Describe the productivity cycle. How does the elements of productivity cycle can be measured?
Draw a project network, determine the critical path, project completion time, find the total float and free float for each activity shown in Table 6(b).
Table 6(b)
What are therbligs? Describe a simo chart in terms of the information it contains.
Why is it important that the analyst describe and record the work method employed by the operator being timed?
What do you understand by supply chain management? What are requirements for a successful supply chain?
Write short notes on 'Flow diagram'.
A company is setting up an assembly line to produce 192 units per 8 hour shift. Activity, task time and immediate predecessor are shown in Table 6(a). Draw a precedence diagram and assign tasks to workstations. Calculate the efficiency also.
Table 6(a)
What is reverse engineering? What are the ethical issues that need to be considered when doing reverse engineering?
What is process improvement? How can you ensure process improvement implementation?
Define the term MPS. Write down the attributes of MPS.
Develop a process chart for making a cup of tea using all the symbols.
Following data were obtained by a work study. Man form a study conducted by hours. (i) Maintenance time: (1) Get out and put away tools = 12 min/day (2) Cleaning and oiling of machine = 10 min/day (3) Replenish coolant supply = 3 min/day (ii) Interruption: (1) Interruption by foreman = 9 min/day (2) Personal time = 26 min/day
Calculate total allowances, total available cycle time productive hours, considering a working day of 8 hours.
What is meant by "Co-efficient of correlation" in forecasting? Using proper diagram, explain how its value can be varied.
What do you understand by the Man-Machine chart? Prepare a Man-Machine chart for Machining of a component.
Room registrations in the Toronto Tower Plaza Hotel have been recorded for the past 9 years. To project future occupancy, management would like to determine the mathematical trend of guest registration. Given the following time-series data, develop a regression equation relating registrations to time. Then forecast 2023 registrations. Room registrations are in the thousands:
What is productivity? What are the productivity improvement techniques?
The following figure shows the BOM of A
A / | \ / | \ B(1) C(2) D(1) | B(1)
MPS for the product A is listed as follows:
Lead time of A is 1 week. Following table shows other information.
Develop MRP for the product B, C, and D.
Define the term productivity. Explain different types of productivity variables that influences in production process.
The following are monthly actual and forecast demand levels for May through December for units of a product manufactured by the N. Tamimi Pharmaceuticals Company:
What is the value of the tracking signal as of the end of December?
How do firms decide what the upper and lower tracking limits should be? Explain.
Define standard time of doing a job. Define allowance factor.
Distinguish between material flow chart and operator process chart.
After a stop watch time study based on 10 cycles, the following results were recorded:
Define productivity. Explain different types of productivity improvement techniques.
Why work study is important to a production manager? Discuss the steps involved in method study.