WORK STUDY REVIEWER

1. A work sampling study was conducted on a particular machine and the result is
provided in the tally sheet below:

No. of
Observations
Running 28
Idle
Broken 6
Out of stock 11
Others 5
At 95% confidence level, the machine is expected to run between __________%
and _________ % of an 8-hour work-shift. Round off final answers to 2 decimal
places.

A. 42.24% & 64.31% C. 41.34% & 67.48%

B. 42.24% & 69.76% D. 40.27% & 63.86%

2. A time study was performed on a particular machine, the results of which are as
follows:
Mean manual effort time per cycle : 6.53 minutes
Mean cutting time (power feed) : 4.36 minutes
Mean performance rating: 115%
Machine allowance (power feed) : 10%
Fatigue allowance: 15%
Compute the standard time for the operation. Round off final answer to 2
decimal places.

A. 12.13 mins C. 13.43 mins

B. 11.33 mins D. 14.42 mins
3. A manual operation has been introduced in the plant and subsequently its
standard time is determined to be 0.2 min. A new operator was assigned to the
operation and it took him 0.4 minutes to the make the 1 st unit. The 16th unit took
him 0.3 minutes to make. Working at this rate, how long will it take (in minutes)
for the operator to reach the standard time? Round off final answer to 1 decimal
place.

A. 177.7 minutes C. 174.3 minutes

B. 176.4 minutes D. 178.7 minutes

4. What is another name for Time Study?

A. Ergonomics C. Methods Engineering

B. Work Measurement D. Work Design

5. A worker is shoveling sand at a rate of 8 kcal/min. How much rest does he need
during an 8-hour shift? How should the rest be allocated? Round off your answer
to 3 decimal places.

A. 3.104 C. 3.321
B. 3.018 D. 3.202

6. What is the combined noise level of two sounds of 86 and 96 dB?

Round off final answer to 1 decimal place.

A. 80.34 dB C. 88.57 dB
B. 96.40 dB D. 94.36 dB

7. A study reveals that a group of three semiautomatic machines assigned to one

operator operates unattended 80 percent of the time. Operator service time at
irregular intervals averages 30 percent of the time on these three machines.
What would be the estimated machine hours lost per eight-hour day because of
lack of an operator? Round off answers to 3 decimal places.

A. 1.684 hours C. 1.944 hours

B. 1.285 hours D. 1.257 hours

8. The following data were collected by an intern working at the Mole Hill Ski Resort
regarding the efficiency of the V-8 Ford engine that was used to power the rope
tow for the bunny slope. Management would like to know how many hours of
service they can expect to achieve out of their obviously failing engine out of a
 typical 16 hour skiing day. After studying the data, you can state with 95%
confidence that the engine will be able to run for ________ hours ± _________
hours of a 16 hour day.
Running on 8 cylinders IIIII
Running on 7 cylinders IIIII IIIII II
Running on 6 cylinders IIIII IIIII IIIII II
Not running, engine clogged IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII II
Round off your answers to two (2) decimal places.

A. 8.83 ± 1.89 C. 8.92 ± 1.99

B. 8.72 ± 1.79 D. 8.64 ± 1.39

9. The analyst in the Dorben Company wishes to assign a number of similar

facilities to an operator, based on minimizing the cost per unit of output. A
detailed study of the facilities reveals the following:

Loading machine standard time = 0.34 minute

Unloading machine standard time = 0.26 minute
Walk time between two machines = 0.06 minute
Operator rate = $12.00 per hour
Machine rate (both idle and working) = $18.00 per hour
Power feed time = 1.48 minutes

How many of these machines should be assigned to each operator? Round off
final answer to whole number.

A. 1 C. 3
B. 2 D. 4

10. In the Dorben Company, a materials handling operation in the warehouse is

being done by hand labor. Annual disbursements for this labor and for related
expenses (social security, accident insurance, and other fringe benefits) are
$8,200. The methods analyst is considering a proposal to build certain equipment
to reduce this labor cost. The first cost of this equipment will be $15,000. It is
estimated that the equipment will reduce annual disbursements for labor and
labor extras to $3,300. Annual payments for power, maintenance, and property
taxes plus insurance are estimated to be $400, $1,100, $300, respectively. The
need for this particular operation is anticipated to continue for 10 years. Because
the equipment is specially designed for the particular purpose, it will have no
salvage value. It is assumed that the annual disbursements for labor, power, and
maintenance will be uniform throughout the 10 years. The minimum rate of return
before taxes is 10 percent. Based on an annual cost comparison, should the
 company proceed with the new material handling equipment? Show complete
solution for justification.

