Sri Balaji College of Engg. & Tech.

, Jaipur
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Session (2018-19)
Branch: - Mechanical Engineering
B.Tech. IV Year/ VII Semester Subject: - Operations Management (7ME5A)
Assignment No. 3
Q.1 (a) What is facility location? Explain need for location decisions.
(b)What are the factors that affect facility location explain in details.
Q.2 What is facility layout? Explain the types of layouts with advantages and disadvantages.
Q.3 (a) What is line balancing? Explain the balancing procedure with example.
(b) Define material handling process. Explain different types of material handling equipments
Q.4 Explains the various types of quantitative techniques for location facility?
Q.5 expected location A,B,C have the cost structures shown for producing a product expected to sell at
rs 100 per unit. Find the most economical location for an expected volume of 2000 units per year. Also
calculate the range of annual volume of production for which each of the location A, B and C would be
most economical. Use location break even analysis.
Location Fixed cost per year Variable cost per unit
A 25000/- .50
B 50000/- .25
C 80000/- .15
Q.6 (a) Describe different levels of planning and differentiate between long range, intermediate range
and short range planning.
(b) Write short note on MRP-II and ERP.
Q.7 What is material requirement planning (MRP)? What are the inputs and outputs required by the
MRP processing logic?
Q.8 What is meant by Aggregate production planning? Explain the techniques of aggregate planning
through flow chart.
Q.9 PC Mark (P) Ltd is a personal computer assembling company based at Hyderabad. Its marketing
department has given the demand forecast shown in table below. Every worker assemble two computers
a day. The overtime cost is Rs.3 per day per unit in excess of the maximum capacity of the factory, that
is, 200 units. The company wants to find the total cost involved in the following plans: (a) level output
plan, (b) Chase plan , and (c) an intermediate plan(a combination of level output rate and chase plans) .
Month Jan. Feb. March April May June
Demand forecast 1000 3000 1000 5000 7000 2000
No. of working days 24 25 20 22 20 24

Q.10 What do you mean by Master Production Schedule? Explain in detail with suitable example.