkages with the overall business strategy; planning and control of operations; optimal utilization of resources and interfaces of operations management with other managerial areas

Contents

Operations Strategy and Role of Production/Operations Management, Concept of Production System and Services; Business Competitiveness; Modeling and Decision-making by Decision Tree Concepts; Forecasting Methodologies; Aggregate Production Planning: Chase Strategy & Linear Decision Rules; Resource Planning for Production and Operations: Materials, Manpower and Capacity, Computer Applications in Planning for Operations; Job Scheduling: Job Shop, Flow Shop, Optimal & Heuristics Methods: Project scheduling, Location and Layout Decision: Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing; Maintenance and Other Services in Manufacturing; Case studies

Text Books

Martenich, J.B., Production and Operations Management: An Applied Modern Approach, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1999.

Nahmias, S., Production and Operations Analysis, Irwin-McGraw Hill International, 1997.

Russell, R.S., and Taylor III, B.W., Operations Management: Multimedia version, Prentice Hall International, Inc., 2000.

Heizer, J., Render, B., and Rajashekhar, J. (2009), Operations Management, Pearson India Ltd.

STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To introduce the students to applications of statistical tools and methods essential for problem solving and effective decision-making, and applicability & limitations of statistical procedure in problem solving and decision making.

Contents

Introduction to Business Statistics, Applications of Probability, Random, Variables Probability Distributions, Sampling Distributions, Sampling Techniques, Estimation, Testing of Hypothesis, Correlation Analysis, Regression Analysis, Analysis of Variance, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Design of Experiments, Quality Control Charts and Six Sigma Concepts. Use of Statistical Packages such as, Excel Templates, MINITAB and SPSS.

Text Books

1. Levin R. I. & Rubin D.S. Statistics for Management 6th Edition PHI 1994

2. Bhattacharya G.K. & Johnson R.A. Statistical Concepts & Methods, John Wiley NEW YORK 1997

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

Objectives

To present the evaluation on present communication style of student and to enable students to decide their course of action for self-improvement.

Contents

Nature and Scope of Communication, Analyzing Communication, Intercultural dimensions, Denotative and Connotative meanings; Effective Listening; Oral Communication: Dealing in dyadic relations, Communication in small groups and large group communication; Understanding specific communication needs in Interviews, Group Discussions, Team Presentations; Nonverbal Communication: Gesture Clusters, Dealing with Facial expressions, Kinesics, Postures, Haptics, Oculesics, Proxemics, Appearance, Paralanguage and Chronemics; Business Writing: Planning and Organizing, Effective Writing Style, Effective design and visual aids, effective business documents.

Text Books

Meenakshi, R. & Singh, P., Business Communication, 2nd Edn, Oxford Press India, 2012.

Riebel, J.P., How to Write Reports, Papers, Theses, Articles, Arco Publishing, New York, 1972.

Reference Books

Gamble, T.K. and Gamble, M., Communication Works, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002.

Bovee, C.L., Thill John, V., Chaturvedi, M., Business Communication Today, 9th Edn., Pearson Education, Delhi, 2009.

Campbell, M., Communication Skills for Project Managers, PHI, 2009.

MODULE II

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

Objectives

To assist the managers for arriving at suitable firm level decisions for desired business outcomes.

Contents

Introduction - problem of Scarcity; Demand and supply- market equilibrium; Consumer behavior-utility analysis-budget constraints-consumer equilibrium- elasticity of demand and supply; Demand estimation and forecasting techniques; Theory of production- short run and long run production function optimal input combination and producer equilibrium-efficiency concept- returns to scale; Theory of Costs- short run and long run costs- economies of scale and learning curve- breakeven analysis; Market structure and strategic behavior of firm- perfect competition- monopoly-monopolistic competition; Pricing practices; Regulatory issues.

Text Books

Dominick Salvatore, Managerial Economics, Principles & Worldwide Applications, 7th edition, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Thomas and Maurice, Managerial Economics, McGraw Hill, 2010.

Reference Books

Robert S Pindyck, Daniel L Rubinfield and Prem L Mehta, Microeconomics, 7th Edition, Pearson, 2009.

Mark Hirschey, Managerial Economics: An Integrative Approach, 2010.

Gupta G. S., Managerial Economics, McGraw Hill.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To acquaint the students with the financial management techniques such as financial analysis, valuation, capital budgeting, raising finance, and working capital management, where emphasis is laid on sound concepts and their managerial implications.

Contents

The Role of Financial Management - The Business, Tax, and Financial Environments Arbitrage and Financial Decision Making - Shareholder Value Maximization - Valuing Costs and Benefits- Interest Rates and Time Value of Money Annuity Perpetuity - Basic Valuation - 4.Estimation of Cash Flows Capital Budgeting - Capital Budgeting Under Uncertainty and Risk - 5.Capital Budgeting and valuation with leverage - Risk and Return Analysis - Long Term Financing & Optimal Capital Structure - Short Term Financial Planning and Working Capital Management

Text Books

Brealey, Myers, Allen & Mohanty, Principles of Corporate Finance, Tata McGraw Hill, 10th edn.

Lawrence J Gitman, Principles of Managerial Finance, 11th Edn, Pearson Education.

Beseley Brigham, Essentials of Managerial Finance, 14th Edn, Thomson-Southern Western.

OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Objectives

To provide exposure to Operations Research Tools and Techniques, and model real life problems as optimization problems.

Contents

Historical evolution of OR, Application of OR, Strengths and limitations of the OR tools/models, Formulation of real life problems as linear programming problems, Solution of LP by using Graphical method, Simplex Method and Dual Simplex Method; Duality Concepts; Sensitivity Analysis; Transportation and Transshipment Models and its applications; Assignment modeling and its applications; Queuing Theory and its application; Simulation Modeling and its applications; Decision Tree and its application.

Text Books

Taha HA, Operations Research: An Introduction, Prentice Hall of India.

Hillier FS and Liebermann GJ, Introduction to Operations Research, McGraw Hill.

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To develop an understanding of procurement and stores management to improve efficiency and design of storage systems.

Contents

Materials classification, codification, standardization & variety reduction. Operating cycle, inventory management, inventory turnover. Stores organization, material budget, storage systems and accounting. Material handling, spares management, Material requirement planning, Make or buy decisions. Purchasing development evaluation & rating, Supply base optimization, JIT procurement. Negotiations and legal aspects of contract & transportation, insurance, Import policy & procedures

TextBooks

Tony Arnold, J.R Introductions to Materials Management, Prentice Hall Inc., NJ 1998.

Dobbler, D.W., Burt, D.N.- Purchasing and Supply management, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1996.

England, W.B. and Landers, M.R. Purchasing & Materials Management, Richard D Irwin, Illinois, 1995.

Compton, H.K., - Supplies and Materials management, Macdonald and Evans, London, 1994.

Michiel R. Leenders, Harold E. Fearson, Anna E. Flynn & P. Fraser Johnson, Purchasing and Supply Management McGraw Hill Irwin, New Yark. 2001.

WORKSYTEM DESIGN I

Objective

To develop competence in techniques and procedures of methods engineering and work measurements in manufacturing processes.

Contents:

Productivity; operation analysis, methods engineering and work place design: selection, record, examine, develop, evaluate, define, install and maintain; work measurement; time study, qualified worker, concept of rating and standard performance, learning curve, allowances, standard time, work sampling , group timing techniques.

Text Books

Benjamin W Niebel and Andris Frievalds, Niebel's Methods, Standards, and Work Design, 12th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2008

Mundel M E and D L Danner, Motion and Time Study: Improving Productivity, 7th edition, Prentice Hall; 1998

ILO, 4th revised Edition, Introduction to Work Study, 1999 (Editor: G. Kanawaty), Universal Publishing Corporation, Mumbai

SIMULATION MODELING AND ANALYSIS

Objectives

To provide an introduction to perform simulation modeling and analysis using different tools and technique for optimization and productivity improvement.

Contents

Elements of simulation modeling, Monte Carlo Simulation, Pseudo Random Number Properties, Discrete events, analysis of waiting lines, model building using software, statistical analysis of outputs, comparison of alternatives,meta modeling and design of experiments.

Text Books

Law and Kelton, "Simulation Modeling and Analysis", Tata McGraw Banks, "Simulation modeling"

MODULE III

INDUSTRIAL ERGONOMICS

Objective

To equip students with ergonomic tools in designing of human centered industrial and business process.

Contents

Introduction to Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineering. Physical, cognitive and organizational ergonomics, Physiology of work, Biomechanics and Engineering Anthropometry, Human- Machine system, Machine and Tool design, Workplace and workstation design, Work design, Physical working environment, Office system and ergonomics, Ergonomics of Manufacturing, Consumer ergonomics. Ergonomics and quality of life.

Text books

Sanders MS and McCormick EJ., Human Factors in Engineering and design, McGraw Hill, New York, 1993

Tyyari F and Smith JL., Occupational Ergonomics: principles and Applications, Chapman and Hall Publication, Great Britain, 1997.