11. Who are the founders of the motion study technique?

12. The machining time per piece is 0.164 hours and the machine loading time is
0.038 hours. With an operator rate of $12.80 per hour and a machine rate of $14
per hour, calculate the optimum number of machines for lowest cost per unit of
output.

A. $3.46 C. $3.35
B. $3.27 D. $3.18

13. What proportion of machine time would be lost in operating four machines when
the machine operates 70 percent of the time unattended and the operator
attention time at irregular intervals averages 30 percent? Is this the best
arrangement on the basis of minimizing the proportion of machine time lost?

14. An ergonomist suggests replacing two mail clerks, each of whom sorts 3,000
pieces/h and gets paid $10 per hour, with a machine vision system that can sort
6,000 pieces/h but costs $1 per hour to maintain and $50,000 to purchase. How
many hours would it take to pay off the system? Round off your final answer to 1
decimal point

A. 2,541.5 hours C. 2,538.4 hours

B. 2,631.6 hours D. 2,742.7 hours

15. Given the following operations and unit times in minutes (#1 = 1.5, #2 = 3, #3 = 1,
#4 = 2, #5 = 4), balance the production line with the goal of producing 30 units/hr.

2 4

3 5

A. 6 stations B. 5 stations
 C. 4 stations D. 3 stations

16. What basic motion generally precedes ‘reach’?

A. Grip C. Release
B. Hold D. Follow

17. What is control movement without system response known as?

A. Deadair C. Idle
B. Deadspace D. Rest

18. True or False. According to the present OSHA law, two hours of a 100 dBA
sound level would be permissible in an 8-hour shift.

19. What is WBGT?

A. Wet Bill Global C. Wait Browse Ground

Technique Train
B. Wet Bulb Globe D. Wet Bulb Global
Temperature Temperature

20. What is the WBGT with a dry-bulb temperature of 80 oF, a wet-bulb temperature
of 70oF, and a globe temperature of 100oF? Assuming indoor conditions with no
solar load.

A. 77oF C. 79oF
B. 75oF D. 74oF

21. What is the combined noise level of two sounds of 86 and 96 decibels?

A. 94.3 dB C. 96.4 dB
B. 95.4 dB D. 97.3 dB

22. What is the contrast created by black text (reflectance=10%) on white paper
(reflectance=90%)?

A. 0.75 C. 0.85
B. 0.79 D. 0.89
23. True or False. Poor standards mean that some are too ‘tight’ and other are too
‘loose’. Those operators with tight standards will complain and cause problems.
Operators with loose standards will not be working atthe true standard and the
company will loose money.

24. True or False. Under the Westinghouse rating system, Conditions, such as
temperature, humidity, etc., are evaluated because if they are different from what
is normally found at the workstation, operator performance will be affected.

25. What fatigue allowance should be given to a job if it developed that it took 1.542
minutes to perform the operation at the end of continuous work and but 1.480
minutes at the beginning of continuous work?

26. In an assembly process involving six distinct operations, it is necessary to

produce 250 units per eight-hour day. The measured operation times are as
follows:

a. 7.56 minutes. d. 1.58 minutes.

b. 4.25 minutes. e. 3.72 minutes.
c. 12.11 minutes f. 8.44 minutes.

How many operators would be required at 80 percent efficiency? How many

operators will be utilized at each of the six operations?

27. A current problem in the U.S. Army is the neck/shoulder fatigue experienced by
helicopter pilots. To be able to fly missions at night, the pilots wear night vision
goggles, which are attached to the front of the helmet. Unfortunately, these are
fairly heavy, causing a large downward torque of the head, which must be
counteracted by the neck muscles, which then fatigue. To alleviate this problem,
many pilots have started attaching random lead weights to the back of the
helmet. Find the appropriate weight that would best balance the head and
minimize neck fatigue. Assumptions: a) cg of goggles is 8 inches in front of neck
pivot point, b) goggles weigh 2 lbs., c) max volitional neck torque is 480 in lbs., d)
cg of lead weight is 5 inches behind neck pivot point, e) bare helmet weighs 4
lbs., and f) cg of helmet is 0.5 inches in front of neck pivot.

A. 4.21 C. 4.08
B. 3.82 D. 3.60
28. How much capital could be invested in a new method if it is estimated that
$5,000 would be saved the first year, $10,000 the second year, and $3,000 the
third year? Management expects a 30 percent return on invested capital.

