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B.E.(Mechanical Engineering) Semester Seventh (C.B.S.)

Industrial Engineering
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Time : Three Hours *0868* Max. Marks : 80
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Notes : 1. All questions carry marks as indicated.
2. Solve Question 1 OR Questions No. 2.
3. Solve Question 3 OR Questions No. 4.
4. Solve Question 5 OR Questions No. 6.
5. Solve Question 7 OR Questions No. 8.
6. Solve Question 9 OR Questions No. 10.
7. Solve Question 11 OR Questions No. 12.
8. Due credit will be given to neatness and adequate dimensions.
9. Use of design data book is permitted.

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1. a) Explain the various tools & techniques to improve productivity. 8

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b) What is productivity and what is its relationship with production.

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2. a) Define method study. What are its objectives? Differentiate between work measurement 8
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& method study.

b) Define work study. What are the components of work study. 6

3. a) What are allowances in work measurement study? Explain the various types of allowances 7
in work measurement.
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b) Define work sampling? Why is work sampling important? 6

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4. a) What are the principles of motion economy? 7

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b) What is ergonomics? What are its objectives? How ergonomics is related to work place 6
design.

5. a) Explain various forecasting Techniques. 7

b) The past data on the load on weaving m/c is shown below. 6

Mon May-14 Jun-14 July-14 Aug-14 Sept-14 Oct-14 Nov-14
Load (HRS) - 585 610 675 750 860 970

i) Compute the load on the weaving m/c. Using 5th moving average for the month of
December-14
ii) Compute a weighted three months moving average for December-14 where weights
are 0.5 for the latest month, 0.3,0.2 for other months respectively.

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6. a) What is forecasting? How is it different from prediction? What is the need for demand 6
forecasting?

b) Demand for a part is given below: The forecast for April 97 was 100 units. Forecast the 7
demand for July 1997 taking the value of   0.2

7. a) What is maintenance? Explain the various types of maintenance with examples. 7

b) Explain Reliability, Maintainability & Availability in detail giving suitable example. 6

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8. a) Explain the various stages of failure analysis. Also explain what is bath tub curve with a 7
neat sketch.

b) Calculate the reliability of following component if all components are parallel & series. 6
R1  0.8, R 2  0.85, R 3  0.65, R 4  0.9, R 5  0.56, R 6  0.72

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9. a) What is quality? What do you understand by quality control? What are the various 6

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b) What is process capability? Explain operating characteristic (OC) curve with a neat 7

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10. a) Control charts of X and R are maintained to control an important dimension of a 7

component. The sub group size is settled as 5. The values of X and R computed for each
subgroup and the values of X and R are computed for each subgroup and the value of
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X and R after 25 subgroups are found to be 614.8 and 120.0 respectively. Compute
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b) What is acceptance sampling? Explain the types of Acceptance sampling in brief. 6

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11. a) Explain the following in detail. 6

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i) Quality Assurance. ii) Quality planning. iii) Quality a Audit.

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b) What is TQM. Explain the principles of TQM. 4

c) Explain the philosophy of six sigma in brief. 4

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12. a) Explain various approaches to quality improvement. 5

b) What is vendor quality rating an what basis is a vendor rated. 5

c) Write a short note on ISO 9000. 4

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