Reference books

Gross CM., The right FIT: The power of Ergonomics as a Competitive Strategy, Productivity Press, Oregon, 1996

Kroemer K, Kroemer H and Kroemer KE: Ergonomivs How to design work for ease and efficiency. Prentice Hall publication, 2000

Debkumar Chakraarti: Indian Anthropometric Dimensions for Ergonomic design practice, National Institute of Design, 1997

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To introduce the Quality ManagementConcepts, Strategies, Models and Methodologies etc. to the PGDIE students, for better understanding the subject scope in the areas and for effective decisions in the areas of Quality Improvement of a processes, products and services.

Contents

History and fundamentals of Quality Management, Quality Management Gurus, Quality planning and policies, Introduction to Total Quality Management (TQM), Basic quality control tools, Quality Engineering Concepts such as Process Capability Analysis, Statistical Process Control and Measurement System Analysis, Inspection and Sampling Plans, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Design of Experiment, Frameworks to improve Organizational performance: ISO 9000, various TQM Models and Quality Awards, Introduction to Six Sigma, Six Sigma DMAIC and DMADV Methodologies, concept of Lean Six Sigma, Road blocks for Quality Management implementation, Six Sigma and TQM Case studies discussions.

Text Books

Thomas Pyzdek, Six Sigma Hand Book, Tata McGraw-Hill, Latest Edition.

Creveling, C.M.; L. Slutsky & D.Autis. Jr., Design for Six Sigma, Pearson education.

Forrest W. Breyfogle, Implementing Six Sigma (Smarter solutions using Statistical methods), Wiley Interscience, Latest Edition.

Salman Taghizadegan, Essentials of Lean Six Sigma, Latest Edition.

G. Robin Henderson, Six Sigma Quality Improvement with Minitab, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Latest Edition.

BhatK.S., TotalQualityManagement:TextandCases, Latest Edition.

GeorgeS.&Weimerskirch A., TotalQualityManagement:StrategiesandTechniques, Latest Edition.

KanjiG.&Asher M., 100MethodsforTotalQualityManagement, Latest Edition.

KolarikW.J., CreatingQuality:ProcessDesignforResults, Latest Edition.

IT for Management

Objective To enable students understand how Information Technology is contributing

to the dynamic business environment.

Contents

IT Organization Structure, Systems Software Infrastructure, Principles of Software Design and Development, Management Information System, Relational Data Base Management System, Object Oriented Paradigm, Decision Support Systems, Executive Information Systems, e-Business, Business Intelligence: Data Warehousing, Data mining and Enterprise Applications: Latest trends in IT, CRM 2.0, ERP, Business process management, Enterprise 2.0, IT strategy in Action, Business Value of IT and IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture.

Textbooks

Efraim Turban, Linda Volonino, Gregory R. Wood, Information Technology for Management: Advancing Sustainable, Profitable Business Growth, 9th edition, 2013

Jerry N. Luftman, Managing the Information Technology Resource: Leadership in the Information Age by, Prentice Hall, 2004

Reference Books

Turban and Volonino, IT for Management: Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy 7th Ed., 2010.

M. D. S. Harris, D. Herron, S.Iwanicki, The Business Value of IT: Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance and Measuring Results,Auerbach Publications; 1 edition, 2008.

J. D. McKeen and H. Smith, IT Strategy in Action, Publisher: Pearson Higher Education, 2009

P. Weill and J. Ross, IT Governance, Harvard Business School Press, 2004

MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To introduce students to the role of marketing in an organization. It aims at covering concepts and principles of marketing as well as the new trends and developments in the field.

Contents

Marketing Concepts and tools, marketing process, Marketing Environment, Strategic Planning and Marketing Planning, Consumer Behavior and Understanding Indian Consumers, Buying Decision Process, Market Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning, Managing Products and Brands, Designing Pricing Strategies, Managing Marketing Channels, Managing Advertising and Sales Promotion, Contemporary Issues in Marketing

Text Books

Kotler P., Keller K.L, Koshy A. and Jha M., Marketing Management: A South Asian Perspective, 14th edn, Pearson Education, 2013.

Reference Books

Ramaswamy V.S. and Namakumari S., Marketing Management - Global Perspective Indian Context, 4th edn, Macmillan Publishers India Ltd, 2009.

Saxena Rajan, Marketing Management, 3rd edn, Tata McGraw Hill, 2005.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To understand the cross functional implications of managing supply chains. Developing an understanding of principles of improving efficiency parameters, design concepts of supply chain. Strategic positioning of SC in business and best practices in supply chain.

Contents

Overview of supply chain management and Indian industry practices. DRP, Sales and operations planning, capacity planning, forecasting and demand planning in supply chain. Supply chain risk inventory & transportation management. CPFR concept, SCOR model. Managing material flow in supply chain & warehousing operation, cross docking. Role of marketing, sales, R & D in supply chain. Various manufacturing systems like JIT, dispersed. Information system and supply chain metrics for performance monitoring. Outsourcing in Supply Chain & Supplier Relationship Management. Technologies in supply chain like RFID, barcodes, GPS etc.

TextBooks

Sunil Chopra, Peter Mendl "Supply Chain Management," Strategy Planning & Operations. Prentice hall, 2001.

J.T. Mentzer "Supply Chain Management " Response books, 2001.

San Diego, Manish Govil and Jean Marie Prop. "Supply Chain Design and Management : Strategic and Technical Perspectives," Academic Press.

Simchi Levi D., Kaminsky P. & Simchi Levi E., "Supply Chain Management," Boston Irwin McGraw Hill, 1977.

Joel D Wishner, G. Keong Leong, Keah Choon Tan. "Principles of Supply Chain ManagemenT", Thomson, New Yark, 2005.

Jan Stentoft Arlbjorn, Arni Halldorsson, Marionne, Jahre, Karen Spens & Gunnar Stefansson, "Nordic Case reader in Logistics & Supply Chain Management," University Press of Southern Denmark, 2009.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To present the concepts, techniques and tools for managing projects effectively in terms of time, quality and cost, and also to develop skills in techniques for planning, estimating, monitoring and controlling cost, schedules, risk and performance parameters.

Contents

Systems approach to project management, project feasibility studies, project appraisal, project selection, market and demand analysis, technical analysis, financial analysis, project cash flows, time value of money and cost of capital. Project organization, cost estimation and budgeting, resource planning, procurement and mobilizations, roles and responsibilities, and contract administration. Project scheduling, CPM and PERT techniques, project risk analysis and management, project crashing and scheduling with limited resources. Project monitoring and control and earned value analysis.

Text Books

Kerzner, H., Project Management Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling, 2001.

Meredith and Mantel, Project Management, 2001.

Wiest, J.D. and Levy, F.K., A Management Guide to PERT / CPM, 2001.

PMI, A Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge, 2000.

MODULE V

LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF BUSINESS

Objectives

To make students understand the various legal aspects of business along with Case Law, to sensitize students with ethical issues pertaining to business, and to equip them with ethical theories and philosophical interventions essential for ethical decision-making.

Contents

Legal Issues

Companies Act, Competition Laws, Contract Act, Special Contracts, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, Consumer Protection Act, Negotiable Instruments Act, Right To Information Act, Patent Act, Trade Mark Law, Copy Right Act, Geographical Indications, Trade Secrets, Domain names and other Intellectual Properties Act, Information Technology Act, Sale of Goods act, Arbitration.

Ethical Issues

Introduction to Business Ethics, Ethics and Morality, Basic Concepts, Ethical theories; Changing Business Environment and Ethical Challenges, Ethical Dilemmas and Ethical Decision Making, Managerial Dimensions and Constraints; Ethical Issues in Business and its several functional areas, Corporate Social Responsibility; Indian Ethos and Value Systems; Developing and Executing a comprehensive ethical programme.

Text Books

Bare Acts and Case Laws

Akileshwar Pathak, Legal Aspects of Business, McGraw Hill Education.

Nabhis Business and Commercial Laws, Latest Edition.

Fernando, A.C., Business Ethics: An Indian Perspective, New Delhi: Pearson, 2009.

Sekhar, R.C. and Sekhar, S.C., Ethical Choices in Business, New Delhi: Sage, 2002.

Reference Books

Bhatia S.K., Business Ethics, New Delhi: Deep and Deep Publications, 2002.

Valesquez, Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases, New Delhi: PHI, 2004.

Crane, A. and Matten, D., Business Ethics, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.

MODULE VI

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Objectives

To develop a business perspective of sustainable development and understand socio-environmental challenges of industry.

Contents

Principles of Sustainable Development (SD), Evolution of SD and its Business Context, Business-Environment-Society interdependence, Different Perspectives on SD, SD challenges for Global Economy and implications on Industry, Greening vs. Sustainability perspective for Industry, SD Framework for different Economies, Strategies for Sustainable World.

