KERALA PSC / SYLLABUS SENIOR MECHANIC HARBOUR ENGINEERING (CATEGORY NO. 79/2012)

FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING MAIN TOPICS OF 

PROGRAMME NO. 06/2014 (Item No.6) 

SYLLABUS SENIOR MECHANIC 

HARBOUR ENGINEERING 

 (CATEGORY NO. 79/2012) 

Part-I Questions based on Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
I. INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
Principles of management: Meaning of management – Taylor’s scientific.
management, Functions of management – Different types of ownership –
Organizational structure.
The principles of a good wage payment system: Types of wages – Nominal, real,
living, fair, and minimum wages – Incentives
Quality Planning and its developments: Definitions of quality– Dimensions of
quality– TQM concept
 Project Management Techniques: Introduction to Network analysis – Commonly
used terms in CPM and PERT – CPM – Operation, earliest finish time (EFT), latest
finish time (LFT), critical path, event, slack or float, dummy activity – Construction
and numbering of network diagram – Fulkerson's rule – Simple problems on CPM (by
AOA method only) – PERT - Comparison between CPM and PERT – Calculation of
expected time – Event, activity, successor event, predecessor event, earliest expected
time, latest allowable time, slack.
Quantitative techniques in management: Methods –Linear programming: -
Formulation of LPP –Transportation problem – North West corner rule, Vogel's
approximation method – Simple problems. – Game theory – Two-persons zero sum
game – Maxi-min and mini-max principle – Saddle point – simple problems.
Materials and sales management.
Inventory management –definition and classification –purchase procedure –buying
techniques –EOQ and ABC analysis.
Stores management –introduction –store keeping functions –duties of store keeper –
store layout
Centralized and decentralized store –store records –indent forms –bincard –store
ledger.

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