OPERANDI 2013

1. Activity sequencing (or logic) depends upon (a)technological constraints or restrictions due to the method (b)normal availabilities of resources (c)managerial choice (d)all of the above (e)a & c only

2. A quality circle is (a) an appointed place in a manufacturing plant, where quality characteristics of the materials being processed are checked (b) a government-appointed body to check and control the quality of output in sensitive industries such as defense-related materials, drugs and pharmaceuticals (c) a small voluntary group of employees, in a company, who discuss and try to improve the quality of output and other work-related matters (d) the circular phenomenon whereby there is a constant feedback regarding the quality between the management and the workers.

3. Just-in-time techniques are applicable to (a) Purchasing (b) Production (c) Distribution (d) a & b (e) all of the above

4. Which of the charts or diagrams below shows relationships to reveal problem causes? (a) Pareto diagram. (b) x-bar chart (c) range chart (d) Fishbone Diagram (e) histogram

5. The concept of variability is recognized by which of following concepts or philosophies? (a) TOC (b) ABC (c) JIT (d) a & b (e) a&c

6. With respect to project costing, which of the following is NOT true? (a) The process of reducing project duration by reducing some of the activity times is called crashing. (b) Subcontracting, using the services of overtime labor and adding an extra shift are some of the approaches for crashing the project time. (c) As the project crashing approaches are expensive, managers need to make an analysis of time-cost tradeoffs that reduce the project duration with a minimum increase in cost. (d) We select the critical activity that has the minimum completion time. (e) None of these

7. An Apple store has a customer arrival rate of 15 per hour. The salesperson can service a customer every 3 minutes. Assuming Poisson arrivals and exponential service, find the utilization of the salesperson? (a) 70 %

(b) 72.5 % (c) 75 % (d) 133.33 % (e) None of these

8. Bajaj scooters manufacturing unit works for 25 days in a month, 18 hours each day. The monthly demand is 7000 scooters per month. What is the takt time for the unit? Will the demand be met if the process is designed for 240 sec/unit? (a) 231 sec/unit, no (b) 231 sec/unit, yes (c) 115.7 sec/unit, no (d) 115.7 sec/unit, yes (e) None of these

9. Operations are concerned with ___________while marketing is concerned with____________. (a) demand, quality (b) efficiency, cost (c) supply, demand (d) demand, supply (e) efficiency, supply 10. Job shops (a) are the same as batch (b) do not relate to service operations (c) often have large percentages of their inventory as work in process. (d) are generally set up for repeat business (e) b & d

11. Productivity can be improved by (a) increasing inputs while holding outputs steady (b) decreasing outputs while holding inputs steady (c) increasing inputs and outputs in the same proportion (d) decreasing inputs while holding outputs steady (e) all of the above 12. Anil and Apoorva are the team leaders of an R&D team which prepares project status report on at the end of each month. The team leaders submit the reports to the Director on the first Monday of each next month. Unfortunately, they forgot to check their calendar one month until late Friday evening. To their surprise, they discovered that the month ended on Sunday and the reports were due the following Monday morning. As they had not started writing them, they decided to come to work early Saturday morning, so they could finish the reports before Monday morning. They split the work as follows: Anil writes and edits the reports while Apoorva collates data and draws all the necessary graphs. Assume that Apoorva starts her work on a report as soon as Anil is finished with it and that Anil works continuously. Times for the reports (in hours) are as follows:

Projects A B C D E

Anil 4 3 5 7 8

Apoorva 2 5 1 3 6

What is the order of the tasks using Johnson's rule? (a) B-D-E-A-C (b)B-E-A-C-D

(c) B-E-D-A-C (d)B-E-D-C-A (e) B-D-E-C-A

13. How many hours will it take them to finish all the reports? (a) 26 (b) 52 (c) 28 (d)56 (e) 104 14. 3 productivity variables which are commonly used (a) quality, external elements, and precise units of measure (b) technology, raw materials, and labor (c) education, diet, and social overhead (d) labor, capital and management (e) quality of the student, efficiency of the student to work and money 15. The method that considers several variables that are related to the variable being predicted is (a) Causal forecasting (b) Exponential smoothing (c) Weighed moving average (d) All of the above (e) None of the above

16) XYZ is a perfume making company. The profits of the company have increased by 10% this year. The demand for perfumes has increased at a higher level and the customers now expect faster delivery. Which of the following manufacturing strategies should the company adopt to ensure immediate delivery of the perfumes? (a) Make-to-order (b) assemble-to-order (c) make-to-stock (d) service (e) None of the above 17) Name the common link: ______ distribution ______ principle -----------frontier

18) FOOD FOR THOUGHT 2 tablespoons olive oil or oil from sun-dried tomatoes in the jar 6 slices bacon, chopped 2 large onions, chopped 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1kg / 2 lb lean ground beef 2 large glasses of red wine 2x400g cans chopped tomatoes 1x290g jar antipasti marinated mushrooms, drained 2 bay leaves fresh or dried 1 teaspoon dried oregano coffee or a small handful of fresh leaves, chopped 1 teaspoon dried thyme or a small handful of fresh leaves, chopped Drizzle with balsamic vinegar 12-14 halves of sun dried tomatoes in oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper

A good handful of fresh basil leaves, torn into small pieces 800g-1kg / 1 -2 lb dried ________ Lots of freshly grated Parmesan cheese, to serve Name the tool that takes its name from the above.

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Over 50 years ago, the store format observed at an outlet of the chain whose logo can be seen above, led to an inspiration that led to what is now one of the cornerstones of TPS. Name the concept.

20) With respect to throughput costing, what will be the effect on the net income when finished goods inventory increases (a) will be greater than net income based on either absorption costing or direct costing. (b) will be less than net income based on either absorption costing or direct costing. (c) will be greater than net income based on absorption costing, but equal to direct costing net income (d) will be greater than net income based on direct costing, but equal to absorption costing net income (e) none of the above 21) What will be the effect on the financial measures by decreasing inventory (as defined in TOC) without affecting throughput or operating expense

(a) increase in net income (b) decrease in net income (c) increase in return on investment. (d) decrease in return on investment (e) a & c both 22) FUNDE DAAL

23) Number of hours available per day - 10 Item 1 2 3 Daily Demand 100 225 325 Cycle Time (min) 1.0 1.0 0.5 Run Time (Min) 100 150 250 Set-up Time 20 30 10

Find the EPEI per day. (a) 1.4 (b) 0.4 (c) 0.6 (d) 1.66 (e) None of these

24) Find the correct option

A B C D E

J1 11 9 13 21 14

J2 17 7 16 24 10

J3 8 12 15 17 12

J4 16 6 12 28 11

J5 20 15 16 26 13

(a) AJ411, BJ37,CJ110,DJ211,EJ521 (b) AJ318, BJ25,CJ410,DJ513,EJ115 (c) AJ111, BJ27,CJ412,DJ317,EJ513 (d) AJ511, BJ39,CJ415,DJ219,EJ113 (e) AJ511, BJ49,CJ315,DJ119,EJ213

25) Find the total cost using LCEM

D1 19 70 40 5 D2 30 30 8 8 D3 50 40 70 7 D4 10 60 20 14 Capacity 7 9 18

S1 S2 S3 Requirement

(a) 1015 (b) 1227 (c) 995 (d) 814 (e) 772