Text Books

Jeffry Sachs, Common Wealth, Penguin Books, 2008.

Fritij Capra and Gunter Pauli, Steering Business towards Sustainability, UN University Press, 2003.

Epstein, M., Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts, Greenleaf Publishing, UK, 2008.

Lester Brown, Eco-Economy, Orient Longman, 2008.

STREAM SPECIFIC ELECTIVE COURSES

STREAM 1: OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

FACILITIES PLANNING

Objectives

To develop competence to apply concepts, qualitative analysis and computer applications in dealing with the problems related to facilities location, layout and material handling system design of manufacturing.

Contents

Facilities Planning: Facilities Planning Methodology; Strategic Facilities Planning; Product, Process and Schedule Design; Flow, Space and Activity Relationships; Facilities Layout Planning including Computer-Aide Layout Planning; Material Handling System: Material Handling Principles; Material Handling Equipment Material Handling System Design, ASRS, AGV; Warehousing Facility: Warehouse Operations; Warehouse Layout planning; Storage and Retrieval Systems; Warehouse Management; Facilities Location: Facility Location Problems; Single Facility Minisum and Minimax Location Problem; Multi facility Location Problem; Facility location Allocation Problem; Covering Problem; Case studies

Text Books

Tompkins, White, Bozer, and Tancho, Facilities Planning, , John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Francis R. L., McGinnis L. F. and John A. White Facilities Layout and Location, , Prentice Hall of India, 1999

Sule D. R, Manufacturing Facilities, , CRC Press, 2008

MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND SERVICE OPERATIONS

Objectives

The course aims at introducing various manufacturing systems and service operations. It provides insights into details of manufacturing processes such as manufacturing, assembly etc. and also details of operations in various service functions.

Contents

Manufacturing Processes, Metal Removal Processes, Metal Forming Processes, Fabrication, Press Work, CNC Machines, Group Technology, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Assembly Lines.

Importance of the Service Sector, Strategic Positioning and Service Strategy, Service Operations and the Environment, Designing the Service Delivery System, Service System Design and Development, Managing Service Experiences, Services Decoupling, Improving the Service Operations, Process Analysis, Service Quality Management, Capacity Strategies, Yield Management, Application of Tools for Managing Services.

Text Books

Groover M.P., Automation Production Systems, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.

Todd Robert H., Allen Dell K., and Alting L., Manufacturing Processes Reference Guide. First Edition, Industrial Press Inc., 1994.

Bolz R.W., Production Processes, 5th Edition, Industrial Press Inc., 1977.

Bonetto Roger, Flexible Manufacturing Systems in Practice, North Oxford Academic, 1988.

Metters R., KingMetters K., Pullman M., and Walton S., Successful Service Operations Management, Thomson Southwestern, 2007.

Fitzsimmons J.A. and Fitzsimmons M.J., Service Management, McGraw Hill, 2006.

LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To provide understanding of the logistics function with reference to supply chain management. Developing parameters for efficiency improvement and basic understanding of designing logistic network.

Contents

Logistics overview, multiple channels of distribution & channel design, Multiechelon inventory system, Warehousing location, & operation with WMS. Primary and secondary transportation, unitizing, order management, Logistics costing. Logistics information systems, developing logistics metrics for efficiency improvement and storage systems and procedures. Transportation infrastructure in India.

Text Books

Ballou, R.H. "Basic business Logistics," Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1998.

Lambert, D M. Stock Jr. & Ellram, L M, "Fundamentals of Logistics Management," Irwing McGraw Hill, 1998.

David E. Mulcahy, Joachin Sydow, " A Supply Chain Logistics Program For Warehouse Management," CRC Press, New York, 2008.

J. J. Coyle, E J Barci, C J. Langley Jr. " The Management of Business Logistics," India, 2007.

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING

Objectives

Introduction to principles of System Dynamics modelling and its application to diverse practical problems. Exposure to techniques for systems modelling and developing skills for computer solutions. Develop an understanding of the significance of feedback and causality in the behaviour of social and industrial / organisational systems. The course will be useful for modelling social, technological, ecological, economic, and many other management systems.

Contents

Introduction to systems thinking and modelling, dynamics of systems, modelling process, fundamental modes of system behaviour, stocks and flows, hand simulation, causal loop diagrams, dynamics of simple structures, first-order and higher-order delays, non-linear systems, growth, diffusion and instability, cycles and oscillation, testing and validation of models.

Text Books

Sterman, John(2000), Business Dynamics: Systems thinking and modeling for a complex world, Irwin McGraw-Hlill.

Richardson, G. and Pugh, A. (1981), Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling, MIT Press.

Forrester, J.(1961), Industrial Dynamics, MIT Press.

MANUFACTURING SYSTEM DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To equip the students with various manufacturing and material handling systems.

Contents

Introduction to Manufacturing Systems ; Manufacturing Systems Types; Principles of Design; Serial Systems; Axiomatic Design; Taguchi's principles; Cells and GT; Rapid Prototyping; Industrial Automation ; GT & Cell Scheduling; Job shop scheduling; Material handling systems ; Mass Customization; Supply Chain Management ;Human Learning and Competence.

Text Books

Marco Garetti, Design and Management of Production Systems: Tutorials and Case Studies.

MANUFACTURING STRATEGY

Objectives

To understand the process of strategy development at corporate level, business unit level and function level and explore the strategic decisions in the functions of industrial engineering, manufacturing and supply chain.

Contents

Concept of strategic management, principles of competitive strategy, manufacturing/operations strategy and business strategy, the content and process of operations strategy, Strategic decisions in manufacturing Process choice, manufacturing infrastructure development, focused manufacturing, capacity strategy, supply network strategy, process technology strategy; manufacturing strategy in a factory and in an international network of factories.

Text Books

Terry Hill, Manufacturing Strategy: Text and Cases, Macmillan Business, 1995

John Miltenburg Manufacturing Strategy: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan, Second Edition, Productivity Press, 2005

Nigel Slack, Slack Nigel, Operations Strategy Pearson, 2008

S. Brown et al., Strategic Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage, Transforming Operations from Shop Floor to Strategy, Prentice Hall, 2000.

STRATEGIC NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Objective

To expound the strategic considerations and developmental processes in the introduction of new /modified products to the customer and society.

Contents

Introduction to innovation , innovation management , product innovation management , management risk and fears of innovation , why some new products fail while others succeeded, the innovation process model, paths to new product development or acquisition , product design and company performance, corporate charter, goals, commitment & support new product development, contribution of top management in product innovation, the design process & the development strategy, need confrontation and user observation, surveillance of technology, competitor & resources, developing a project brief , developing creative skills , sustaining competitive product design activities , impact of organizational structure on product management , management of new product development projects , project presentations.

Text Books

Wheelwright , S.C. and Clark K.B., Revolutionizing product development , The Free Press.

REVERSE ENGINEERING AND RAPID PROTOTYPING

Objectives

To understand the importance of prototyping in product development and technological solutions enabling the prototyping for compressing the product development lead time.

Contents

Traditional Prototyping Vs. Rapid Prototyping (RP). Need for time compression in product development, CAD/CAM Exchange formats, data formats and software for RP, classification of RP systems - liquid based, solid based, powder based, Different RP systems - Stereo lithography, Fused Deposition Modelling, Selective Laser Sintering, Laminated Object Manufacturing, 3D Printing and Ballistic Particle Modelling, Process Planning for Rapid Prototyping, RP manufacturing issues like slicing, accuracy, finish, orientation, conventional Tooling Vs. Rapid Tooling, concept of hybrid tooling, Reverse Engineering - Methodologies and techniques - Hardware and software, Reverse Engineering and Integration of Reverse Engineering and RP. Hands on - Converting CAD models into STL files, Simulation of RP Process Parameters using Software and fabrication of CAD Model using RP Machine

Text Books

Chua Chee Kai, Leong Kah Fai, Chu Sing Lim, Rapid Prototyping: Principles and Applications in Manufacturing, World Scientific, 2010.

Ian Gibson, David W Rosen, Brent Stucker, Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing, Springer, 2010.

Rafiq Noorani,Rapid Prototyping: Principles and Applications in Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.

Vinesh Raja, Kiran J Fernandes, Reverse Engineering Industrial Perspectives, Springer, 2008.

Chua Chee kai, Leong Kah Fai, Rapid Prototyping: Principles and Applications in Manufacturing, World Scientific, 2003.

Pham, D.T, Dimov, S.S, Rapid Manufacturing, Springer, 2001.

GLOBAL AND COLLABORATIVE MANUFACTURING

Objectives

To learn the concept of extended manufacturing in the global environment.

Contents

Globalization and manufacturing paradigms, customized, personalized and reconfigurable products, mass customization, business model for global manufacturing enterprises, IT based enterprise organization structure, enterprise globalization strategies, collaborative product development in manufacturing enterprise, framework for distributed and collaborative manufacturing, control and coordination issues in manufacturing networks, Wise shop floor - portal for collaborative manufacturing, manufacturing standards like STEP.

