Project Appraisal Seminar 2005 was held on Friday 20th May 2005 at the seminar hall-2. After an invocation by S.A.Vasantha Kumara, Asst.Prof, IEM, the seminar was formally inaugurated by Dr.K.Mallikarjuna Babu, Prof. & HOD, IEM, BMSCE. R.V.Praveena Gowda, lecturer, IEM welcomed the gathering. In his key note address, Dr.Babu spoke about the Engineers of tomorrow. Prof. S.R.Sridhar, HOD, IEM proposed the vote of thanks. Mr. K.N.Subramanya, Asst.Prof. IEM, RVCE presided over the function and was one of the members of the jury to evaluate the projects. Five batches of students presented their projects and at the end, Prof. K.N.Subramanya gave concluding remarks with feed back to the students. All the staff and students participated in the seminar which was followed by a lunch at our campus canteen.
Improvement in Material Handling and Storage System
at REVA Electric Car Company, Bangalore
Aravinda V K 1DS01IM003
FAROOK- A- AZAM 1DS00IM006
POORNIMA R 1DS01IM015
Srinivas P S 1DS01IM022
ABSTRACT
Materials management is a main activity in any of the manufacturing firms and is also very critical for the successful running of the organization. This motivated us to take the project at REVA Electric Car company which included designing of effective storage, handling and movement of materials within the company which may be called Internal Logistics.
The following is a brief scenario of the problem and the solution suggested. Reva Electric Car Company has 18 station assembly lines with 8 sub stations. At present the company is following the policy of batch production. Due to increased demand, the company wants to change to fixed production of four cars per shift. It takes more than eight hours to issue four cars set materials from stores to shop floor. The maximum storage capacity in the shop floor is only eight car set materials. So, the goal is to issue four cars set material in four hours from stores to shop floor.
This is achieved by designing better material handling system, systematic issue of materials and effective packaging. The material issue procedure and time is studied using time study procedures. Based on the time study data Pareto analysis is used to identify the major problem causing areas.
The existing storage system is analyzed. Load distance analysis approach is used to relocate the bins. Hardware issue procedure is analyzed using Work-study techniques and a better issue procedure is suggested. By the suggested procedure the hardware issue time can be reduced by 56%.
The existing material handling system data is also collected and suitable trolleys are suggested to enhance the capacity of the material handling system as compared to the existing one. By doing so number of trips can be reduced from stores to assembly line increasing the handling efficiency by 40% in terms trips thereby, helping to achieve our objective. Also by the use of suggested trolleys, the safety of the materials can be enhanced.
ANALYSIS OF LOGISTICS SYSTEM AT KTTML, BANGALORE”
ABSTRACT
KIRLOSKAR TOYODA TEXTILE MACHINERY PVT. LTD located at JIGANI, Bangalore, is a capital goods manufacturing organization, which started its operations in 1995. It manufactures the RXI 240 Spinning Frame and also houses the auto parts segment.
The main objective of the study was Logistics and inventory management which are two, vast and important concepts covering various areas and it forms the backbone for any organization’s efficient functioning, profit making, survival and growth.
KTTM procures parts from the local vendors in batch quantities as per the Minimum Ordering Quantity (MOQ) and the lead-time of the supplier. Three transporters were hired for this purpose, so there must be an optimal routing with an optimal cost of expenses incurred. Travelling Salesman Little’s Penalty technique was adopted. Hence the optimal schedule and routing of transporters with respect to time, distance and capacity along with the sequencing of vendors was made
KTTM also procures parts from states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat .Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) accounted for 24% of the total logistics cost (Rs.53,92,793/-) for year 2004-2005 *. Hence an effort was made to formulate a right combination of castings and plastics to reduce the pick-up points (from 70 to 40) as shown table **.
Along with logistics the inventory management i.e., the adoption of Economic ordering quantity (EOQ), which minimizes the inventory costs was proposed. The reason for the above proposal was the high number of orders schedule) as per MOQ. As a result, a basic inventory model with time consideration was suggested. This is backed up by the physical verification of the storage space. The proposal will reduce the number of orders, in turn the ordering cost and the selective inventory (ABC) classification highlights the ABC class items, each requiring varied level of attention.
There fore as a project an effort was made to reduce the cost involved in the above logistics.
BADARINATH.K.V 1DS01IM004
GEETHA.B 1DS01IM011
MADHWARAJ.C.B 1DS01IM012
MANPREET KAUR SANGHA 1DS01IM013
ABSTRACT
Being a new company it is facing problems in capturing a large sector of the market. The market was monopolized by LIC . The people are not aware about the company and its products. There is strong competition among private life insurance company. The company has less channels of promotion for its products.
