Management of Manufacturing Systems

b) State and explain in brief various allowances to be considered while estimating the standard time.

a) What is the importance of plant location? Describe the various factors to be considered in selecting the site for a plant in a particular locality.

b) Discuss about group technology in detail.

A company is manufacturing 25200 components per month by employing 105 workers in 8 hours shift. The company gets an additional order of 10000 pieces from other supplier. The management decides to employ additional workers. What will be the production and productivity level when the numbers of additional workers employed are:

          i) 30   ii) 25    iii) 20 

a) State the objective of method study.

b) What is a flow process chart and discuss its utility for a method study engineer.

a) Differentiate between method study and work measurement. 

Explain the necessity of maintenance management and also describe how preventive maintenance is better than corrective maintenance.

An company consumes electrode at the rate of 600 electrode per month. The cost of one packet containing 12 electrodes is Rs. 48. The cost of placing an order and processing the delivery comes out to be Rs. 24 per order. The inventory carrying cost is 16% of average inventory investment. Determine EOQ and the total variable cost of managing the inventory. 

a) What is cost estimating and state the objective cost estimating.

A certain product is manufactured in batches of 100. The direct material cost is Rs. 500, direct labour cost is Rs. 700 and factory overheads are 50% of the prime cost. If the selling expense are 30% of the factory cost, what would be selling price of each product so that the profit of 10 percent of the total cost.

a) Explain Break-Even Analysis with assumptions made while plotting the Break-Even Chart.

b) Describe the procedural step for preparing the Break-Even Chart. 

Write down the brief note on the following:

a) Explain the meaning of productivity with examples and also differentiate between production and productivity.

Write down the brief note on the following:

b) Describe scheduling and what is the importance of scheduling in Production, Planning and Control .

Write down the brief note on the following:

c) Define management and describe the various level of management with their function. 

Write down the brief note on the following:

d) Define inventory. What are the various types of inventory?

Write down the brief note on the following:

e) Describe the principle of scientific management in brief.