Text Books

Michael McClellan, Collaborative Manufacturing: Using Real-Time Information to Support the supply chain, St. Lucie Press/CRC press, 2003

Yoram Koren, The Global Manufacturing Revolution: Product-Process-Business Integration and reconfigurable systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Li W. D., Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications, Springer, 2007

Rob Dekkers, Dispersed Manufacturing Networks: Challenges for Research and Practice, Springer, 2009

LEAN MANUFACTURING

Objective

To learn the concepts of lean manufacturing along with the value stream mapping to identify and eliminate wastes from processes.

Content

Fundamentals of continuous improvement, value added and waste elimination, customer focused quality, small lot production, setup time reduction, maintaining and improving the equipment, pull production system, focused factories, cellular manufacturing, group technology, standard operations, quality at source, uniform flow, mixed model scheduling, Value Stream Mapping.

Text Books

Nicholas John, Lean Production for competitive advantage, - a comprehensive guide to lean methodologies and management practices, productivity press, 2011.

Askin R G and Goldberg J B, Design and Analysis of Lean Production Systems, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2003.

Page Julian, Implementing lean manufacturing techniques, Hanser Gardner Pubmications, 2004.

MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To discuss the role of maintenance management for competitive advantage, structuring the maintenance function; preventive, predictive and productive maintenance strategies and policies for managing operations, productivity, quality and growth.

Contents

Objective of Maintenance; Maintenance Policies; case studies on Assessment of reliability; Availability, Maintainability and Effectiveness of equipment; Quantitative aspects of maintenance; Various aspects of preventive, predictive, productive and Total Productive Maintenance(TPM); Replacement policies; Maintenance budgeting and cost control; Concept of World Class Maintenance to enable the organization make its products and services competitive in terms of price, quality, on time delivery and total customer support; Maintenance Audit; Computer aided maintenance management system ; Case studies on total productive Maintenance; Markov Model and Application of Markov Processes in Maintenance ; Maintenance Performance Indicators; Application of reliability theory in Maintenance.

Text Books

Nakijima S., TPM Development Programme: Implementing total Productive Maintenence, Productivity Press,Canbridge.

Terry W., Computerised Maintenance Management Systems, Industrial Press , New York.

Suzuki T., TPM in process industries , Productivity Press, Portland, Oregon

Lindley R.Higgins & R.Keith Mobley, Maintenance Engineering Handbook, McGraw Hill, 2002.

Charles E.Ebeling, An introduction to Reliability and Maintainability engineering, Tata McGraw Hill, 2000.

K Venkataraman, Maintenance Engineering and Management, Prentice Hall of India, 2007.

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM (FMS)

Objectives

To deal with design and operations of FMS for a wide range of product manufacturing

Contents

FMS planning, Flexibility issues, Flexibility assessment, Flexibility and productivity, Flexibility in pull and push type production ordering systems, FMS planning, FMS short term planning problems, Loading models in FMS, Production planning model for an FMS, FMS control, FMS planning and control, Models for performance evaluation and FMS configuration, Decision models for the design of a FMS, Working examples of FMS installations.

Text Books

William W Luggen, Flexible Manufacturing Cells and Systems, Prentice Hall Inc. New Jersey, 1991.

Reza A Maleki, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Prentice Hall Inc.. New Jersey, 1991.

John E Lenz, Flexible Manufacturing, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1989.

Mikell P Groover, Automation, Production Systems and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall Inc., New Delhi, 2007.

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING

Objectives

To provide an exposure of Information and communication Technology and application of computer for automation of manufacturing tasks.

Contents

Introduction to NC, CNC, DNC machine tools, Constructional features of NC Machine Tools, CNC Tooling and Fixturing, CNC Programming: Basic and Advanced, Computer Assisted Part Programming, System Drives and Devices, Interpolators: Software and Hardware, CNC Controller, Adaptive Control System, Machining Centre, Turning Centre, Communication Networks and Virtual NC Systems. Components of CIM, Data base For CIM, Planning, Scheduling and Analysis of CIM systems. Manufacturing Automation, Automation strategies, Automated Flow lines, Line Balancing, Automated Assembly systems, Automatic Material Handling and Storage systems, Automated Inspection systems, Group Technology, Cell Design, Cellular Manufacturing Systems, computer Aided Process Planning. CNC programming for turned and milled components and auto CNC programming using software.

Text Books

Yoram Koren, Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems, McGraw Hill International, Singapore, 2006

John Stenerson and Kelly Curran, Computer Numerical Control: Operation and Programming, PHI, New Delhi, 2009

TC Chang, RA Wysk and HP Wang, Computer Aided Manufacturing, PHI, New Delhi, 2009.

James V. Valentino and Joseph Goldenberg, Introduction to Computer Numerical Control, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliff, New Jersey, 2012.

Mikell P Groover, Automation, Production Systems and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall Inc., New Delhi, 2007.

Nanua Singh, System Approach to Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Wiley & Sons Inc., 1996.

Andrew Kusiak, Intelligent Manufacturing System, Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey, 1992.

TQM AND SIX SIGMA

Objectives

To introduce the TQM and Six SigmaConcepts, Strategies, Models and Methodologies etc. to the fellow student, for better understanding, the research scope in the areas and for effective research in the areas of TQM and Six Sigma.

Contents

History and fundamentals of Quality Management, Quality Management Gurus, Quality planning and policies, Introduction to Total Quality Management (TQM), Basic quality control tools, Statistical Process Control and control charts, Measurement System Analysis, Inspection and Sampling Plans, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Design of Experiment, Frameworks to improve, Organizational performance: ISO 9000, various TQM Models and Quality Awards, Introduction to Six Sigma, Six Sigma DMAIC and DMADV Methodologies, Six Sigma and Lean Management, Road blocks for Quality Management implementation, Six Sigma and TQM Case studies discussions

Text Books

Six Sigma Hand book, By, Thomas Pyzdek; (Tata McGraw-Hill)

Design for Six Sigma, By, C.M.Creveling; .L.Slutsky & D.Autis.Jr; (Pearson education)

Implementing Six Sigma (Smarter solutions using Statistical methods), By, Forrest W.Breyfogle; (Wiley Interscience)

Essentials of Lean Six Sigma, By, Salman Taghizadegan

Six Sigma Quality Improvement with Minitab, By, G. Robin Henderson; (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)

TotalQualityManagement:TextandCases, By. BhatKS

TotalQualityManagement:StrategiesandTechniques. B GeorgeS&Weimerskirch A

100MethodsforTotalQualityManagement, By KanjiG&AsherM

CreatingQuality:ProcessDesignforResults, By KolarikWJ

Kolarik WJ, Creating Quality; Concepts; Systems; Strategies and Tools; McGraw-Hill INC

Evans JR and Lindsay WM, The Management and Control of Quality; South Western (Adivision of Thamson Learning)

Logothetics N., Managing for Total Quality From Deming to Taguchi and SPC, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd. 1996.

FUZZY LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Objectives

The fuzzy logic has the capability of solving complex non-linear system using human intelligence and reasoning model. This course presents knowledge about fuzzy logic, fuzzy inference methods, fuzzy logic modelling tools and applications.

Contents

Introduction to fuzzy sets. Fuzzy sets and basic definitions. Extensions. Fuzzy measures and measures of fuzziness. The extension principle and applications. Fuzzy relations and fuzzy graphs. Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Sets and System Modelling, Fuzzy Relations, Fuzzy Equations, Membership Function in Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Rules, Fuzzy analysis. Fuzzy set theory. Decision making in fuzzy environments. Fuzzy set models in operations research. Empirical examining in fuzzy set theory. Applications with Matlab Fuzzy Toolbox.

Text books

Timothy J. Ross, Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications Wiley India, 2004.

Reference Books

Fuzzy Applications in Industrial Engineering,Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Volume, 201, Cengiz Kahraman (Ed.)2006.

Fuzzy Logic Foundations and Industrial Applications, International Series in Intelligent Technologies, Vol. 8, Ruan, Da (Ed.), 1996

Introduction to Fuzzy Logic using MATLAB, S. N. Sivanandam, S. Sumathi, S. N. Deepa, Springer, 2006

STREAM 2: OR AND QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES

ADVANCED OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Objectives

Improve the ability to rigorously prove mathematical statements. Cultivate an ability to analyze the structure of and mathematically model various complex systems occurring in industrial applications.

Contents

Integer programming, Dynamic programming, Goal Programming, Game Theory, Queuing theory, Decision Trees, Graph Theory, Network Programming, Facility Location, Inventory Problems, AHP.

Textbooks

Hillier FS and Liebermann GJ, Introduction to Operations Research, McGraw Hill, 2002.

Taha, H.A. (1982): Operations Research: An Introduction; MacMillan Publishing Company, New York.

