FULLY SOLVED BOOK LASY 5 YEARS PAPERS SOLVED PLUS GUESS
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Section 1 Basics of Operations Management
Unit 1 Introduction, Transformation Approach, Value Driven Approach, Determine Customer Needs, Develop Product Strategy
Unit 2 Secure Processes and Materials to Satisfy Demand, Manage Strategic Planning Processes, Importance of Customers in Operation Management, Distinction between Consumers and Customers, Performance, Quality, Flexibility
Unit 3 Automation, Advantages of Automation, Disadvantages of Automation, The Operations Manager’s Role, Structural Decisions, Infrastructural Decisions, Organisational Decisions, Interfaces with other Functions
Unit 4 Operations Management – Marketing Interface, Operations Management – Finance Interface
Section 2 Product and Product Design
Unit 5 Introduction, Typology of Products, Effective Operations Management, Product Development Process, Clarification of the Task, Concept Generation
Unit 6 Embodiment Design, Detailed Engineering Design, Physical Evaluation, Speed of Product Development, Product Design and Architecture, Product Architecture,
Unit 7 Engineering Economy, Measuring Costs and Identifying Waste, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), DFX – Design for ‘X’, End Product and Parts Standardization, Modular Designs,
Unit 8 Prduct Development in Services, Product Development Strategies, Internal Development, Reverse Engineering, Collaborative Development and Contracted Out R&D
Unit 9 Joint Ventures, Producer-customer, Manufacturing Sub-contracting
Section 3 Location Decision
Unit 10 Introduction, Need for a Facility Location Planning, Nature of Location Decisions
Unit 11 Factors Affecting Location Decisions, Factors Affecting Manufactured Products, Factors Affecting Service Products
Unit 12 Selection of Site for the Plant, Country, State/District, Plant Location, Procedures for Location Decisions, Facility Master Plan, Impact Planning, Site Evaluation
Unit 13 Techniques of Location Analysis, Factor Rating Method, Load Distance Mode, Least Cost Method, Location Decision sing the Transportation Method
Section 4 Plant Layout
Unit 14 Introduction, Facility Layout, Types of Layout, Process Layout, Product or Line Layout, Assembly Line KENT Centre for Distance Learning Syllabus-
Unit 15 Defining the Layout Problem, Assembly Line Balancing, Graphic and Schematic Analysis,Limitations of Product Layout
Unit 16 Fixed Layout, Cellular or Group Layout, The U-shaped Assembly Line, Advantages and Disadvantages, Comparison of Layouts
Unit 17 New Approaches to Layout Design, Other Service Layouts, Plant Maintenance, Maintenance strategies, Corrective or Breakdown Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Proactive Maintenance
Unit 18 Root Cause Failure Analysis, Total Productive Maintenance, Objectives of TPM.
Section 5 Productivity and Production
Unit 19 Introduction, Organization and Productivity, Labour Productivity, Multiple Factor Productivity, Total Factor Productivity
Unit 20 Competitiveness Strategy and Productivity, Enhancing Productivity to gain
Competitiveness, Productivity in Manufacturing versus Service Firms, Computing Productivity, Productivity Indices, Activity
Unit 21 Production Planning and Control, Benefits to Small Entrepreneur, Steps of Production Planning and Control.
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