BA5206-Operations Management PDF
BA5206-Operations Management PDF
QUESTION BANK
II SEMESTER
Regulation – 2017
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QUESTION BANK
4 Can you give a detailed outline of the Supply Chain Process in FMCG industry?
5 Can you state the need for demand forecasting? Level 5 Evaluating
Sales in Lakhs 6 8 11 23 29 34 40 45 56
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PART - C
S.No Questions
Potential locations A, B and C have the cost structures shown for producing a product
expected to sell at Rs. 100 per Unit. Find out the most economical location for which each of
the locations would be most economical.
1 Location Fixed Cost /Year Variable Cost /Unit
A 25000 50
B 50000 25
C 80000 15
The table below gives the actual demand in units for the past 10-month period. Compute a
weighted 3 Month Moving Average where the weights are highest for the latest months and
2 descend the order of 3, 2, 1.
Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Demand 100 105 108 110 112 114 120 130 128 140
A department works on 8 hours shift, 250 days a year and has the usage data of a machine as
given below: Determine the number of machines required.
Product Annual Demand (units) Processing Time (Std in Hours)
X 250 3
Y 350 4
Z 425 5
Arun Exports limited is a major garment export house based at New Delhi. The sales figures
(in 1000units) of a particular garment during the past 20 weeks are given in table below:
(i) Calculate the three week moving average22 forecast for the given 20 weeks and also
forecast the demand for 21st week. (5Marks)
(ii) Calculate the weighted moving average forecast for the given 20 weeks with the weights
being W1 =1, W2 =2 and W3 =3. And also forecast the demand for 21st week.(5Marks)
(iii)Find the simple exponential smoothing forecast for all the 20 weeks and also forecast the
demand for 21st week. Assume α = 0.2 and F1 =21. (5Marks)
Week Demand Week Demand
4 1 21 11 19
2 24 12 22
3 18 13 26
4 22 14 24
5 27 15 17
6 23 16 21
7 21 17 29
8 25 18 27
9 27 19 23
10 18 20 25
UNIT – III – DESIGN OR PRODUCT, PROCESS AND WORK SYSTEMS
SYLLABUS: Product Design – Influencing Factors, Approaches, Legal, Ethical and Environmental
Issues. Process – Planning, Selection, Strategy, Major Decisions. Work Study – Objectives,
Procedure. Method Study and Motion Study. Work Measurement and Productivity – Measuring
Productivity and Methods to improve Productivity
PART - A
What facts would you select to show the legal, ethical and
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environmental issues in product design?
PART - C
S.NO QUESTIONS
A component is to be processed on two machines lathe and milling machine. The sequence of
operation is first turning and then milling. Machine Times: Turning: 12 minutes
Milling: 20 minutes
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a) Estimate the number of machines required to machine 2500 components per week if
available machine hours per week are 48.
b) What are the steps that you propose to reduce number of machines?
Prepare a flow process chart for a hospital admission procedure for surgery.
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An industrial engineer, deputed to conduct a time study for a job, has, after observation, divided
the job into 5 elements. He had noted the timings for four cycles of the job as below:
a) Are there any outliers in the data i.e. probable errors in reading or recording data which
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should not be included in the analysis?
b) Compute the basic time for the job and the standard time if a relaxation allowance of 12%, a
contingency allowance of 3% and an incentive of 20% are applicable for the job.
An Industrial Engineer has obtained the following data in connection with a time study on the
lines of the Hawthorne Studies, taking four different elements and five cycle of the job.
Performance
Element Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Cycle 3 Cycle 4 Cycle 5
Rating
A 1.57 1.63 1.48 1.57 1.65 100
(ii) Calculate the standard time for the job, if the permissible allowance is 25% of normal time (7 marks)
UNIT - IV MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
SYLLABUS: Materials Management – Objectives, Planning, Budgeting & Control. Purchasing –
Objectives, Functions, Policies, Vendor Rating & Value Analysis. Store Management – Nature,
Layout, Classification & Coding. Inventory – Objectives, Costs & Control Techniques. Overview of
JIT
PART - A
S.NO QUESTIONS BT LEVEL COMPETENCE
1 Define Just In Time and list the objectives of JIT. Level 1 Remembering
4 Can you list the three vendor rating techniques? Level 4 Analysing
9 How would you apply the steps in lean manufacturing? Level 3 Applying
2 When a company has to apply value analysis and how to apply it?
3 Assume you are a storekeeper of a textile unit. What are your roles and responsibilities?
a) Ashish keeps his inventory in special containers. Each container occupies 10 square feet
of store space. Only 5,000 square feet of the storage space is available. The annual
demand for the inventory item is 9,000 containers, priced at rupees 8 per container. The
ordering cost is estimated at rupees 40 per order and the annual carrying costs amount to
25% of the inventory value. Would you recommend to Ashish to increase his storage
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space? If so, how much should be the increase? (8 Marks)
b) A Company uses annually 12,000 units of raw material costing rupees 1.25 per unit.
Placing each order costs rupee 15 and the carrying cost 15% per year per unit of the
average inventory, find the economic order quantity. (7 Marks)
5 How will you estimate expected time in PERT network? Level 5 Evaluating
Can you assess the tasks that project team must
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perform before the project begins?
7 Define PERT. Level 1 Remembering
8 List the differences between CPM and PERT Level 2 Understanding
16 Can you list the ways of scheduling work centers? Level 4 Analysing
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Part - B Questions BT Level Competence
9 Level 3 Applying
. Given the following information about a Project, you are required to calculate:
1) Find the Total Float for each activity.
2) Critical Path and its duration
Activity Duration Activity Duration
1-2 2 4-6 3
1 1-3 2 5-8 1
1-4 1 6-9 5
2-5 4 7-8 4
3-6 8 8-9 3
3-7 5
Repair work on a flood control dam will require completion of the activities indicated by
the network. Optimistic, most likely and pessimistic estimates (a, m, b) for activity
duration (in weeks) due to weather uncertainty are shown along the activity arrows.
2 (i) Prepare a table showing for each activity early and late start and finish times and
total float.
(ii) Determine the critical path for the project.
(iii) Calculate the probability that the flood control dam will be ready not later than 2
week from its expected completion time
Consider the tasks, durations, and predecessor relationships in the following network.
Draw the network and answer the questions that follow.
(i) What is the variance for activity B?
(ii) Based on the calculation of estimated times, what is the criticalpath?
(iii) What is the estimated time of the critical path?
(iv) What is the probability of completion of the project before week 42?
A small project consists of seven activities for which the relevant data are given below: