MEC 403 Manufacturing Systems and

Operations

Semester: Monsoon 2022

Students: BTech (Mechanical) 2019 batch

Credits: 2

Monday and Wednesday 1100 – 1230

Room No. 300,
School of Arts and Science, Ahmedabad University

Course coordinator: Ujjaval Modi

(ujjaval.modi@ahduni.edu.in)
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Course Component
• Mid semester Examination – 20%
• End semester Examination – 30%
• Quiz - 15%
• Assignment – 15%
• Projects - 20%

• Suggest Books
1. Factory Physics: Foundations of Manufacturing Management. Hopp, Wallace J., and Mark
L. Spearman. 3rd ed. Waveland Press Incorporated
2. Production Systems Engineering. Li , Jingshan, and Semyon M. Meerkov. Springer
3. Introduction to Statistical Quality Control. Douglas C. Montgomery, Publication: John Wiley
& Sons, Inc
4. Operations Management: Theory and Problems. Joseph G. Monks, Publication: McGraw-
Hill
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Quality, customer service & cost challenges

• Adequate quality
• Multidiscipline team for design, develop to save time, cost
• Challenges to reduce cost
• Labour cost – rate, productivity
• Material cost

• Approaches
• Production move to low labour cost
• Automation – increase quality, reduce scrap, fast response
• Negotiation
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Corporate Mission

Business strategy

Product/Service
plans

Competitive Priorities
• Cost, time, Quality, Flexibility

Operation strategy
• Processing the production system
• Product/service plan
• Outsourcing plan
• Process & Technology plan
• Strategic allocation of resource
• Facility: capacity, location & layout
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Competitive priority Definition Way of creating

Low production cost Unit cost of each product/service, Redesign of product

including labour, material & overhead New technology
cost Increase in production rate
Reduction of scrap, inventories
Delivery performance Fast delivery Larger finished good inventories
Faster production rate
Quicker shipping method
On time delivery Realistic promises
Better control of production of order
Better information system
High quality Customer perception of degree of Improve product's: appearance,
products/service excellence exhibited by malfunction or defect rate,
product/services performance & function, wear,
endurance ability, after sale service
Customer service & Ability to quickly change production to Changes type of processes used
flexibility other product, customer Use advance technologies
responsiveness Increase in capacity
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Thank You