Philips, D.T., Ravindran, A. and Solberg, J.: Operations Research, Principles and Practice.

Mckinsey, J.C.C. (1952): Introduction to the Theory of Games; McGraw Hill.

Hadley, G. and Whitin, T.M. (1963): Analysis of Inventory Systems; Prentice Hall.

The Analytic Hierarchy Process: Planning, Priority Setting, Resource Allocation

Thomas L. Saaty, Edition 2, McGraw-Hill, 1980

BUSINESS DECISION MODELS

Objectives

To provide an exposure to some mathematical models for business analysis.

Contents

Management Decision Scenario, Discrete time dynamic systems analysis, Linear difference equations, Z-transforms and solution methods, diffusion models, control actions, stability analysis, optimization methods, application in finance, production, marketing, Markov process and properties of discrete time Markov chains, Application in Marketing, human resources, etc.

Textbooks

Hoel PG, Port SC and Stone CJ, Introduction to stochastic processes. UBS Publication, New Delhi, 1990

Bartholomew D J, Stochastic Models for Social Processes, John Wiley, 1987.

Lewis FL and Syrmos, Optimal Control, John Wiley, 1994

Kelley W G & Peterson AC, Difference Equations, 2nd Edition, Hartcourt Academic Publishers, 2001.

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

Objectives

To provide exposure to complexity of optimization problems and exposure to solution techniques for large-scale optimization problems.

Course Contents

Column Generation Technique, Decomposition Method, Design and Analysis of algorithms; Introduction to P and NP classes, NP-Hard and NP-complete problems, Relaxation Techniques, Meta-heuristic; Tabu Search, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing

Textbooks

Leon S Lasdon, Optimization Theory for Large Systems, Dover Publication, 2011.

Papadimitriou C H and Steigtitz K, Combinatorial Optimization, Prentice Hall of India, 1997.

ESTIMATION THEORY AND FORECASTING

Objectives

To study estimation theory and forecasting techniques in details.

Course Contents

Traditional forecasting methods, Moving average and its design, Fourier Series method, ARMA Models, Basic theory and properties, Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions, Estimation of ARMA parameters, Forecasting with ARMA, Testing of Hypotheses on model parameters, Spectral Analysis, Estimation methods-Kalman Filter and application, Maximum Likelihood and least square method, Regression methods, Stochastic differential equation models-solution method, estimation of parameters and model fitting.

Textbooks

Hoel PG, Port SC and Stone CJ, Introduction to stochastic processes. UBS Publication, New Delhi, 1992

Hoel PG, Port SC and Stone CJ, Introduction to statistics. UBS Publication, New Delhi, 1994

Johnson L and Wichern R., Introduction to multivariate statistical Analysis, prentice Hall of India, 1994.

Nahi E., Estimation theory and application, John Wiley, 1969.

MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS

Objectives

The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the basic ideas, applicability, and methods of multivariate data analysis.

Contents

Overview of Multivariate Analysis along with classification; Research Applications of: Multiple Regressions, Logistic regression, Discriminate Analysis, Conjoint Analysis, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA), Factor Analysis(EFA & CFA), Cluster Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).

Experimental Research Tools: Research Applications of Traditional designs, Taguchi Designs, Response Surface Designs and Mixture Designs.

The Application Software used during above course: SPSS, AMOS, Minitab.

Text Books

Hair, Joseph F., Jr., Rolph E. Anderson, Ronald L. Tatham, and William C. Black. 1998. Multivariate Data Analysis, 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Manly, Bryan F. J. 1998. Multivariate Statistical Methods A Primer, 2nd edition. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis by Johnson and Wichern

Design and Analysis of Experiments by Douglas C. Montgomery

NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION

Objectives:

To provides mathematically rigorous motivation and develop the ability to model the real life problems as nonlinear optimization.To develop the ability to model, apply techniques and optimization software to solve numerous problems in engineering and other disciplines.

Course Content:

Introduction to NLP, convexity, Basic NLP algorithm, unconstrained optimization: Newton's method, line search and trust region methods, steepest descent and its convergence and convergence rate, quasi-Newton and conjugate gradient methods, Some exposure to optimization software (Spreadsheet, AMPL & GAMS),Constrained problems-necessary and sufficient conditions, Saddle points and duality, Lagrangian relaxation, Reduced gradient methods, Penalty and Barrier methods, Global optimization, Nonlinear optimization application areas, including gasoline blending, electric power, financial asset allocation and water resources models.

Textbooks

Bertsekas, Dimitri P. Nonlinear Programming. 2nd ed. Athena Scientific Press, 1999.

Bazaraa, Mokhtar S., Hanif D. Sherali, and C. M. Shetty. Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithms. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993.

S. G. Nash and A. Sofer, Linear and Nonlinear Programming, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., New York, 1996.

A.J. Conejo, E. Castillo, R. Minguez, R. Garcia-Bertrand, Decomposition Techniques in Mathematical Programming Engineering and Science Applications, Springer, Berlin, 2006.

AMPL: AModelling language for mathematical programming, Robert Fourer, David M. Gay, Brian W. Kernighan Edition2, Thomson/Brooks/Cole, 2003

GAMS: release 2.25 : a user's guide, The Scientific press series, Anthony Brooke, David Kendrick, Alexander Meeraus, Scientific Press, 1992

STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

Objectives

To provide introductory exposure to stochastic models and stochastic techniques.

Contents

Stochastic Process, Wide and strict sense stationarity, Discrete Time Markov Chains, Classification of States, Transients and Recurrences, Irreducibility, Periodicity, Ergodicity, Long run Properties, Chapman Kolmogorov equations, Time reversibility, Poisson Process, Non-homogenous and compound Poisson Processes, Continuous Time Markov Chains, C K equation, Transient and Steady state solution, Birth-death processes, Branching processes, time reversibility and uniformization; Queuing theory, Queuing network, Distribution of N(t), Limit theorem and application, Renewal reward processes, regenerative process, semi-Markov process, Wiener process, Gaussian Process, Martingales Process: Definition, Convergence, Sub and super martingales, reversibility and applications.

Textbooks

S. Ross, Applied Probability Models, Academic Press, 1995.

R. Wolff, Stochastic Modelling and Theory of Queues, Prentice Hall, 1992.

S. Ross, Stochastic Processes, Academic Press, 1995.

S. Ross, Probability Models with Optimization, John Wiley, 1986.

Hoel PG, Port SC and Stone CJ, Introduction to stochastic processes. UBS Publication, New Delhi, 1992

MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION

Objectives

Provide an introduction to the concepts behind multi-objective optimization. To develop the ability to model the real life problems with more than one objective.To develop the ability to use the techniques and optimization tools for solving problems in engineering and other disciplines.

Contents

Introduction to Multi-objective Optimization, Decision Space and objective (Criterion) Space, Notions of Optimality, Ordering and Cones, Pareto optimal and efficient points, Weak and Strict Optimal Points, Properly Pareto Optimal/efficient Points, Weighted Sum Scalarization, Bound on efficient set, The -Constraint Method, Bensons Method, Compromise Solutions, Simplex Algorithm to solve MOO, Evolutionary Algorithm to solve MOO, Other multi-objective type models to solve problems with competing objectives, Some exposure to optimization software (AMPL, MATLAB), Application to real life engineering problems.

Text Books:

"Multiple Criteria Optimization: Theory, Computation, and Application," Ralph E. Steuer, John Wiley & Sons, 1986.

"Multiobjective Programming and Planning," Jared L. Cohon, Academic Press, 1978,

Multi-objective ptimization, Tim Marler, VDM Publishing, 2009

Multi-Objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms, Wiley-interscience series in systems and optimization, Kalyanmoy Deb, Wiley, 2009

AMPL: a modeling language for mathematical programming, Robert Fourer, David M. Gay, Brian W. Kernighan, Edition 2, Thomson/Brooks/Cole, 2003

STREAM 3: ERGONOMICS, HUMAN FACTORS

WORK SYSTEM DESIGN-II

Objectives

To develop competence in techniques and procedures of methods engineering and work measurements in manufacturing processes

Contents

Synthetic time standards: predetermine motion time systems, standard data and time formula, set up time reduction, learning curve, business process analysis and mapping, value stream mapping, indirect labor standards and compensation administration.

TextBooks

Benjamin W Niebel and Andris Frievalds, Niebel's Methods, Standards, and Work Design ,12th Ed., McGraw-Hill,2008

George H Bodnar and William S Hopwood, Accounting Information System, Prentice Hall International , 1998

SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To provide an understanding of various efficient measures to manage Safety, Health and Environmental problems in industries.