A. $11,128 C. $10,149
B. $12,134 D. $11,218

29. The following data resulted from a time study taken on a horizontal milling
machine:
Mean manual effort time per cycle: 4.62 minutes.
Mean cutting time (power feed): 3.74 minutes.
Mean performance rating: 115%
Machine allowance (power feed): 10 percent.
Fatigue allowance: 15 percent.
What is the standard time for the operation?

A. 10.248 mins C. 10.224 mins

B. 10.128 mins D. 10.254 mins

30. A work measurement analyst in the Dorben Company took 10 observations of a

high-production job. He performance rated each cycle and then computed the
mean normal time for each element. The element with the greatest dispersion
had a mean of 0.30 minutes and a standard deviation of 0.03 minutes. If it is
desirable to have sampled data within ±5 percent of the true data, how many
observations should this time study analyst take of this operation?

A. 26 cycles C. 28 cycles
B. 27 cycles D. 29 cycles

31. Establish the money rate per hundred pieces from the following data:
Cycle time (averaged measured time): 1.23 minutes
Base rate: $8.60 per hour. Pieces per cycle: 4.
Machine time (power feed): 0.52 minutes per cycle.
Allowance: 17 percent on effort time; 12 percent on power feed time.
Performance rating: 88%
 A. $4.7047 C. $4.6874
B. $4.3817 D. $4.8047

32. Express the standard of 5.761 minutes in hours per hundred pieces. What would
the operator's efficiency be if 92 pieces were completed during a working day?
What would his efficiency be if he set up his machine (standard for setup = 0.45
hours) and produced 80 pieces during the eight-hour workday?

33. How long would it take to turn 6 inches of 1-inch bar stock on a No. 3 W. & S.
turret lathe running at 300 feet per minute and feeding at the rate of 0.005 inch
per revolution?

A. 1.025 C. 1.047
B. 1.054 D. 1.042

34. The Dorben Company is using the work sampling technique to establish
standards in its typing pool section. This pool has varied responsibilities,
including typing from tape recordings, filing, Kardex posting, and copying. The
pool has six typists who work a 40-hour week. Seventeen hundred random
observations were made over a four-week period. During the period, the typists
produced 9.001 pages of routine typing. Of the random observations, 1,225
showed that typing was taking place. Assuming a 20 percent allowance and an
adjusted performance rating factor of 0.85, calculate the hourly standard per
page of typing.

A. 0.07489 hrs/page C. 0.07844 hrs/page

B. 0.07524 hrs/page D. 0.07962 hrs/page

35. The Dorben Company is designing a cast-iron part whose strength T is a known
function of the carbon content C, where: T=2C 2+¾C-C3+k. To maximize strength,
what carbon content should be specified?

A. C = 1.6% carbon content C. C = 1.5% carbon content

B. C = 1.7% carbon content D. C = 1.3% carbon content

36. What would be the required number of readings if the analyst wanted to be 87
percent confident that the mean observed time was within ±5 percent of the true
mean and he established the following values for an element after observing 19
cycles: 0.09, 0.08, 0.10, 0.12, 0.09, 0.08, 0.09, 0.12, 0.11, 0.12, 0.09, 0.10, 0.12,
0.10, 0.08, 0.09, 0.10, 0.12, 0.09?
 A. 22 C. 24
B. 21 D. 23

37. The following data resulted from a study taken on a horizontal milling machine:
Pieces produced per cycle: 8.
Average measured cycle time: 8.36 minutes.
Average measured effort time per cycle: 4.62 minutes.
Average rapid traverse time: 0.08 minutes.
Average cutting time power feed: 3.66 minutes.
Performance rating: 115 percent.
Allowance (machine time): 10 percent.
Allowance (manual time): 15 percent.
The operator works on the job a full eight-hour day and produces 380
pieces.
How many standard hours does the operator earn? What is her efficiency
for the eight-hour day?

A. 8.484 hours; 100.5 %

B. 8.094 hours; 101.2 %
C. 8.104 hours; 98.3 %
D. 8.534 hours; 97.5 %

38. Operators assemble pumps at an hourly rate of $10.00. The standard time for the
assembly is 20 minutes. Direct material costs are $19.50/pump. Indirect labor
and other overhead is calculated simply at a rate of $5.00/hr, while general office
expenses are calculated at a rate of $2.00/hr. What is the factory cost for one
pump?

A. $25.17 C. $23.16
B. $24.58 D. $26.47

39. Workers new to carburetor assembly take 15 minutes to complete their first
assembly. Assuming a 95% learning curve, how long would it take them to reach
a standard time of 10 minutes?

A. 23.22 hours C. 27.48 hours

B. 25.69 hours D. 28.75 hours