B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering · Semester 8 — Electives

Farm Machinery Design and Production

FMPE8.4 Farm Machinery & Power Engineering

Syllabus lecture plan

1. 01Introduction to design parameters of agricultural machines and design 2 procedure
2. 02Characteristics of farm machinery design, research and development aspects 3 of farm machinery
3. 03Introduction to safety in power transmission
4. 04Design of standard power transmission components used in agricultural 2 machines: mechanical and hydraulic units
5. 05Application of design principles to the systems of selected farm machines such 5 as design of disc plough, cultivator, seed drill, reaper, thresher and digger
6. 06Critical appraisal in production of agricultural machinery
7. 07Advances in material used for agricultural machinery
8. 08Cutting tools including CNC tools and finishing tools
9. 09Heat treatment of steels including pack carburizing, shot pining process, etc., 3 limits, fits and tolerances, jigs and fixtures
10. 10Industrial lay-out planning
11. 12Economics of process selection
12. 13Familiarization with project report

Part of the B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering curriculum (ICAR recommendations). Upload or find notes, previous-year papers and quick-revision reels for each lecture on theciae.