Contents

Health and safety issues in industry, Industrial health and hygiene, Safety Management Process, behavioral aspects of safety management, accident investigation, prevention and control, emergency response and planning, Factories Act, OHSAS 18000 and safety audit system

Introduction to sustainable development and Global environmental issues, Climate change and carbon trading, Waste Minimization and cleaner Production, Environmental legislation in India, Environmental Audits and guidelines, Life cycle assessment [ LCA] and Environmental Performance evaluation, Air quality Management and Waste water Management , ISO 14001 and Environmental Management,

Text Books

Hammer W and P. Dennis, Occupational Safety Management and Engineering , Prentice Hall, 2001 edition

National Safety Council, Accident Prevention manual, Vol .1 and 2

Masters. G.M,, Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science, Prentice Hall of India. Pvt.Ltd. 2000 Edition.

Block. M.R, Implementing ISO 14001 , ASQC, Quality press. 2000 Edition

Shyam Divan and Armin Rosencranz Environmental law and policy in India by, Oxford Publishers . 2001 edition

ERGONOMIC ASSESSMENT TOOLS IN INDUSTRIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Objective

To provide a hands-on approach to various ergonomic tolls for assessment of work posture related musculoskeletal disorders, occupational Stress, work-life balance, Quality of Life and others so that these assessments can be independently carried out and appropriate inferences drawn in terms of severity of the malady and its possible alleviation.

Contents

Introduction to various ergonomic tools; Nordic Musculoskeletal Disorder Questionnaire (NMQ); Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA), Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA); Organizational Role Stress Scale (ORS), NIOSH Quality of Life Questionnaire; Ovako Working Posture Analysis System (OWAS), Quick Exposure Checklist (QEC), Borg Scale for RPE, Lumber Motion Monitor (LMM), Cardiopulmonary Exercise testing for assessment of VO2 Max, Spirometry, Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis for assessment of body composition. Ergomaster and 3DSSP softwares for Human-Computer interaction.

Text Books

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomic Methods. Neville Stanton

Fundamentals and Assessment Tools for Occupational Ergonomics. Marras and Karwowski

ERGONOMICS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

Objectives

To equip students with the ergonomic issues involved in manufacturing industries and to provide ergonomics support for improvement of productivity.

Contents

Ergonomics and human factors focusing on design, operation and management of manufacturing systems on shop floor and office environments. Integration of human skills with hardware performance, management of change, product & process quality and human-system reliability. Human aspects of computer-aided design, work design, human factors in total quality management. Ergonomics of workplace, equipment and tool design. Ergonomics guides and standards for industry. Ergonomics tools for shop floor evaluation.

Text books

Salvendy. G and Karwowski. W.: Ergonomics in Manufacturing: Raising Productivity through Workplace Improvement, Engineering and management press, 2012

Kroemer K, Kroemer H and Kroemer KE: Ergonomics How to design work for ease and efficiency. Prentice Hall publication, 2000.

Reference books

Stefan Trzcielinski; Waldemar Karwowski: Advances in Ergonomics in Manufacturing. CRC Press, 2012

Tyyari F and Smith JL., Occupational Ergonomics: principles and Applications, Chapman and Hall Publication, Great Britain, 1997.

Sanders MS and McCormick EJ., Human Factors in Engineering and design, McGraw Hill, New York, 1993.

OPEN ELECTIVES

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AREA ELECTIVES

E-COMMERCE

Objectives

Understanding electronic commerce for value addition and providing online support for manufacturing and service sectors

Contents

Concepts of E Commerce. Infrastructure Design Business models of e-commerce. Value added networks. Automation of process for online decision making. Application of E-commerce in Supply Chain Management. Sales Distribution Network. Financial management. Banking and Insurance Industry. Logistic Management and e-CRM.

Text Books

Ravi Kalakota. Andrw B. Whinston Electronic Commerce, AWL International

The Complete E-Commerce Book: Design, Build & Maintain a Successful Web-based Businessby Janice Reynolds

E-Commerce 2010 (6th Edition)by Kenneth C. Laudon

Reference

Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQLby Larry E. Ullman

E-Commerce Best Practices - How to market, sell, and service customers with internet technologiesby Thomas M McFadyen

E-Commerce Logistics & Fulfillment: Delivering the Goodsby Deborah L. Bayles

Strategic Digital Marketing: How to Apply an Integrated Marketing and ROI Framework for Your Businessby Eric Greenberg and Alexander Kates

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING

Objectives

To gain understanding of CIM, and develop skills of modern techniques and analytics for solving manufacturing product, process and design problems.

Contents

Computer aided design. IT applications for process planning. Engineering and group technologies. Automating production planning and control, MRP and scheduling. Online monitoring fault analysis, Optimization & feedback mechanism

Text Books

Automation, Production & Computer Integrated Manufacturing M.P. Groover person India, 2007 2nd edition

Principles of Computer Integrated Manufacturing S. Kant Vajpayee, Prentice Hal India

References

Computer Integrated Manufacturing J. A. Rehg & Henery. W. Kraebber

CAD/ CAM Zeid, Tata Mc Graw Hill

Business Analytics Using Data Mining

Objectives

To introduce business analytics concepts, techniques, issues, applications, and emerging trends

To cover various data mining techniques and their use in strategic business decision making

Contents:

The course provides a theoretical and practical understanding of detecting and defining business analytics problems and opportunities:Analytics and Business Performance, Analytics and Internal Processes, Analytics and External Processes,Impact of Big Data on IT, Unstructured Data analysis, being familiar with key data mining methods including data visualization, Association & Market-Basket Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Classification and Predictive Modeling: Decision Tree induction, Nearest-neighbor Classifiers, Bayesian Classifiers, Predictive Modeling Using Logistic Regression, Model evaluation and Interpretation, Predictive Modeling Using Neural Networks, Anomaly Detection, Text Mining, Big data Analytics.

Text Books

Data Mining and Business Analytics with R Johannes Ledolter, Wiley : 2013, ISBN-13:978-1118447147

Data Mining for Business Intelligence, by Galit Shmueli, Nitin R. Patel, and Peter C. Bruce (Wiley: 2007).

Reference Books

Data Mining : Concepts and Techniques by Jiewai Han and Kamber, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2005

Michael J. A. Berry Gordon S. Linoff Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, And Customer Relationship Management, 3rd Edition, Wiley India Pvt Ltd (2012)

Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar Introduction to DataMining 1st Edition (Paperback), Pearson, 2007

Margaret H. DunhamDataMining : Introductory and Advanced Topics 1st Edition 1st Edition 2008

IT IN MANUFACTURING

Objectives

This course provides fundamental principles for the effective use of information systems with a special emphasis on manufacturing.

Contents

IT-enabled Operational Effectiveness: ERP in manufacturing, Aligning IT and the Organization: Role of Artificial Intelligence and other forecasting technologies, Automated Virtual Manufacturing plants, linking process Modeling Architecture with ERP, IT and Productivity;

IT-implementation and Delivery: Role of Senior Management in the implementation process, Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture, implementing computer vision solutions in manufacturing, delivering an industry-wide solution.

Textbooks

IT for Manufacturing By Kevin Ake, John Clemons, Mark Cubine, Bruce Lily. CRC Press

Advances in Manufacturing By Spyros G. Tzafestas, Springer London, 2011.

Reference Books:

Information Technology for Manufacturing: A Research Agenda, Committee to Study Information Technology and Manufacturing, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council. National Academic Press.

Information Technology for Balanced Manufacturing Systems, IFIP TC 5, WG 5.5 Seventh International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing and Services, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 4-6, 2006.

Information Technology in Manufacturing Processes: Case Studies in Technological Change, Graham Winch

Information Technology for Manufacturing Systems, Selected, Peer Reviewed Papers from the 2010 International Conference on Information Technology for Manufacturing Systems (ITMS 2010), Macao, China, January, 30-31, 2010

E-CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Objective

To understand how the technology platform underlying e-CRM software solution fits within the enterprise ecosystem and describe processes and functions of an integrated e-CRM software solution comprising three components that form a closed feedback loop

Contents

Introduction to Customer Relationship management (CRM) and e-Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM), CRM functionalities: operational, analytical, and collaborative, CRM technologies, e-Channel Management, Five engines of e-CRM, CRM 2.0 Strategies, Tools, and Techniques, Market Intelligent Enterprise, Sales Force Automation, Call Centre Management, Enterprise Marketing automation, Partner Relationship Management, Customer Life Time Value (CLTV), Building and implementing e-CRM Strategy, e-CRM implementation Challenges, CRM in Multichannel environment.

Text Books

Paul Greenberg, CRM at the Speed of the Light , Fourth Edition : McGraw-Hill, 2009

Francis Buttle, Customer Relationship Management: Concept and Technologies, Butterworth-Heinemann; 2 edition Second Edition , 2008.

Reference Books

Dr. Pravin Balaraman, Prof Bill, Realities of CRM in Multinational Corporation: CRM, Relationship Marketing, CRM System, eBusiness application Lap Lambert Acad. Publ. (2010)

Jaiswal E-CRM: Business and System Frontiers Asian Books (2002)

Adam Metz The Social Customer: How Brands Can Use Social CRM to Acquire, Monetize, and Retain Fans, Friends, and Followers [eBook] Mcgraw-hill

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

Objectives

To understand the business processes from areas such as sales, marketing, procurement, manufacturing, and accounting and to demonstarte how ERP system can support and optimize the inherent business processes.

