M.Tech.

Manufacturing Management
Course Descriptions
MM ZC412 Flexible Manufacturing Systems 4
Introduction CAD/CAM systems, overview of FMS, system hardware and general functions,
material handling system, work holding systems, cutting tools and tool management,
physical planning of system, software structure functions and description, cleaning and
automated inspection, communications and computer networks for manufacturing,
quantification of flexibility, human factors in manufacturing, FMS and CIM in action (case
studies), justification of FMS, modelling for design, planning and operation of FMS.
MM ZC441 Human Resource Management 4
Introduction, manpower planning, career and succession planning, procurement of
personnel, performance appraisal, job satisfaction and morale, job rotation, employee
communication, audit and control, management training and development, wage and salary
administration, welfare administration, trade unions and collective bargaining, industrial
dispute and worker participation in management.
MM ZG512 Manufacturing Strategy
4
Corporate strategy; Missing links in manufacturing strategy; Audit approach;
Restructuring; Manufacturing strategy process in practice; Formulation as a process;
Operating strategies; Methodology framework; Lean production; Competitive priorities;
Strategic value of response time and product variety; Flexibility in context of
manufacturing strategy; Manufacturing focus; Business process reengineering; Theory of
constraints; Link between strategy and organizational culture; Evolution of manufacturing
systems; Operations management strategic perspective.
MM ZG513 Maintenance Engineering
5
Introduction, maintenance systems, methods and tools of maintenance analysis, reliability
and safety, maintainability, supportability, design for maintenance, maintenance
integration, computerized maintenance management systems, TPM, world-class
maintenance systems, and maintenance effectiveness and performance evaluation.
MM ZG514 Leadership & Managing Change 4
Individuals as leaders, team leadership and organizational leadership. Introduction to
managing change, management of change : organizational structure, culture, recruitment,
performance management, human resource development, reward management, employee
relations and involvement, downsizing, and evaluating and promoting.
MM ZG515 Quantitative Methods
4
Basic concepts in Operations Research; Analytical & Mathematical Modeling Techniques;
Model Building; Inventory Control, queuing theory; Linear Programming; Transportation
and assignment problems, simulation, index numbers, decision theory, etc.

MM ZG522 Total Quality Management

4
TQM principles and practices; leadership; customer satisfaction; employee involvement;
continuous process improvement; supplier partnership; performance measures; statistical
process control; ISO 9000; benchmarking; quality function deployment; concurrent
engineering; experimental design; Taguchis quality engineering; product liability
MM ZG523 Project Management
4
Concepts and techniques of project formulation, evaluation and implementation; Project
planning and scheduling; Risk management; Time-cost trade off; Resource leveling and
allocation; Project monitoring and control; Contract management.
MM ZG533 Manufacturing Planning & Control
5
Planning and control of manufacturing operations; material flow planning; product and
process planning; demand forecasting and forecasting models; facility location; plant layout
planning and design; machine cells; capacity planning; designing work methods; material
handling; line balancing; aggregate planning; inventory models and systems for
independent demand; materials requirements planning; elements of monitoring and
production control; current developments in operations management.
MM ZG534 Sustainable Manufacturing
4
Introduction to sustainable manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing design, practice and
matrices, life cycle management and assessment, end of life (EOL) strategies,
implementation framework, sustainable business models, waste minimization, case
studies.
MM ZG535 Decision Analysis
4
Introduction to quantitative techniques and statistics, Decision making, intelligence design
and choice phases, basic theory of decision making under uncertainty; decision trees,
qualification of judgments and preferences, Bayes theorem, the structuring of complex
decisions, and multi-attribute utility theory. Statistical estimation and forecasting.
MM ZG537 Lean Manufacturing
5
Course description to be developed.
MM ZG541 Product Design
5
Introduction to creative design; user research and requirements analysis, product
specifications, Computer Aided Design; standardization, variety reduction, preferred
numbers and other techniques; modular design; design economics, cost analysis, cost
reduction and value analysis techniques, design for production; human factors in design:
anthropometric, ergonomic, psychol giccl, physiological considerations in design decision
making; legal factors, engineering ethics and society.
MM ZG611 Strategic Management & Business Policy
4
Strategic management elements; internal, external, external environment. assessment of
corporate strengths, weaknesses and opportunities; planning and deployment of capital
assets; profit planning and control functions problems, pressures, responsibilities, limits of
the chief executive; evaluation of one's own business undertaking; formulating objectives,
strategies, policies and programmes for improving companys present situation; personnel
strength and implementation of the policies and programmes, development,

implementation, evaluation and control of strategies, strategic management of MNCs,

management style and behavior, corporate style, behavior and culture.
MM ZG621 Supply Chain Management
4
Customer driven strategies in production and distribution systems; Integrated production
and distribution networks; SCM in the context of JIT and MRPII; Distribution Resource
Planning; Management of dealer networks; Total Control & Product innovation across the
supply chain; Incoming logistics and supplier relationships; Value addition analysis;
Metrics for management of supply chain performance; Mathematical models and computer
assisted decision support for SCM; Mathematical programming for SCM.
BITS ZG628T Dissertation
16
A student registered in this course must take a topic in an area of professional interest
drawn from the on the job work requirement which is simultaneously of direct relevance to
the degree pursued by the student as well as to the employing / collaborating organization
of the student and submit a comprehensive report at the end of the semester working
under the overall supervision and guidance of a professional expert who will be deemed as
the supervisor for evaluation of all components of the dissertation. Normally the Mentor of
the student would be the Dissertation supervisor and in case Mentor is not approved as the
supervisor, Mentor may play the role of additional supervisor. The final grades for
dissertation are Non-letter grades namely Excellent, Good, Fair and Poor, which do not go
into CGPA computation.