Code No: 53216/MT

NR
M.Tech. – II Semester Regular Examinations, September, 2008

PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

(Common to Advanced Manufacturing Systems/
Design for Manufacturing)

Time: 3hours Max. Marks:60

Answer any FIVE questions

All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Explain various reasons for the arise of facility location problem.
b) There are four existing facilities which are to be served by a single
new facility. The details of the existing facilities are shown in the
following table.
Existing facility (i) 1 2 3 4
Coordinates (ai,bi) 15,10 10,5 5,15 20,10
No.of trips of 200 100 300 400
loads/year (wi)

Find the optimum location of the new facility such that the total cost of
material handling is minimized by using Euclidean-Distance method.
Make a comment on answer.

2. Consider the following initial layout with unit cost matrix use the
CRAFT pair wise interchange technique to obtain the desirable
layout.
6 4
A B
4
4 C D

4 6

Initial layout.

To A B C D
From
A - 1 1 3
B 2 - 2 1
C 0 2 - 2
D 1 4 3 -

Flow matrix.
Contd……2.
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3. Consider the following assembly network relationships of a

product. The number of shifts per day is three and the number of
working hours per shifts is 8. The company aims to produce 60
units of the product per day.
Group the activities into work stations using RPW method and
compute balance efficiency.

Operation number Immediate preceding tasks Duration (Min)

1 - 8
2 1 12
3 1 15
4 2 10
5 2 14
6 2 9
7 3 11
8 3 16
9 3 20
10 4,5 8
11 6,7 13
12 7,8,9 17
13 10,11 6
14 11,12 5
15 13,14 12

(RPW: Rank Positional Weight)

4.a) Explain various capacity planning strategies.

b) A system has seven stations. The individual capacity of the critical
station is limited to 1000 units per week. If, the actual output of the
product line is 800 units per week, find
i) The system capacity and ii) System efficiency.

5.a) What are the advantages and disadvantages of specialization of job.

b) Explain various approaches to job design.

6. Consider the following data of a project

Activity Predecessor (s) Duration(weeks)

a m b
A - 3 5 8
B - 6 7 9
C A 4 5 9
D B 3 5 8
E A 4 6 9
F C,D 5 8 11
G C,D,E 3 6 9
H F 1 2 9

Contd……3.
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a) Construct the project work

b) What is the probability of completing the project on or before 30
weeks?
7. Consider the manufacture of a toy. The master production schedule to
manufacture the toy is given in the following table.

Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Demand 200 - 100 175 300 200 - 250
(BOM)
The bill of material structure is given in the following figure

The details of BOM along with economic order quantity and stock on
hand for the final product and subassemblies are shown in the following
table
Past Order No.of units Lead time Stock on
required quantity week hand
A 350 1 2 200
B 450 1 1 400
C 400 1 1 375
D 375 1 1 250
E 400 1 2 425

Complete the material requirement for the main product A as well as for
the subassemblies B,C,D and E.

8.a) Explain the concept of value engineering.

b) Explain matrix method of value engineering.

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