Contents

Introduction to ERP systems, Re-engineering and Enteprise Resource Planning Systems, Evaluation und implementation of ERP systems,understanding of business processes, connection between business processes and ERP systems, various modules viz: Sales and Marketing, Accounting and Finance, Production and Materials Management, Human Resources, Managing an ERP Project, ERP Life Cycle, Case Studies.

Text Books

Sumner, Mary: Enterprise Resource Planning, : Prentice Hall, 2006.

Bret Wagner and Ellen Monk, Enterprise Resource Planning, Course Technology; 3 edition 2008

Reference Books

Alexis LeonHYPERLINK "http://www.flipkart.com/erp-demystified-2/p/itmczynvhs4c7kjf?pid=9780070656642&otracker=from-search&srno=t_1&query=erp&ref=2293c32f-46ca-43c4-8b0c-3b2c91d77577"ERP Demystified 2 Edition (Paperback) Tata McGraw - Hill Education 2007

Jagan Vaman NathanHYPERLINK "http://www.flipkart.com/erp-practice-strategies-steering-competence-competitive-advantage-1st/p/itmczynvztsuzhpd?pid=9780070621077&otracker=from-search&srno=t_3&query=erp&ref=2293c32f-46ca-43c4-8b0c-3b2c91d77577"ERP in Practice : ERP Strategies for Steering Competence & Competitive Advantage 1st Edition (Paperback) Tata McGraw - Hill Education 2007

Glynn C. WilliamsHYPERLINK "http://www.flipkart.com/implementing-sap-erp-sales-distribution-1/p/itmczyz6h5qbdp5s?pid=9780070264847&otracker=from-search&srno=t_4&query=erp&ref=2293c32f-46ca-43c4-8b0c-3b2c91d77577"Implementing SAP ERP Sales and Distribution 1 Edition (Paperback) Tata McGraw - Hill Education 2008

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

Objectives

To introduce the concepts of Management Information Systems and its applications in managerial decision making.

Contents

Introduction to MIS- People, Organization, Systems and Management, Technology Concepts, System Life Cycle, Managing Data Resources, Enterprise-wide Computing and Networking, Office Automation, MIS Case Studies,Selected Issues in MIS Management, Relational Database Management System Concepts and Entity Relationship Modeling, Normalization, Concurrency Control and Transaction Management, Databae Security.

Text Books

Management Information Systems, Thomson Learning, James OBrien, 2010.

Raymond McLeod J., George Schell, Management Information Systems, Prentice-Hall International Inc., 2001.

Reference Books

James OBrien, George Marakus, Management Information Systems, 2010.

Kenneth Craig Laudon, Jane Price Laudon, Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, Prentice hall, 2002.

McNurlin, Spargue, Jr., Information Systems Managemnt in Practice, 6th Ed., 2003.

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Objectives

To enhance the decision making to meet business dynamics and problem solving

Contents

Decision Making Techniques.DSS Introduction, Concepts, Design and Development of DSS. Applications in Manufacturing and Service Sectors .DSS Models, GDSS, ODSS. ES Introduction, Concepts, Design and Development of ES. Integration of DSS and ES

Text Books

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems (9th Edition) Efraim Turban, Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen

Intelligent Systems: Principles, Paradigms and Pragmatics by RobertJ.Schalkoff

Keen Peter G. W. Decision Support system and Organsational Perspective- Addison Wesley

Reference

Theierauff Robert J.- Decision Support System for Effective Planning

Markas, George M. Decision Support System in the 21st Century

Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources for Managers By Daniel Power

Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources for Managers By Daniel J. PowerEditor, DSSResources.COM

A Brief History of Decision Support Systems by D. J. Power Editor,DSSResources.COM

Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century by StephenLucci and DannyKopec

DATA ANALYTICS

Objective

To demonstrate the latest tools, technologies, methodologies and trends in analysing the unstructured data.

Contents

Analytics and Business Performance, Analytics and Internal Processes, Analytics and External Processes,Impact of Big Data on IT, Unstructured Data analysis, Data Cleansing, emerging technologies for Big Data Analytics, Hardware Architecture, Analytics Application Architecture, Data architecture, Distributed frameworks : the emergence of Apache Hadoop, the Hadoop Ecosystem, Hadoop Infrastructure: Big Data Storage and Networking, Cloud computing, Google analytics, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon web services.

Text books:

Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, HBS Press, 1st Ed., 2007.

Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers, Ambiga Dhiraj, Big Data, Big Analytics: Emerging Business Intelligence and Analytical Trends for Todays Businesse, Wiley CIO Series, 2013.

Reference Books:

Viktor Mayer-Schonberger , Kenneth Cukier, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, Hodden and Stoughton (2013).

Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, John Wiley and Sons Publications, 2013.

Frank J. Ohlhorst, Big Data Analytics : Turning Big Data into Big Money,Wiley (2012).

Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, The Human Face of Big Data, Sterling Publication (2012).

Kevin Roebuck , Big Data: High-Impact Strategies, Tebbo (2011).

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To examine the issues underlying the design and development of knowledge management systems

Contents

Introduction to Knowledge Management, The Knowledge Edge, From Information to Knowledge, Understanding the importance of Knowledge, The technology push for Knowledge Management, Demystifying Knowledge Management, The Technology Perspective, The Process Perspective, The Learning System Perspective, The Knowledge Management tool box, Implementing Knowledge Management, The Knowledge Management Road Map, Knowledge Management System analysis, Design, and Development. Knowledge management and culture, Change Management, Knowledge Management and the learning organization.

Text Books

Amrit Tiwana; Knowledge management Tool Kit, 2002

Ashok Jashapara, Knowledge Management: An Integrated Approach, Prentice hall, 2004.

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Objective

To demonstrate the importance of Business Process Management for Enterprise SOA/ESA and develop an implementation and integration strategy for processes that leverages organizational and technical capabilities of an enterprise

Contents

Introduction to Business Process Management, The Evolution of Process Management, Enterprise Architecture and Business Strategy, Management with the House of Business Engineering (HOBE), Enabling Technologies for BPM, The BPM Transformation. The BPM Roadmap, The BPM Strategy, The BPM Set-up, The BPM Transition, Continuous Improvement, Build a Process-Centric IT, BPP- the BPM Enabler The Value of Bringing BPM and BPP together, Business needs to understand how SOA can enable BPM.

Text Books

J. H. Snabe, A. Rosenberg, C. Moller and M. ScavilloBusiness, Business Process Management: The SAP Roadmap, 2008

H. Smith and P. FingarBusiness Process management : the third wave, 2002

Reference Books

Ravi Anupindi, Sunil Chopra, Sudhakar D. Deshmukh, Jan A. VanHYPERLINK "http://www.flipkart.com/managing-business-process-flows-principles-operations-management-3rd/p/itmdd3fadyh73mfv?pid=9788131791264&otracker=from-search&srno=t_1&query=business+process+management&ref=5c0a90db-3ed8-4941-b5fc-10f8595ea10f"Managing BusinessProcess Flows: Principles of Operations Management 3rd Edition (Paperback), 2012

Uday PillaiHYPERLINK "http://www.flipkart.com/deploying-websphere-business-process-management-v7-secured-production-environments/p/itmdf86bhfsrtbdd?pid=9789350233627&otracker=from-search&srno=t_2&query=business+process+management&ref=5c0a90db-3ed8-4941-b5fc-10f8595ea10f"Deploying WebSphere BusinessProcessManagement V7 in Secured Production Environments (Paperback) Redbooks, 2011

Roger T. BurltonHYPERLINK "http://www.flipkart.com/business-process-management-profiting/p/itmczzhymgg28pst?pid=9780672320637&otracker=from-search&srno=t_12&query=business+process+management&ref=5c0a90db-3ed8-4941-b5fc-10f8595ea10f"BusinessProcessManagement: Profiting from Process (Paperback) Sams 2001

IT STRATEGY

Objective

To explore the concepts and activities involved in developing and delivering IT value to an organization, IT-Governance, IT-enabled innovation and reinventing IT capabilities.

Contents

Developing and Delivering on the IT Value Proposition, Developing IT Strategy for Business Value, Linking IT to Business Metrics, Managing Perceptions of IT; IT in the New World of Corporate Governance Reforms, Creating and Evolving a Technology Roadmap, The IT Budgeting Process, Information Management: The Nexus of Business and IT; Strategic Experimentation with IT, Enhancing the Customer Experience with Technology, Information Delivery: ITs Evolving Role, Digital Dashboards, Managing Electronic Communications; Developing IT Capabilities, IT Sourcing, Delivering IT Functions: A Decision Framework, Building Better IT Leaders: From the Bottom Up, Developing IT Professionalism, Case Studies.

