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Metrology and Inspection: Accuracy and precision; Types of errors; Limits, fits and tolerances;
Gauge design, Interchangeability, Selective assembly; Linear, angular, and form
measurements (straightness, flatness, roundness, runout and cylindricity) by mechanical and
optical methods; Inspection of screw threads and gears; Surface roughness measurement by
contact and non-contact methods.
Quality Management: Quality – concept and costs; Statistical quality control – process
capability analysis, control charts for variables and attributes and acceptance sampling; Six
sigma; Total quality management; Quality assurance and certification - ISO 9000, ISO14000.
Product Design and Development: Principles of product design, tolerance design; Quality and
cost considerations; Product life cycle; Standardization, simplification, diversification; Value
engineering and analysis; Concurrent engineering; Design for “X”.
Facility Design: Facility location factors and evaluation of alternate locations; Types of plant
layout and their evaluation; Computer aided layout design techniques; Assembly line
balancing; Materials handling systems.
Operation Research: Linear programming – problem formulation, simplex method, duality and
sensitivity analysis; Transportation and assignment models; Integer programming;
Constrained and unconstrained nonlinear optimization; Markovian queuing models;
Simulation – manufacturing applications.
Engineering Economy and Costing: Elementary cost accounting and methods of depreciation;
Break-even analysis; Techniques for evaluation of capital investments; Financial statements;
Activity based costing.
Production control: Forecasting techniques – causal and time series models, moving average,
exponential smoothing, trend and seasonality; Aggregate production planning; Master
production scheduling; MRP, MRP-II and ERP; Routing, scheduling and priority dispatching;
Push and pull production systems, concepts of Lean and JIT manufacturing systems;
Logistics, distribution, and supply chain management; Inventory – functions, costs,
classifications, deterministic inventory models, quantity discount; Perpetual and periodic
inventory control systems.
Project management: Scheduling techniques – Gantt chart, CPM, PERT and GERT.