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Unit I
1. Define Production Management
It is the process by which raw material and other inputs are converted into
finished goods.
2. What are the needs or Objectives of Production Management.
To manufacture the products as per the specification
To effectively manage the available resources and facilities
To produce products as per the market requirement .
3. What are the Functional subsystems of the any organization?
Production Management
Marketing Management
Personnel Management
Finance Management
4. What are the major managerial decisions to be taken while managing the
functional subsystems?
Strategic decision
Tactical decision
Operational decision
5. What are the strategic decisions need to be taken in Production Management?
Alternative manufacturing approaches and alternative approaches to automation
6. Define Product Planning.
Product planning is process of searching ideas for new products, screening them
systematically, converting them into tangible products and introducing the new
products into markets.
7. Define Operations Management
This is concerned with the management of the resources and processes required by an
organization to produce goods or services for customers.
8. Name the different types of inventories.
Raw materials
Bought out components or sub assemblies
Goods of work in progress.
Consumables
Finished goods.
9. Explain the term strategy and tactics
Strategies are plans to achieve organizational goals.
Tactics are methods and actions o accomplish strategies.
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Product design is concerned with the form and function of a product. Form or Shape
design is to determine the product appearance. Functional design is to determine the
functional features of the product in terms of performance.
30. What is job design and what approach is taken to design of jobs?
Job design is nothing but specifying the skills, qualifications, and training required for
the job to be performed. This is done based on the job content what is listed out based
on the tasks, duties and responsibilities of the job to be performed.
Work simplification, Job rotation, Job enlargement, Autonomous work team are some
of the approaches to design the jobs.
31. Define plant layout.
Plant layout means the arrangement and location different departments and of the
machinery and equipment within a department in such a manner that overall operating
costs are minimized.
32. Explain Group technology.
The objective of the Group technology is to minimize the sum of the cost of
transportation and the cost of the equipment. This is a multi objective layout.
33. Explain the term AQL.
Any lot having not more than 1% defective level is called Acceptable quality Level.
AQL.
34. What is break-even analysis?
It is financial analysis tool to study the cost, volume, and profit analysis of the product.
At the break-even point, the income is equal to the expenditure.
35. Explain type 1 and type2 error.
Type I Error . This is an error in sampling inspection. A sample from the output of a
process may lead to the conclusion that the process is out of control when the quality is
good.
Type II Error. A sample from the output gives the conclusion that the process is good
when the quality is out of control.
36. What is TQM?
A philosophy that involves everyone in an organization in a continual effort to improve
quality to achieve customer satisfaction is called TQM.
37. What do you mean by Business Process Re-Engineering?
Re-engineering is about achieving a significant improvement in process so that
contemporary customer requirements of quality, speed, innovations, customization and
service are met.
38. Comment on the fundamental factors affecting quality.
Management who set the quality policy
Suppliers who supply the raw material.
Design engineers who set the specifications.
Manufacturing personnel who make the product.
39. Define Work Study
Is body of knowledge concern with analysis of work methods and standard of proposed
work methods.
40. Define Motion Study
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Is a science of eliminating wastefulness resulting from using and necessary ill directed
and inefficient motion.
41. Define Work Measurement.
Is defined as the application of techniques designed to establish the work content of a
specified task by determining the time require for carrying out the task
42. Define Method Study
Method study may be understood as the systematic recording and critical examination
of existing and proposed ways of doing work
43. Define Scheduling
Is the allocation of start and finish time to each particular order.
44. Define Cyclical Scheduling
Cyclical or rotating a schedule rotate employees through a series of work days or
working hours.
Unit-IV
45. Define materials management.
Materials management is the planning, directing, controlling, and coordinating of all
those activities concerned with materials and inventory management.
46. Distinguish materials management and materials requirements planning.
Material management deals with planning, executing and controlling the flow of
materials in relation to changes in variables like demand , prices, availability, delivery
schedule etc.
Materials requirement planning performs three important functions,
Order planning and control
Priority planning and control
Capacity planning.
47. Define Purchasing
Is the act of buying an item at price.
48. Define Vendor Rating
It is process of rating a supplier based on some rating technique
49. Define Value analysis
It is also known as value engineering, it is an important activity that typically occurs
jointly between purchasing and metal engineering.
50. What is the reorder point system of controlling inventories?
It is about how much quantity to be ordered (Economic Order Quantity) and when the
order should be placed (Re-order level), it is based on the lead time for order delivery.
51. State the types of layout. Brief the salient features of any one.
Process Layout
Product layout
Group layout.
Fixed position layout.
52. Distinguish between mode, median, and arithmetic mean as measures of central
tendency.
Arithmetic mean refers to the average of the given data.
Median. refers to the individual data at the center position in a data distribution.
Mode. is defined as the individual data which has more number of frequency in a given
data distribution.
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Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) are a key part of the supply chain and
provide directed stock rotation, intelligent picking directives, automatic consolidation
and cross-docking to maximize the use of valuable warehouse space. The systems
also direct and optimizes stock put-away based on real-time information about the
status of bin utilization.Having a WMS in place means you don't depend any more on
people's experience, the system has the intelligence.
73. Write the formula of EOQ and give an explanation?
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management was coined by consultant Keith Oliver, of strategy consulting firm Booz
Allen Hamilton in 1982.
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