Text Books

J. D. McKeen and H. Smith, IT Strategy in Action, Publisher: Pearson Higher Education, 2009

P. Weill and J. Ross, IT Governance, Harvard Business School Press, 2004

Reference Books

Peter Weill IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results

Jeanne W. Ross Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, Harvard Business School Press 2006

RobertJ.Benson and TomBugnitz From Business Strategy to IT Action: Right Decisions for a Better Bottom Line, 2004

IT RISK MANAGEMENT

Objectives:

To enable organisation to accomplish its mission of risk management by

1. Better securing IT systems that store, prices or transmit organisational information

2. Enabling management to make well informed risk management decisions to justify the expenditure that are part of IT budget

3. Assisting management in authorizing the IT systems on the basis of the supporting documentation resulting from the performance of risk management

Contents:

Objective of risk management .Overview of risk management and how it fits in System Development Lifecycle (SDLC).Risk Assessment Methodology system Characterization, Threat, Identification, Vulnerability Identification. Types of Risk. Decision making under, risk and uncertainty, using models like decision tree, simulation & various testing techniques. Strategies for various risk scenarios. Risk control & cost benefit analysis- Control Methodology, Control Category, Control Analysis Techniques. Risk mitigation process, including risk mitigation options and strategy. Risk evaluation & assessment and the factors that will lead to successful risk management program. Case studies

Text Books

IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage by GeorgeWesterman and RichardHunter

Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments: A Review of Industry Practices and a Practical... by JakeKouns and DanielMinoli

Reference Books

NIST Special Publication 800-12, an Introduction to Computer Security: The NIST Handbook.

NIST Special Publication 800-14, Generally Accepted Principles and Practices for Securing Information Technology systems Co-authored with Barbara Guttman.

NIST special publication 800-26, Security Self-Assessment Guide for Information Technology Systems.

NIST Special Publication 800-27, Engineering Principles for IT Security.

ONB Circular A-130. Management of Federal Information Resources. Appendix III. November 2000

Risk, Management guide for Information technology systems. Gary Stoneburmer, Alice Gogues and Alexis Feringa. Special Publication 800-30

SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Objective

To acquaint students with the know-how of managing the software projects and discuss on various stages of the software projects from the inception to the implementation

Contents

Introduction to Managing Software Development, Unified Modeling Language (UML) approach to Software process Planning and Scheduling Software Development, Rational unified process,Software process Management, Software Size and Schedule Estimation:Factors affecting Software Productivity, Software Estimation Metrics, Sizing Software, Risks of Current Software Estimation Metrics, Function Points &Adapting Software Estimation Metrics, Planning and Scheduling Software Development.

Text Books

Kathy Schwalbe, Information Technology Project Management, THOMSON LEARNING

G Ramesh, Managing Global Software Projects, Tata McGraw Hill

DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING

Objectives

To provide students lots of hands-on experience with real problems and to facilitate them develop problem-solving skills. To expose the students to the application of quantitative methods in solving real-world problems. To familiarize the students with the usage of computer software for data modeling and decision making.

Contents

Finding relationship among variables; Decision making under uncertainty; Regression Analysis; Time Series Analysis and Forecasting.

Text book

Data Analysis and Decision Making by S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston, Christopher Zappe, South-Western CENGAGE Learning, 2009.

ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

Objective

Principles, practices of technology development and its implementation and application in industrial and manufacturing engineering, services, products and systems

Contents

World Class Manufacturing. Computer-aided technologies in manufacturing. Manufacturing Excellence Using Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Robotics, Embedded Technologies. Fuzzy Logic. Integration of Business Processes and Manufacturing. ITS Application for Industrial Engineering and Optimization

Text Books

World Class Manufacturing: Richard J. Schonberger

Computer integrated manufacturing and engineering by Ulrich Rembold, Bartholomew O. Nnaji, Alfred Storr

Reference

Top Managements Guide to World Class Manufacturing by by Michael G. Tincher.

World Class Manufacturing A Strategic Perspective Author:B S Sahay, K B C Saxena, Ashish Kumar.

Computer-aided manufacturing by Tien-Chien Chang, Richard A. Wysk, Hsu-Pin Wang.

The Global Manufacturing Revolution: Product-Process-Business Integration and Reconfigurable Systems (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management) By Yoram Koren

Computer Aided Manufacturing By T. K. Kundra

Computational Optimization and Applications in Engineering and Industry By Xin-She Yang, Slawomir Koziel

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Objectives

To study information system development process, software analysis & design methodology for business applications by covering various aspects of software engineering like software process, Software Engineering practices, software management practices.

Contents

Software Engineering paradigm. Scope, process and its management, software, Life Cycle Model. System Modeling. Requirement Analysis. Business Process, Reengineering. Software development standards. Structured System Analysis and Design. SSAP notations, Tools techniques. Analysis & design using Object oriented design & UML. Modular Design. User Interface Design Software Quality Assurance Testing. Maintenance Software evaluation. Costing of Software. Project Management. Risk Management

Text Books

Pressman R S Software Engineering A Practitioners approach, MC Graw Hill Inc.

Peter S, James, Pedrycz W. Software Engineering An Engineering approach John Wiley & Sons

Reference

Booch, Rambaush Jackson, Software Development using UML Addition Wesley Press

Satzinger, Object Oriented Analysis & Design with Unified Process, CengageLearning

Business Process Integration

Objective

To develop a hands-on understanding of the concepts underlying enterprise system.

Contents

Creation of a fully functioning company with emphasis on Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning and control (PP), Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO) , Reconfigure an SAP system as a company grows or shrinks, Test and document the configuration process, Importance of organizational structure, master data and organizational rules in the configuration process. Case Studies.

Text Books

1. Simha R. Magal, Jeffrey WordIntegrated Business Processes with ERP Systems,ISBN 978-0-470-47844-8, 2012

2. Roger Hayen, SAP R/3 Enterprise Software, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2007

3. Business Process Integration I and II Study Book, SAP, 2010

Reference Books

1. Thomas A. Curran, Gerhard Keller, Andrew Ladd , SAP R/3 Business Blueprint: Understanding Enterprise Supplychain management [Paperback], 1999

DATA COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKING

Objectives

Data communications and networking may be the fastest growing technologies in our culture today. One of the ramifications of that is a dramatic increase in the number of professions where an understanding of these technologies is essential for success.

Contents

Analog & digital transmission, Data networking concept; Hubs, Hubs, Bridges, and Switches; OSI reference Model; Application layer Protocols: HTIP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, DNS; Ethernet Technologies, Wireless networks technology and applications, Cellular & other communication technologies and applications, High speed digital access: DSL, Cable modem, Wireless LAN , Satellite communications

Textbooks

Tannenbaum, A.S., Computer Networks, Prentice Hall of India, Latest Edition

Forouzan B.A., Data communications and networking, Tata Mcgraw Hill

SOFTWARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To discuss various concepts and models of software quality management with special emphasis on the Prevailing trends in the industry.

Contents

Measurement and metrics; metrics integration with software engineering process; metrics Validation; Halsteads software science; complexity metrics; software product and process quality; software reliability and availability measures; software quality; assurance management documentation ; reviews and audits; Software Testing; Software Configuration Management, Change and version control; Quality related certification models; Information technology systems audit; Comparison of the ISO 9000 model with SEIs CMM; quality-related certification models, Six Sigma Concepts.

Textbooks

Moriguchi S., Software Excellance; A total Quality ManagementGuide. Productivity Press,1997.

Zellls L., Managing Software Projects: QED Information Sciences. Massachusetts: Wellesly, 1990.

Mordechai B.M. and Marliss G.S., Software: Producing Practical Consistent Software. International Thomson Computer Press, 1997.

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AREA

Course Code EM1. SHOP FLOOR WASTE MANAGEMENT

Objectives

To introduce students to the concepts & steps of identifying and eliminating waste from the shop floor.

Contents

What is waste, how does waste occur, Classification of waste: The three MUs, The 5M+Q+S, flow of goods, Seven deadly wastes, Tools for analyzing current conditions quickly & effectively. How to reduce/remove waste, Seven principles for identifying and reducing waste during operations. Lean to sustainability; value stream mapping: Hazardous material used/generated, water used. Reverse logistics environmentally friendly recovering & reusing of parts & materials.

Text Books

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor, Productivity press, NY, 2010

Green Manufacturing, Productivity press, NY, 2008

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Objective

To familiarize students with the approach, tools and techniques in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

Contents

History of EIA, Utility of the EIA process, EIA Notification of 2006 and Amendments, Planning and Management of Impact Assessment Studies, EIA Methodologies, Prediction and Assessment of Impacts on the Air, Water, Land, Noise, Social and Biological Environments, Decision Methods for Evaluation of Alternatives, Generation of Environmental Management Plan, Public Participatio