Applied Engineering Technology is the achievement of design gain through the evaluation and monitoring of component manufacture by modern technological equipment in the workplace and so allowing new methodology to be developed.
The subject includes considerations of flow and handling of materials; automatic machines; management techniques to reduce work content and ineffective time;. movements of workers in the shop; factory organisation; design and location of a factory; the elements of costs; factory organisation in conjunction with the costing system; purchasing procedure; stores routine (buying and store keeping); labour (employment, time-keeping and time-booking, methods of remuneration); wages; overheads (depreciation and interest on capital); contract costs; factory job cost accounting; estimating and planning; personnel administration; incentive schemes.