To overcome the above problems from the various types of market research methods available such as Advertising concepts, Advertising tracking, Brand positioning, Brand tracking ,questionnaire technique ,etc;, We adopted the questionnaire technique for the market research in this project.
After discussing with our internal and external guide we decided to choose the questionnaire technique due to time constraint and to equally cover the various sectors of people in different professions.
A questionnaire motivates the people to provide complete and accurate information.
Through the questionnaire technique response we plotted the graphs corresponding to the questions asked in the questionnaire. The coverage of the insurance knowledge in different working sectors were determined and the appropriate solutions were suggested.
We suggested there is a need to design products that are priced in such a way that there is enough interest for customers and also or the insurance companies and recruit large number of financial planning advisors to sell the products on a large scale.
We also suggested to increase the number of branches in the city.
Kritiga .B
Savitha.B.K
OPTIMIZATION OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Ms.BHAVYASHREE.M.C
Ms.DEEPA.G
ABSTRACT
Our project is concerned with the construction of a 7-storey building of Nett-Apps ltd, which includes 7 slabs to be casted. This project was carried for Synergy Property Development Services Pvt.Ltd.This project gives the suggestions for the optimal utilization of the resources as well as minimization of the time for construction work.
This project was to be completed within 196 days as per the schedule .The purpose here was to schedule the activities in such a way that the project can be completed well in advance. The resources utilized in the project are studied to trace out the under utilization of the same
We started the project by preparing a schedule for 30 days for each slab for the activities involved in slab work by using Ms Project-2000 software then with that we could arrive at the exact date when the column and shuttering work had to be started in the construction of slab.
By using that date as reference, we divided each slab into 6 parts and by using 6 material sets that is 1 slab material we calculated the number of days required to complete the construction work of the 7 slabs and then by using 1.5 slab material that is by using 9 shuttering material sets with pour to pour gap of 3 & 5 days we calculated the number of days required to complete the construction work.
Then by satisfying the constraints placed, we arrived at 3 different numbers of days required to complete the project. All these were done by the means of color-coding using Ms-Excel.
And then with 30 days schedule as reference we prepared a schedule for 21 days as the time required for each slab construction, which is being currently followed at the site. So we made an attempt to reduce the days required for construction of each slab from 21 days to19 days.
Thus the result of the project is that the total days incurred in the construction of the total building structure is reduced from 196 days to 103 days. This further reduces the cost incurred in the structure work of the building by Rs.20,160/-. The time taken to install all the services in the entire building is also being analyzed and the cost estimate is also made for both the cases.
MANUFACTURING SIMULATION
( of tapered bush )
at
RAPSRI ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES LTD.
RAHUL KUMAR 1DS01IM018
C.P. PAVAN KUMAR 1DS01IM014
PRAVEEN RANJAN 1DS01IM016
ABHIJIT PAKRASHI 1DS99IM001
ABSTRACT
The area of main concern in any organization is those actions, goods or services, which do not add value but consume resources like time, labor, money etc. Such being the case, the organization will experience losses and would not be able to meet customer demands on time, as a result of which its customers would shift to its competitors, for the same services. On the whole, products without value would lead to decrease in profit and increase in expenditure.
Simulation is one of the most powerful tools available to decision-makers responsible for the design and operation of complex processes and systems. It makes possible the study, analysis and evaluation of situations that would not be otherwise possible. In an increasingly competitive world, simulation has become an indispensable problem solving methodology for engineers, designers and managers.
The project began with studying the processes for the products GE-1 and GE-3, (copper tapered bushes), manufactured at RAPSRI Engineering Industries Ltd. after which Simulation Modeling was done, firstly by, collecting data of
Work Stations by means of a Flow Process Chart.
Inter-arrival times and Process time for Individual workstations.
Production Bottlenecks.
Rework quantity and Rejected quantity
This data was then analyzed by means of the Input Analyzer of the Arena 6.0 software package. These results were further made use of as variables in the Simulation Model. The Simulation model was designed using Rockwell Software’s Arena 6.0 application software.
The Model was then run, verified and validated with the data provided by the marketing department for this quarter of the business cycle. The results were then analyzed and interpreted. What-if situations were then run on this systemic model.
The outcome of this, in addition to other practicable suggestions, being
Input analysis of the data for this business quarter for the products GE-1 and GE3.
Simulation Model of the manufacturing and logistics system for the products GE-1 and GE-3.
Results of What if Scenarios and suggestions.
Minimized production bottlenecks.
This Simulation Model will act as the maiden iteration for RAPSRI Engineering Industries Ltd, towards better performance.
