PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

Specific Instructions:

 There are four Questions in this assignment . The student should answer all
the four questions . Marks allotted 100.
 Each question carries equal numbers (25 marks) unless specified explicitly.

Question 1

A company planning to manufacture tennis racquets has to decide on

the location of the plant. Three locations are bring considered viz.
Mysore, Bangalore and Hosur. The fixed costs at the three locations are
estimated to be Rs. 30 lakh, 50 lakh and 25 lakh per annum respectively.
The variable cost are Rs.300 , Rs. 200 and Rs.350 per unit respectively.
The expected sales price of the tennis racquet is Rs. 700 per unit . Find
out (a) the range of annual production /sales volume for which each
location is the most suitable and (b) which one of the three is the best
location at a production/ sales volume of 18000 units.

Question 2
a) explain how layout depends on the system of production?
b) What are
i) “pull” system and
ii) “push” system
c) Discuss the relevance of MRP in the Indian context . whata re the
challenges to be experienced in the implementation of MRP in the
Indian situation
d) What are the limitations of network techniques? Explain

Question 3
The sprinklers used ofr irrigating a farm generally go bad because the soil
sediments in water get stuck in the system. Kartar Singh has studied the past
data of failure of these sprinklers and has come up with the findings:
Time to failure 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
 Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week
Week
No. of failures 50 30 18 11 7 4 3 2
1
i) the mode of failure
ii) the average time to failure
iii) the mean rate to failure
iv) the reliability of any sprinkler running uninterrupted for sour
weekd? For seven weeks, under the given conditions

Question 4
a) Discuss the managerial use of Total floats and Free Floats
b) Discuss the sailent features of a project management
c) is sequencing important ? If so, why? When does it become less
important?