In Bangladesh, medial colleges are usually located at the centre of town. Do you think the location is appropriate? Justify your answer.

Justify the statement 'A good layout always ensure minimum material handling'.

A contractor in Chattogram has six jobs awaiting processing. Processing time and due dates are given in Table 3(c).
Set the processing sequence according to i) SPT ii) Slack iii) Critical ratio iv) EDD and evaluate, which sequencing rule the contractor should follow?

Table 3(c)

Usually steam power plants are located beside a river. Do you thing, the location is appropriate? Justify your answer.

In a product layout, space for in-process inventory is always kept narrow. How could you over the limitation using process layout?

Two office manager for the Metro Life Insurance Company orders letterhead stationary from an office products firm in boxes of 500 sheets. The company uses 6500 boxes per year. Annual carrying costs are $3 per box, and ordering costs are$28. The following discount price schedule is provided by the office supply company:

What is the best purchase quantity?

What is ergonomics? Why is ergonomics important?

"Steam power plants are located beside the river". Do you think the location is appropriate? Justify your answer.

Write down the effect of bad layout in any industry.

Consider the following linear programming formation:
$$minimize \ cost =$1X_1 + $2X_2$$
Subject to:
$$X_1 + 3X_2 \geq 90$$
$$8X_1 + 2X_2 \geq 160$$
$$3X_1 + 2X_2 \geq 120$$
$$X_2 \leq 70$$
What is the optimum solution?

What is resource scheduling? Write down the objective of resource scheduling.

Five jobs are to be run-first on process I then on process II. The jobs are listed below with their time requirement on the two processes.

• Sequence the jobs by Johnson's method so that the total flow time and idle time will be minimized.
• Show the sequence and durations on a bar chart, and indicate the time at which each will be completed.

Describe product layout, process layout and fixed position layout with examples. What are the consequences of bad layout?

Describe product layout, process layout and fixed position layout with examples. What are the effects of bad layout?

What is unit load? What are the advantages and disadvantages of it in material handling?

What is ergonomics? Explain the importance of the body movement and posture in the context of Ergonomics.