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SL 1 in Value Engineering
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Module Objectives
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Module Outline
SL 1 in Value
Engineering
4. Concepts of VE
5. History of VE
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SL 1 in Value Engineering
Why everyone’s
Your Majesty, I quiet?
have six ideas Birbal! I am
which can reduce surprised that you
the cost of a too have become
sword by atleast silent!!
Rs.20 without Brilliant!.
compromising the Tell us those
functional ?? ideas.
!!
requirements.
!?
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Part Count
Reduction
Presently,
the hilt has
7 parts.
The
proposed
design will
have 4 .
7 parts 4 parts
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Part
Commonisatio
n
For the new hilt,
instead of designing
exclusive rivets, we
can use the rivets of
daggers.
x
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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.
Curved portion
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Alternate
The sheath Material
which houses
the blade is
made of copper
now.
We can switch
over to Alloy
steel which is
cheaper.
Copper Steel
Sheath
Blade
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Weight
Since alloy steel is Reduction
stronger than
copper, we can
reduce the
thickness by 0.5
mm which will save
material
2 mm 1.5 mm
Sheath
Blade
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Yield
The curved Improvement
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
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There is an
advantage also.
I do not have to
Saheb, there is no
increase the tax.
doubt that the
present sword
designed by you for Your majesty. The
my Grandfather’s present design is being
army is superior. used since the time of
However, let us test Babur
this new design in without any failure.
our barracks.If they We should not risk any
pass the tests, we design change.
will deploy them in If the ideas pass
the battle field. the test, we can
save atleast Rs.
Ten Lakhs this
year, thus serving
the purpose of
cost reduction.
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