MS005 Management Of Machines And Materials IGNOU exam question paper

MS-005: Management Of Machines And Materials last 3 yrs paper

June, 2021

  1. (a) Explain the objectives of Operations Management. Discuss the role of operations managers.

    (b) In your opinion, what is easier to manage between a high volume continuous operation and a high variety intermittent operation? Justify your answer.

  2. (a) What factors do you consider in designing a plant layout? Briefly discuss the steps involved in plant layout design

    (b) What is meant by intensiveness of use of a productive unit, and how is it relevant while establishing its capacity?

  3. (a) What is the ‘concept of work design’? Explain the significant benefits of work design.

    (b)List the critical factors that must be addressed in job design and briefly discuss the importance of each one.

  4. (a) Define the Economic Order Quality. Derive the equation for an economic order quantity.

    (b) What is the role of CPM in project management? Differentiate between CPM and PERT.

  5. (a) What is Value Engineering? How does value engineering help in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of product?

    (b) What do industry persons/practitioners understand by ‘sampling’ in the context of quality control? Explain the Single Sampling Plan.

  6. (a) What are the significant criteria for vendor evaluation? Briefly explain each of them.

    (b) Why is stores accounting important for a firm? Discuss various systems that may be followed and their impact on product pricing?

    7. December, 2020

    1. (a) What is the producibility? How does it affect the product selection?

      (b) Explain the product design. How does it influence the process design?

    2. (a) Why is ‘in process inventory’ likely to be higher for an intermittent operation than for a continuous flow operation?

      (b) What are the steps of a facility location study? In case you want to locate a soft drink bottling plant, what factor would you consider relevant for taking a location decision?

    3. (a) Service organisations usually have to be provided with a higher capacity than annual or monthly requirement. Why?

      (b) What is work design? Does work design increase productivity? Justify your answers.

    4. (a) Discuss some principles of motion study and their relevance to job design

      (b) Critically examine the statement, “Value engineering is more human relation, team building and motivation programme than any they else.”

    5. (a) What are the demand factors and how do they influence the purchase decisions?

      (b) What do you understand by statistical quality control? Explain the acceptance sampling with suitable diagram.

    6. (a) Briefly explain the inventory control. Who should be responsible for inventory control? Why?

      (b) What do you understand by automated storage and retrieval? For what kinds of goods, do you think such system would be appropriate?

    June, 2020

    1. (a) Why is it more difficult to increase the productivity of a service system as compared to a production system?

      (b) What do you understand by process life cycle? Explain in detail in context of machines.

    2. (a) Explain the flexible manufacturing system. Is a flexible manufacturing suitable for mass production? Justify your answer.

      (b) List the basic type of plant layout. How is the cellular layout different from the process layout?

    3. (a) Briefly explain the importance of material handling in designing a layout. What is entailed in selecting the material handling system?

      (b) What do you understand by method study? Explain the different stages of method study.

    4. (a) List the essential factors that must be addressed in job design and briefly discuss the importance of each one.

      (b) Explain ‘Value Engineering’. How do you organize value engineering function in an automobile industry?

    5. (a) Briefly explain the quality management. Critically examine the statement “quality is free, but it is not a gift.”

      (b) ) What do you understand by statistical process control? Explain the purpose of the control chart.

    6. (a) Draw a typical structure of MRP based Planning System. Explain its structure.

      (b) What are the reasons for codifications and standardization of materials? Briefly explain the advantages and disadvantages of codification.

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