AKTU Application of Operations Research in Textiles (HTFT801) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Honors Degree in Functional Textiles

Course Outcomes

To study the concept of research and managerial decision making To learn optimization technique, primarily LPP To study application of operations research in textile operations To learn transportation and assignment problems and the optimization techniques To study the concept of inventory management Operation research - Introduction, historical development, phases of operation research study;

Linear programming; graphical method; simplex method; Sensitivity analysis; Duality;

Introduction to goal programming; Application of LPP in yarn production Transportation problem and its application in textile production; Methods of finding an initial solution (North-West Corner; Vogel’s approximation), Methods to get the final solution (MODI and stepping stone), degeneracy, optimum solution Assignment problems, variation in assignment problems, queuing theory Inventory management techniques- selective inventory control: ABC analysis, economic order quantity (EOQ); EOQ models (instantaneous receipt and non-instantaneous receipt);

EOQ models with planned shortage; Inventory policies (Periodic review and Continuous review policies), ordering cost, acquisition cost, inventory carrying cost or holding cost, just in time Information systems for inventory management, store management and merchandising, make or buy decision, analysis of investment in inventory, value analysis and material management; Enterprise resource planning.

Reference Books

Heera D S and Gupta P K, “Operation research”, Ist Ed., S Chand and Co., Delhi, 1997.

Taha H, “Operation research”, 6th Ed., Prentice Hall of India, Delhi, 1997.

Verma A P, “Operation research”, Ist Edition, S K Kataria and Sons, Delhi, 1998.

Menon K S, “Purchasing and inventory control”, 3rd Ed., Wheeler Publishing House, N.

Delhi, 1997.

Ahuja K K, “Production management”, Ist Ed., CBS Publishers and Distributors, Delhi, Christopher M, “Logistics and supply chain management”, Pitman Publishing, UK, 1992.

Ghosh A, Mal P, Majumdar A, Advanced Optimization and Decision-Making Techniques in Textile Manufacturing, Taylor and Francis, 2020.