M.B.A. Degree Examination, 2013: 273. Production Planning, Control and Maintenance
M.B.A. Degree Examination, 2013: 273. Production Planning, Control and Maintenance
SECTION – A (5 × 5 = 25)
2. Loading.
3. PERT.
4. Johnson’s rule.
5. Trend extrapolation.
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8. Breakdown maintenance. 14. What are the merits and demerits of the
Transportation Problem method of aggregate
SECTION – B (3 × 15 =45) planning?
Answer any THREE questions. 15. What are the merits of having a job-order type
ALL questions carry EQUAL marks. system of production and of a line production?
9. To make PPC truly integrative, what pre- How would you design a system which may get
requisities are necessary? the good points of both? What might be the pre-
conditions for such a novel system?
10. What are the criteria on the basis of which you
assess the different forecasting methods? 16. W h a t a r e t h e m e r i t s a n d d e m e r i t s o f
‘narrow’band of control limits and of ‘wider’
11. Under what conditions are the assumptions of band of control limits?
a Poisson distribution valid for the c-chart?
SECTION – D (15)
12. “Safety stock and EOQ concepts are inimical
to be MRP system”. Discuss. Compulsory Case Study:
13. What is the role of MIS in the successful 17. When a product is being produced
implementation of MRP? continuously, accumulating a batch of the
products for acceptance or rejection later may
not be a very good idea. For such a continuous
production process, what kind of an acceptance
sampling procedure do you suggests? Explain
your rationale.
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