Assessment -1 Department of Industrial Engineering, Time: 1.0 hrs.

12/04/2021 College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Max: 40 Marks

Chennai
R2019 IE7401 – WORK SYSTEM DESIGN 2019-23 Batch
To assess the following course outcomes and student learning level perspectives

CO1:To understand the concepts of productivity and productivity measurement Models.

CO2: To record and analyse the task using Method study and apply principle to improve
performance

1. Fair faces, a small sized company making facial cosmetic powders, has mainly CO2 K5
blenders in its plant equipment. Due to the technical characteristics of the powders
there have to be a number of such blenders accommodating small batches of the facial
powders. The main components of the operation of a blender are:
Load talc : 2.5 minutes
Add perfume :2.0 minutes
Close :0.5 minutes
Blend: 31.0 minutes
Unload in to special bins :2.2 minutes
Component d) blend and e) unload in to special bins are purely machine components.

The wages of a blender -operator (i.e. the person operating) is Rs. 30/-per hour as his
job involves a degree of some skill. Each load of blending generates a contribution of
Rs 50/. The company works on a single shift which consists of 7 1/4 operating hours,
after allowing time for lunch, tea and personal breaks. How many blending machines
should one person look after? Explain the economics involved in the operation in your
answer.(15 Marks)

2 Consider the data for a hypothetical firm shown in Table 6.1. Find the Profitability CO1 K4
Index, Productivity Index, price recovery Index.(15 Marks)
Period1 (base period) Period 2
Quantity Price (in $) Quantity Price (in $)
Output
Product 1 2000 Last two digit 2100 Last two digit of you
of you roll no roll no +5
Product 2 200 190 90 200
Input
Labour
Category 1 3000 5 2500 7
Category 1 650 6 550 8
Material
Material1 6000 1 7000 1.3
Material2 200 6 150 7.5
Material3 400 2 400 3.0
 Energy
Type 1 10000 0.15 8000 0.20
Type 2 200 1.00 250 1.10
Capital
Depreciation $100000 0.10 $100000 0.10
Return $150000 ? $180000 ?
(profit)

3. A Multi-Specialty hospital in Mumbai follows certain systematic way of serving Lunch CO2 K4
in a hospital ward. The hospitals ward containing 15 beds. When dinners were served
by the nurse in charge of the ward fetched a large tray bearing the first course,
together with the plates for the patients, from the kitchen. The food was usually
contained in three dishes two of which held vegetables and the third the main dish.
The nurse placed the tray on the table marked serving table. She set the large dishes
out on the table, served one plate with meat and vegetables and carried it to bed. She
returned to the serving table and repeated the operation for the remaining 14 beds.
When she served all the patients with the first course, she returned to the kitchen with
the tray and the empty dishes, collected the dishes and plates for the second course
and returned to the ward. She then repeated the complete operation, replacing the
plates -emptied by the patients with plates containing their second course and
returning the used plates to the serving table, where she stacked them. Finally she
made a tour of the ward, collecting up the empty plates from the second course, and
carried everything on the tray back to the kitchen. Identify which type of chart can be
used for the current method and draw the current chart? (10 Marks)