11-06-2013, 12:00 PM
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS FOR PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
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Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
1.a) State the functions of Production Operations Manager.
b) Explain the role of POM in the present scenario.
2.a) What is meant by Simplification? Explain its importance in product design.
b) Explain various approaches for process selection.
3.a) Explain various phases of value analysis with a suitable example.
b) State the objectives of value analysis.
4. Company wishes to produce 480 units per eight hour a day. The tasks, task times and precedence requirements necessary to produce the toys are given below:
a) Compute the cycle time it can have if it wants to produce 480 units of product per eight hour a day.
b) Compute the theoretical minimum number of work stations needed.
c) Using the Ranked Positional Weight Method; determine the minimum number of workstations showing which tasks are to be assigned to each work station.
d) Compute the efficiency and delay of the production line.
5.a) Explain various objectives of aggregate planning.
b) Vultex Fibers produces a line of sweat clothes that exhibits a varying demand pattern. Given the following demand forecast, production costs and constraints, design a production plan for Vultes using the transportation model. Also calculate the cost of production plan.