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Welcome to the court of Emperor

Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar


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!?!!

??

Why everyones

quiet?

Birbal! I am

surprised that youtoo have become

silent!!

Your Majesty, I

have six ideas

which can reduce

the costof a

sword by atleast

Rs.20 without

compromisingthe

functionalrequirements.

Brilliant!.

Tell us those

ideas.


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Presently,

the hilt has

7 parts.

The

proposeddesign will

have 4 .

Existing Design

7 parts

New Idea

4 parts

Part Count

Reduction


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For the new hilt,

instead of designing

exclusive rivets, we

can use the rivets of

daggers.

Part

Commonisatio

n

x


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When the Shah of

Persia was our Guest

last month ,I observed that the

hilt in his sword does

not have a curved

portion. We can

design similar hilts

for our experiencedsoldiers.

Benchmarking

New IdeaExisting Design

Curved portion


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Alternate

Material

Blade

Sheath

Copper Steel

The sheath

which houses

the blade ismade of copper

now.

We can switch

over to Alloy

steel which is

cheaper.


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Yield

ImprovementThe curved

blade design is

yielding only 2pieces per die. If

a straight blade

is designed, we

can extract 3

pieces per die.

2 Blades 3 Blades



Your majesty. The

present design is being

used since the time of

Babur

without any failure.

We should not risk any

design change.

Saheb, there is nodoubt that the

present sword

designed by you for

my Grandfathers

army is superior.

However, let us testthis new design in

our barracks.If they

passthe tests, we

will deploy them in

the battle field.If the ideas pass

the test, we cansave atleast Rs.

Ten Lakhs this

year, thus serving

the purposeof

cost reduction.

There is an

advantagealso.

I do not have to

increase the tax.



Birbal! I wonder

how you developed

these ideas! Isthere a systematic

way by which

others can also be

trained to generate

such ideas.

Yes, your Majesty.

With the help of Functional Analysis

System Technique(FAST)any body

can generate such ideas. FAST is apowerful tool used in Value

Engineering (VE) which is an

extremely effective system to

improve products and services for

cost and productivity improvement.

If six ideas for the

sword itself can

save Rs. Ten lakhs ,

imagine how muchmoney we can save

on other weapons

like spears, arrows

and cannons etc.



Birbal! There are four divisions in my

army Infantry, Cavalry,Artillery and

Elephant brigade. I want you to teachthe engineers in each of these

divisions the application of Value

Engineering (VE), especially the

Functional Analysis System

Technique(FAST).Each division should

release Armoury Change Requests

(ACRs) for the worth of Rs.25 lakh.

Yes, yourMajesty.

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