Paper OM0004

Advanced Production and Operations Management

Assignment Set 1 – (30 Marks)

Note: Answer all the questions. Each question carries 10 marks

1. (a) What do you mean by strategy? Explain operational strategy and contents of operational
strategy.

(b) Explain the impact of product or service life cycle on operational strategy briefly.

(c) Explain the types of design of manufacturing management system.

2. (a) Explain operations as service briefly & mention the factors that constitutes operations as
competitive weapon.

(b) Mention different steps involved to perform competitive analysis.

3. (a) what do you mean by flexible manufacturing systems & also explain how to build flexible
manufacturing systems.

(b) Distinguish between logical & physical modeling.

(c) Explain hybrid process/product cell briefly.

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Advanced Production and Operations Management

Assignment Set 2 – (30 Marks)

Note: Answer all the questions. Each question carries 10 marks

1. (a) What do you mean by new product development & also explain internet impact on new
product development briefly.

(b) Mention the key strategies for product development & explain each briefly.

2. (a) explain JIT with the help of JIT model.

(b) Explain each of the following briefly:

 High quality production.

 Small and uniform workloads.
 Suppliers as partners.
 Flexible workforce and training.
 Total productive maintenance.

3. (a) What do you mean by Toyota Production System (TPS)?mention different production
system established by Toyota.

(b) Explain each of the following briefly:

 Aggregate planning system.

 Sales and operations planning.

(c) Explain production planning strategy & explain role of MRP in Production planning system.