36 PA113 Methods Engineering I

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING
COLLEGE OF CHEMICAL AND TEXTILE ENGINEERING
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM
PA113 – METHODS ENGINEERING I
I. GENERAL INFORMATION
CODE : PA113 Methods Engineering I
SEMESTER : 7
CREDITS : 4
HOURS PER WEEK : 5 (Theory – Practice)
PREREQUISITES : MA612 Statistics and Design of Experiments
CONDITION : Compulsory
II. COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course trains students in the recognition of productive processes carried out in the different types
of companies, in order analyze the human work and prepare methods for the improving the production
and the productivity. Learning units: Enterprise, production systems, company productivity. Techniques
for reducing the work content. Work study, method study. Process operation diagram. Process analysis
diagram. Operation analysis and work methods improvement. Man-machine diagram and the operator’s
process. Station distribution. Study of motions. Rout sheet and ergonomics.
III. COURSE OUTCOMES

1. Analyze and assess the utilization of organizational resources of an enterprise. Learn the
several production systems applied in enterprises. Get into the significance of organizational
productivity. Study the ways of improving productivity.
2. Study the element defining the contents of a work, with emphasis in the human work. Analyze
the work contents and management techniques for removing or minimizing the non-productive
content.
3. Study every single of the 10 primary approaches that form part of the operations making up the
execution of a work. Analyze every single of the approaches in order to obtain the removal or
improvement or improvement of the operations making it up. Learn the principles and standards
to deal with problems about material and objects manipulation in and work environment. Apply
the techniques allowing to reduce displacements in a work environment seeking the best plant
distribution.
4. Learn and apply graphic and quantitative techniques allowing to improve the job. Analyze lines
of work in a productive center in order to manage a better equilibrium. Learn and analyze
principles and laws of economy of motion. Study the ergonomics as factor related to the job.
Study the fundamental operations made by an operator in his/her job, elaborate the diagram
and apply technique that permit to improve it. Study the Therblighs to relate them with the
operator’s diagram. Learn the elaboration and application of the rout sheet.
IV. LEARNING UNITS
1. ENTERPRISE, PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, PRODUCTIVITY / 12 HOURS

Enterprise and production systems: principles of the concept of enterprise, types, industry classification,
materials that enter and come out of the process, production systems.
Business productivity: productivity, types and characteristics, resources at the enterprise’s disposal,
systemic production, aggregate value, indicators of productivity. Symptoms of productivity problems in
enterprises.
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2. WORK CONTENT, WORK STUDY, METHOD STUDY / 12 HOURS
Basic content of work, factors increasing BCW. Techniques for reducing BCW: Reduction of work
content inherent in the product, due to the process or the method, reduction of non-productive time
attributable to the management and to the worker.
Work study: Definition, scope, objectives and usefulness, basic procedure for the work study.
Method study: Definition and purpose, basic procedure for the method study, selection, analysis and
development of new methods, main activities, basic symbology.
3. GRAPHIC MEANS FOR THE METHOD ANALYSIS / 18 HOURS

Graphic means for the method analysis: general, Diagram for Process operation DPO: Agreements for
its elaboration, use of the diagram, exercises. Diagrams for Process Analysis DPA: Agreements for its
elaboration, use of the diagram, exercises. Flow diagram: generals, use. Workers displacement at the
workshop: String diagram, flow graph, multiple activities diagram.
4. OPERATION ANALYSIS AND MATERIALS MANIPULATION, PLANT DISSPOSITION / 18

HOURS
Operation analysis: generals, the 10 primary reports, materials manipulation: principles, standards for
facing manipulation problems, use of equipment. Factory disposition: definition, importance of the
disposition according the industries, flow patterns, disposition according to activities, according to cost
table, advantages and disadvantages.
5. MAN-MACHINE DIAGRAM / 12 HOURS

Man-machine diagram: general, elaboration and usefulness; Process diagram for a group or a team of
operators, quantitative techniques for assessing the relationship man-machine. Operator’s process
diagram: general, elaboration of the diagram, utilization of the diagram. Therbligs of basic motions, the
bimanual diagram.
6. STUDY OF MOTIONS / 6 HOURS

Study of motion: fundamental motions, definition of basic work divisions, Therbligs: principles and
explanation of motion economy laws, use of the human body, disposition and conditions of the
workplace.
7. EQUILIBRIUM OF LINES OF WORK, ROPUT SHEET AND ERGONOMICS / 12 HOURS

Equilibrium of line of work: general, balance of lines considering operators assigned to a unit,
considering times assigned to operations, balance of lines of assembly, considering the formation of
work stations; knowing the number of stations to be assigned work elements to themselves.
Ergonomics. Work physiology, biomechanics, workplace design, human factors / Behavior, list of
ergonomic check. Rout sheet: definition, elaboration.
V. LABORATORIES AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES

All theory sessions will be complemented with practical exercises about solved problems; as well as,
lab work carried out at lab rooms and a final research paper.
VI. METHODOLOGY
Motivation, explanation, reflection and exemplification will be employed, as well as debates and
dialogues about cases and presented topics; Applicative cases will be solved to reinforce teaching.
VII. EVALUATION FORMULA

The average grade PF is calculated as follows:
PF = (PP + PL + EP + EF)/4
EP: Mid-Term Exam EF: Final Exam
PP: Quizzes average PL: Lab average
VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. INTERNATIONAL WORK OFFICE, GENEVA
Introduction to Work study (Spanish), 4th edition
2. ROBERTO GARCÍA CRIOLLO

Work Study, Methods Engineering (Spanish)
McGraw Hill Editorial, 2th edition (2009)
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING

COLLEGE OF CHEMICAL AND TEXTILE ENGINEERING

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM

PA113 – METHODS ENGINEERING I

II. COURSE DESCRIPTION

III. COURSE OUTCOMES

IV. LEARNING UNITS

1. ENTERPRISE, PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, PRODUCTIVITY / 12 HOURS

3. GRAPHIC MEANS FOR THE METHOD ANALYSIS / 18 HOURS

4. OPERATION ANALYSIS AND MATERIALS MANIPULATION, PLANT DISSPOSITION / 18

5. MAN-MACHINE DIAGRAM / 12 HOURS

6. STUDY OF MOTIONS / 6 HOURS

7. EQUILIBRIUM OF LINES OF WORK, ROPUT SHEET AND ERGONOMICS / 12 HOURS

V. LABORATORIES AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES

VII. EVALUATION FORMULA

2. ROBERTO GARCÍA CRIOLLO

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