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Welcome To The Court of Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar

Birbal presents 6 ideas to Emperor Akbar to reduce the cost of making swords by at least Rs. 20 without compromising quality. The ideas include reducing part counts, using common parts from other weapons, adopting designs from other armies, switching materials, reducing thickness, and improving manufacturing processes. Akbar is impressed and asks Birbal how others can generate such cost-saving ideas. Birbal explains the technique of functional analysis system or FAST used in value engineering to systematically improve products and services. Akbar decides to implement value engineering in all army divisions to reduce costs.

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Welcome To The Court of Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar

Birbal presents 6 ideas to Emperor Akbar to reduce the cost of making swords by at least Rs. 20 without compromising quality. The ideas include reducing part counts, using common parts from other weapons, adopting designs from other armies, switching materials, reducing thickness, and improving manufacturing processes. Akbar is impressed and asks Birbal how others can generate such cost-saving ideas. Birbal explains the technique of functional analysis system or FAST used in value engineering to systematically improve products and services. Akbar decides to implement value engineering in all army divisions to reduce costs.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Welcome to the court of Emperor

Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

The raw material


Noble men! There
price is shooting up.
is a very I want to handle
The material cost of
important matter this situation
a sword has gone up
before the court without
by Rs.10 . And ….
today. increasing the
We are adding
50,000 soldiers to taxes. Please
our army this year. give your
valuable
suggestions as
to how we
should face this
situation.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Why everyone’s quiet?


Birbal! I am surprised
that you too have
become silent!!

??
!!
!?

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Your Majesty, I have six


ideas which can reduce
the cost of a sword by
atleast Rs.20 without
?? compromising the
!! functional requirements.
!?

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Brilliant!.
Tell us those
?? ideas.
!!
!?

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Part Count
Presently, Reduction
the hilt has 7
parts. The
proposed
design will
have 4 .

Existing Design New Idea

7 parts 4 parts

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Part
For the new hilt, Commonisation
instead of designing
exclusive rivets, we
can use the rivets of
daggers.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Benchmarking
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.

Existing Design New Idea

Curved portion

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

The sheath which Alternate


houses the blade is Material
made of copper now.
We can switch over to
Alloy steel which is
cheaper.

Copper Steel

Sheath

Blade

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Since alloy steel is Weight


stronger than copper, we Reduction
can reduce the thickness
by 0.5 mm which will
save material

2 mm 1.5 mm

Sheath

Blade

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

The curved blade design is Yield


yielding only 2 pieces per Improvement
die. If a straight blade is
designed, we can extract
3 pieces per die.

2 Blades 3 Blades

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Your majesty. The


present design is being
used since the time of
Babur
without any failure.
We should not risk any
design change.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Saheb, there is no doubt


that the present sword
designed by you for my
Grandfather’s 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.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

If the ideas pass the


test, we can save
atleast Rs. Ten
Lakhs this year, thus
serving the purpose
of cost reduction.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

There is an
advantage also.
I do not have to
increase the tax.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Birbal! I wonder how you


developed these ideas! Is
there a systematic way
by which others can also
be trained to generate
such ideas.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

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.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

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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SL 1 in Value Engineering

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.

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SL 1 in Value Engineering

Yes, your
Majesty.

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