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Welcome To The Court of Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar: Satyam - Integrated Engineering Solutions

The document discusses ideas presented by Birbal to Emperor Akbar to reduce the cost of producing swords for the army without decreasing quality. Birbal uses a technique called Functional Analysis System Technique to generate six ideas that could save at least Rs. 20 per sword and potentially save Rs. 10 lakhs for the army overall that year.

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Welcome To The Court of Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar: Satyam - Integrated Engineering Solutions

The document discusses ideas presented by Birbal to Emperor Akbar to reduce the cost of producing swords for the army without decreasing quality. Birbal uses a technique called Functional Analysis System Technique to generate six ideas that could save at least Rs. 20 per sword and potentially save Rs. 10 lakhs for the army overall that year.

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Satyam 2009 1

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Welcome to the court of Emperor

Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar
Satyam 2009 2
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Noble men! There
is a very
important matter
before the court
today.

The raw material
price is shooting up.
The material cost of
a sword has gone up
by Rs.10 . And .
We are adding
50,000 soldiers to
our army this year.

I want to handle
this situation
without
increasing the
taxes. Please
give your
valuable
suggestions as
to how we
should face this
situation.

Satyam 2009 3
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!?
!!
??
Why everyones
quiet?
Birbal! I am
surprised that you
too have become
silent!!

Your Majesty, I
have six ideas
which can reduce
the cost of a
sword by atleast
Rs.20 without
compromising the
functional
requirements.

Brilliant!.
Tell us those
ideas.

Satyam 2009 4
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Presently,
the hilt has
7 parts.
The
proposed
design will
have 4 .

Existing Design
7 parts
New Idea
4 parts
Part Count
Reduction
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For the new hilt,
instead of designing
exclusive rivets, we
can use the rivets of
daggers.

Part
Commonisatio
n
x
Satyam 2009 6
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When the Shah of
Persia was our Guest
last month ,
I observed that the
hilt in his sword does
not have a curved
portion. We can
design similar hilts
for our experienced
soldiers.
Benchmarking
New Idea
Existing Design
Curved portion
Satyam 2009 7
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Alternate
Material
Blade
Sheath
Copper
Steel
The sheath
which houses
the blade is
made of copper
now.
We can switch
over to Alloy
steel which is
cheaper.
Satyam 2009 8
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Weight
Reduction
Blade
Sheath
Since alloy steel is
stronger than
copper, we can
reduce the
thickness by 0.5
mm which will save
material
2 mm
1.5 mm
Satyam 2009 9
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Yield
Improvement
The curved
blade design is
yielding only 2
pieces per die. If
a straight blade
is designed, we
can extract 3
pieces per die.
2 Blades
3 Blades
Satyam 2009 10
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Your majesty. The
present design is being
used since the time of
Babur
without any failure.
We should not risk any
design change.
Saheb, there is no
doubt that the
present sword
designed by you for
my Grandfathers
army is superior.
However, let us test
this new design in
our barracks.If they
pass the tests, we
will deploy them in
the battle field.
If the ideas pass
the test, we can
save atleast Rs.
Ten Lakhs this
year, thus serving
the purpose of
cost reduction.
There is an
advantage also.
I do not have to
increase the tax.
Satyam 2009 11
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Birbal! I wonder
how you developed
these ideas! Is
there a systematic
way by which
others can also be
trained to generate
such ideas.

Yes, your Majesty.
With the help of Functional Analysis
System Technique(FAST) any body
can generate such ideas. FAST is a
powerful tool used in Value
Engineering (VE) which is an
extremely effective system to
improve products and services for
cost and productivity improvement.
If six ideas for the
sword itself can
save Rs. Ten lakhs ,
imagine how much
money we can save
on other weapons
like spears, arrows
and cannons etc.

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Birbal! There are four divisions in my
army Infantry, Cavalry,Artillery and
Elephant brigade. I want you to teach
the engineers in each of these
divisions the application of Value
Engineering (VE), especially the
Functional Analysis System
Technique(FAST). Each division should
release Armoury Change Requests
(ACRs) for the worth of Rs.25 lakh.
Yes, your
Majesty.

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