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DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE 2010 Second Semester BA 9221 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (Regulation 2009) (Use of normal probabilities permitted) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks Answer ALL Questions PART A (10 2 = 20 Marks) 1. What do you mean control decisions? 2. Define the term Production sharing. 3. What do you understand by Delphi technique? 4. What is capacity requirement planning? 5. What do you mean by simultaneous engineering? 6. What is SIMO chart? 7. What do you understand by materials management manual? 8. Define the term Re-order point. 9. Mention the objectives of facility layouts. 10. What are the tasks that project team must perform before the project begins? PART B (5 16 = 80 Marks) 11. (a) Explain in detail the various elements of operation strategy.(Marks 16) Or (b) Define Productions system. Explain how the concept of production system helps in understanding of production and operations management.(Marks 16) 12. (a) The past data about the load on a stamping centre are as follows : Month Load, Machine hours May 2009 584 June 2009 610 July 2009 655 August 2009 747 September 2009 862 October 2009 913 November 2009 963 (i) Find an exponential smoothing forecast for the month of December 2009. Take (a =0.33). (ii) Compare your answer with a five month moving average forecast.(Marks 16) Or (b) (i) Explain the activities involved in long range capacity planning

decision. (Marks 8) (ii) Discuss the information flow for planning and control with MRP. (8) 13. (a) (i) Name and describe the steps in developing a new products. What are the key differences between a prototype and a production design? (Marks 10) (ii) Describe the relationship between process design and product design. (Marks 6) Or (b) (i) Explain the steps in determining Labour standards for time studies. (Marks 10) (ii) The Tircon Company pays its workers on a 60% gain sharing plan, with bonus pay beginning at 80% of standard. The standard is 400 units per 40-hour week. Ramesh whose base pay is Rs. 200 per hour, produced 430 units last week. Determine (1) Ramesh's gross pay for the week, (2) Unit labour cost at 60% of the standard and (3) Ramesh's rate of work last week. (Marks 6) 14. (a) (i) Explain the activities and the functions of materials and management. (Marks 8) (ii) Discuss briefly vendor rating and value analysis. (Marks 8) Or (b) (i) Describe the principles of stores layout and various records used in stores. (Marks 8) (ii) The average demand rate for a particular raw material for a company is estimated to be 1000 items per month. The distribution of demand rate is found to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of 200. The average lead time for the procurement of raw material has been observed in the past to be approximately 3 months and the normally approximated lead times have a standard deviation of 1 month. If the service level is to be 95% determine the required level of safety stock in situation where in both demand rate and lead time varies. (Marks 8) 15. (a) (i) What are the three principles of crashing projects? Discuss. (Marks 6) (ii) Horizontal bar charts and other charting techniques offers operation managers macro-control of projects, whereas CPM and PERT offers micro-control. Explain. (Marks 10) Or (b) (i) Describe how managers may simultaneously consider both quantitative and qualitative factors in facility location analysis. (Marks 10) (ii) Explain why we balance production lines. Mention the steps in line balancing. (Marks 6)