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Assignment A
Marks 10
Answer all questions.
1. a) Explain the forecasting process? What are the techniques for monitoring forecasts?
b) Explain various forecasting models.
2. a) What is aggregate production plan? What are the pure strategies for APP?
b) The demand and capacities for production of company is given below. Demand for
January, February and March are 900, 300 and 700 respectively. The production
capacities for each of the month are given below.
January February March
Regular time 600 300 200
Over time 300 300 300
Sub contracted 500 500 500
The production cost per unit during regular time is Rs 60, during over time is Rs 70, and
the sub contracted cost is Rs 72. The cost of carrying inventory is Rs 5 per unit per
month. The cost of unused regular time capacity is Rs 15. Find the optimum production
plan using transportation model.
4. a) Explain Materials Requirement Planning. What are the inputs and outputs of MRP?
b) Explain the various Lot sizing techniques.
5.a) Explain assembly line balancing clearly defining various terminologies like cycle time,
precedence diagram, work stations, efficiency, utilization, balance delay, etc.
b) Explain the key elements to successful JIT.
Assignment B
Marks 10
Answer all questions.
Questions:
a) What is the desired cycle time?
b) What is the theoretical minimum number of work stations?
c) Use the largest work element time rule to work out a solution.
d) What are the idle time, efficiency and balance delay for the solution?
b) A laundry has three operations washing drying and ironing for the linen it receives from
various customers. The laundry has 7 jobs at hand to be sequenced for the three
activities. The activity times for the various jobs on hand is given in the following table.
Questions:
a) Sequence these jobs using Johnson’s method and find the overall
processing time.
b) Find out the waiting time for the jobs.
c) Find out the idling times for the machines.
d) What are the conditions for using Johnson’s rule?
Assignment C
Marks 10
Answer all questions.
11. The most suitable method for forecasting the demand for a brand new product is
a) Moving averages
b) Historical data
c) Exponential smoothening
d) Delphi method
12. The planning that addresses the supply side of a firm’s ability to meet the demand
is known as
a) Business plan
b) Aggregate production planning
c) Aggregate capacity planning
d) Master production scheduling
14. The aggregate production planning strategy that cannot be employed in a strong
union environment is
a) Changing inventory levels
b) Changing workforce levels
c) Subcontracting
d) d) Influencing demand
18. All of the following are characteristics of Master Production Scheduling except
a) MPS makes use of actual customer orders
b) Product varieties are taken care of in MPS
c) MPS is a critical linkage between planning and execution of operations
d) It is same as rough cut capacity planning
20. All of the following are time phasing requirement of an MRP logic except
a) Gross requirement will occur at the middle of a period
b) On hand inventory will be measured at the end of a period
c) Planned order release will occur at the beginning of a period
d) Lead time considerations are not taken for time phasing
23. The process of tracing the effect of one component in another is called
a) Pegging
b) Cycle counting
c) Lot sizing
d) Time fencing
28. Which of the following is not a short term strategy for modifying capacity
a) Inventories
b) Employment levels
c) Subcontracting
d) Expansion
33. Three planning premises are used in production management. Which of the
following is not one among them
a) Make to stock
b) Make to order
c) Assemble to order
d) Make subassemblies
37. All of the following are characteristics of flow shop production except
a) Special purpose equipment
b) Many number of end items
c) Low skilled workers
d) Low in process inventories