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Assignment - A
Question 2. What are the two basic production systems? Explain their characteristics ad
vantages and disadvantages.
Question 3. Explain with a suitable example the factors that are to be taken into account
for plant location.
Question 4. What are the principles of plant layout? Explain the different layouts used in
industries. What are the advantages of each type of layout?
Assignment - B
Question 1a) What is a sequencing problem? What are the assumptions generally made in
solvingsequencing problems?
Question 1b) There are six jobs that must go through two machines A and B in the order
A, B. Process time in hours is given below.
Machine- A 6 10 5 11 12 8
Machine- B 8 15 9 14 13 11
Find out the job sequence that reduces total processing time. Also find out the idling
time.
Question 2a) What is econo mic order quantity? Der ive the EOQ formula. List the
assumptions and limitations of EOQ.
Question 2b) The annual demand for an item is 25,000. The cost of placing an order is
Rs. 100/- and the inventory carrying cost is 25 percent. The unit price of the item is Rs.
10/-. Find the EOQ.
Question 3 An electric fan company manufactures both ceiling and table fans. Resource
requirements for both these two items with corresponding revenues are indicated in the
following table.
Product Labour hour per Unit Raw material per unit (kg) Profit per unit in Rupees
Table Fan 2 8 80
Ceiling
4 6 100
Fan
The company can make available 80 hours of labour and 240 kgs. of raw material. How
many table and ceiling fans are to be produced to maximize profit?
Case Study
WASHDRY COMPANY
The Washdry Co mpany manu factures several mo dels of washers and dryers. The
projected monthwise requirements over the next year for their automatic washers are:
Month 1 2 3 4 5 6
Month 7 8 9 10 11 12
Current inventory is 100 units. The firm current capacity is 960 units per month. The
average salar y of production workers is Rs. 1200/- per month. Each production worker
accounts for 30 units per month. Overtime is paid at one and half up to 20% additional
time. Additional labour can be hired for a training cost of Rs. 250/- and existing wo rkers
can be laid off at a cost of Rs. 500/-. Any increase o r decrease in pro duction rate costs
Rs. 5000/- for tooling, set up and line charges. This does not however apply to overtime.
Inventory ho ld ing costs are Rs. 25/- per unit per month. Back order cost is Rs. 75/- per
unit short.
Question 1. Using chase or level plan determines the next year productio n p lan that
minimizes total production cost.
Assignment - C
1. Which one of the following is not a typical question dealt with any operations
manager?
(a) How much capacity will be needed in the months ahead?
(b) What is a satisfactory location for a new facility?
(c) How to motivate emplo yees?
(d) All of the above
8. Which of the following is a true statement concerning the relationship between holding
costs and ordering costs in the basic EOQ Model?
(a) The two are always equal at EOQ
(b) Holding cost is sometimes equal to ordering cost and sometimes greater at EOQ
(c) Holding cost is sometimes equal to ordering cost and sometimes less at EOQ
(d) Holding cost is always greater than ordering cost at EOQ
9. Which one of the following is not a basic option for altering capacity?
(a) Hire and fire workers
(b) Use overtime
(c) Use subco ntracting
(d) Use backorders
11. In a general sense, Quality may be defined as meeting or exceeding the expectations
of the customer. Identify which one of the following is a typical customer expectation?
(a) Conformance to specification
(b) Value
(b) Support
(d) All of the above
13. A control chart typically does NOT show which of the following values:
(a) Central line
(b) Outer line
(c) Upper co ntrol limit
(d) Lower control limit
14. Acceptance sampling is used for all but which one of these:
(a) Inco ming raw material
(b) Work-in-process
(c) Finish goods
(d) Incoming purchased parts
15. All of the following are true statements about using Johnson's rule except:
(a) Idle time on second machine is min imized
(b) The sequence of jobs at the two workstations should be identical
(c) Capacity utilization is minimized
(d) Jobs must have known processing time
18. The work measurement method that is NOT usually used for setting standards for
repetitive well defined job is:
19. If inputs decrease while out put remains constant, what will happen to productivity?
(a) It will increase
(b) It will decrease
(c) It is impossible to tell
(d) It will remain same
22. Decisions that tends to focus on the entire organization, cutting across departments,
and have long-term consequences are called:
(a) Departmental
(b) Tactical
(c) Strategic
(d) Operational
23. __________ are the fundamental activities that organizations use to do work and
achieve their goal.
(a) Processes
(b) Operations
(c) Methods
(d) Procedures
24. Long-term capacity planning deals with what of the following factors:
( a ) Invest in new facilities
(b) Work force size
(c) Inventories
(d) Overtime budgets
25. When production volume is low and customization is high a _____ layout is
indicative.
(a) Flexib le flow
(b) Line flow
(c) Fixed position
(d) Cycle time
26. There are four major phases in a project life cycle. Which of the following is not a
phase?
(a) Termination
(b) Executio n
(c) Planning
(d) Maturity
28. An appliance manufacturer initiates a production plan that gets translated into an
operational plan is called:
(a) Business plan
(b) Staffing plan
(c) Master prod uction schedule
(d) Work force schedule
(a) Demand
(b) Lead time
(c) Supply
(d) All of the above