| Course Code | ME 308 |
| Course Name | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research |
| Offered to | UG |
| Pre-requisites | NIL |
| Lecture | 2 |
| Tutorial | 1 |
| Practical | 0 |
| Credit | 6 |
| Reference | Texts / References:
1. R. M. Barnes; Motion and Time Study Design and Measurement of Work; John
Wiley & Sons; 7 th Edition, 2013. 2. M. K. Groover; Work Systems --- The Methods, Measurement & Management of Work; Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.; 1 st Edition; 2017. 3. K. George; Introduction to Work Study by ILO; Universal Book Corporation, Bombay; 2011. 4. W. J. Stevenson; Operation Management; McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd.; 12 th Edition; 2018. 5. R. Panneerselvam; Operations and Production Management; PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.; 3 rd Edition; 2019. 6. F. S. Hillier, G. J. Lieberman, B. Nag, P. Basu; Introduction to Operations Research; McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd.; 10 th Edition; 2017. 7. H. A. Taha; Operations Research --- An Introduction; Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd.; 8 th Edition; 2008. 8. H. S. Kasana, K. D. Kumar; Introductory Operations Research --- Theory and Applications; Springer International Edition; 2011. 9. S. R. Yadav, A. K. Malik; Operations Research; Oxford University Press; 2014. 10. A. Ravindran, D. T. Philips and J. J. Solberg; Operations Research; Principles and Practice, John Wiley & Sons; 2005. |
| Description | Course Objectives:
1. To understand the concept of productivity and the techniques of
improving the existing system
2. To study methods of establishing work standard
3. To study various methods for effective management of production
operations
4. To analyse real life decision making situations and develop the art of
converting these situations into mathematical models
5. To understand the working principles of techniques to solve linear
programming problems • Introduction to Industrial Engineering • Productivity, Work Study, Method Study, Principles of Motion Economy, Ergonomics, Work Measurement • Forecasting Techniques • Plant Location and Plant Layout • Sequencing and Scheduling • Inventory Management • Project Management, CPM and PERT Analysis • Introduction to Concepts of Operations Research and Optimization • Linear Programming, Problems formulation, Graphical Method, Simplex Method, its Extensions and Variants, Sensitivity Analysis • Concepts and Applications of Primal-Dual Problems, Duality Theory • Transportation and Assignment Models |