UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
Mechanical & Production Engineering Department
PROJECT SYNOPSIS

Tentative Project Title:

Student Name:
E.mail:
UoM ID:
Programme Of Study:
Supervisor: Dr. S. Venkannah

Introduction
An introduction to the company and problem and how the project will help the company or the
customers. You can mention international or local competition, increasing cost of productions,
lack of human resources. Then you link it to section below by including a sentence such as
many companies are trying to review their production methods/ optimise their systems to lower
cost of production and ......
Company Background
ABCD company is involved in It forms part of the EFG group of companies and consists
of a few departments where ..
The company has investigated the current manufacturing system and has identified a few
problems
Problem Description
This project will focus on the XXX department..(Give a layout and details of the Dept)

Problems encountered with the current system

o Increasing cost of energy
o Problems with quality- lots of rejects or reworks
o Too much human intervention and leading to Human errors

o Approximate parameter settings by human operators

Aim(s) of the Project

Give the main aim of the project

OBJECTIVES
Some objectives that may be achieved are listed below:

Design or Redesign of the production/processing system

Improve the operational efficiency
Reduce energy consumption
Improve quality of products
Provide an automatic control of the system
Include a user friendly Human Machine Interface
Include equipment supports for control and safety
Integrate protecting functions and reducing operational risks
Reduce manual intervention

Proposed Methodology
The proposed system will be implemented as follows:

Data collection and analysis of actual system

Determine requirements and specifications of system
Conceptual designs and Proposed solution
Component selection
Programming and Simulation
Implementation and testing
Cost analysis

Time Frame Gantt Chart

For example but should include the points mentioned in the proposed methodology above
Aug
Data Collection

Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

March

Analysis of actual system

Conceptual design
Proposed Solution
Component Selection &
Order
Programming and Testing
Implementation
Cost Analysis
Report writing
COSTING:
(Only Cost to be borne by University of Mauritius) Or you may add Cost to be borne by
Company for industrial projects.
REFERENCES:
Use Harvard system of referencing. Check UoM website for details

Students Signature:

Date:

Supervisors Signature:

Date:

Site Supervisors Signature: (If any but it is good to have one as he will be the contact
person and responsible for you while you are on their premises)
Date:

Received by Programme Coordinator:

Date: