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Study any BPO of your choice and observe its peculiar operational problems. Recommend improvements in its operations.
How does a good plant layout help to improve productivity?
Can the plant layout principles be applied to forming a layout of an office? What criteria would you use in designing such a layout?
What is the effect of technology on physical layout? Discuss for manufacturing and service service situations.
What are the merits and limitations of CRAFT? What modifications do you suggest?
How would you use a Nearness Diagram for the layout design? How is it different from the Load Summary in its concept and its use?
Relate Ergonomics with plant layout.
Where would one make use of the concept of Group Technology?
What is a Flexible Manufacturing System? How is it related to the layout of physical facilities?
Does a production scheduling system have any bearing on the plant layout decision? If yes, how?
PQR Manufacturing Works makes the following products:Product Monthly Volume of Production, Units P 140 Q 50 R 175 S 115 Product Monthly Volume of Production, Units T 75 U 100 V 90 There are six
Nagda Agri-Products is planning to set up a regional warehouse in north-eastern Maharashtra. M/s Shivajirao & Co., M/s. Patil Farms, M/s. Aras & Brothers, and M/s. Jambhekar & Co. are its main
Study and suggest improvements in the layout of facilities in your educational institution(or your office/work–place). Present a report.
How could Cellular Manufacturing be of strategic value to an organisation? Discuss.
Would the formation in cells lead to a duplication of machines and, therefore, a larger investment in machines? Discuss.
What are the disadvantages of a Line Layout that one should avoid in Cellular Manufacturing? How would one do that? Explain.
What human relations problems, if any, would you expect in a cellular manufacturing situation? Explain.
How is management control different in a Cellular Manufacturing situation as opposed to the traditional situation of a process and/or a line layout? Discuss.
In addition to the grouping of machines and/or components, what other aspects need be considered while designing a cell? Explain.
Is Cellular Manufacturing because of its departure from a process layout, inimical to new product design? Group technology is an attempt to discover uniformity in diversity.Whereas a new product
Refer to the modular concept in Product Design. How is the concept of modularity important in Cellular Manufacturing? Discuss.
How could a cell design problem be expressed in a Linear Programming format? What is the objective? What are the variables? What are the constraints? Explain.
Refer to Just-in-Time (JIT) manufacturing system which is presented in Section VI. What could be the Group Technology applications, if any, in JIT? Discuss.11 How do ‘spatial’ relationships such
‘Group Technology as applied to a production/operations system is a human relations technology.’ Would you agree with this statement? Discuss.
Reflect on various areas in which Group Technology could be used productively. Mention those areas. Discuss.
Find about systems of classification and codification other than the Optiz system mentioned briefly in this chapter. Find about their application in Group Technology for manufacturing.
Would the principles of Cellular Manufacturing be useful in a large hospital? Explain your answer in detail.
Does grouping take away some of the flexibility from manufacturing? Does grouping of machines and people in cells introduce more rigidity into the operations system? Discuss.
Discuss the importance of facilities location decision in operations planning.
Why are some industries located near the source of raw materials, whereas some near the markets for their finished goods?
In locating additional nuclear power plant in India, what factors would you take into consideration? Explain.
In order to attract more industries to the industrially backward areas in India, what additional measures would you suggest other than the measures already being taken by the Central and State
What are the plus and minus points of India in attracting foreign investment? If Government of India were to desire for more foreign investment, what steps need to be taken?
How do the location problems for a manufacturing industry, a government hospital, a fire station, a new railway station and a higher primary schools differ from one another?
Compare the following two methods of site location:(i) Dimensional analysis(ii) Brown and Gibson method
What are the limitations of the above two methods? Can these be used for locating Emergency-Service units?
How are social values important in location decisions? Explain for (a) manufacturing industry and (b) service facilities location.
What is the behavioural dimension in planning location for a manufacturing industry? A supermarket? A low-cost housing complex?
How does the ‘technology component’ influence the location decision?
Would Linear Programming be of any help in a site selection problem? Explain.
Collect data about and present a critique of the ‘Navi Mumbai’ (twin cities) project.
Jai Hind Industries is planning to set up a new plant. Following, is a table showing alternative locations and respective costs (in Rs.):Location Cost 5Transport, per unit 1.00 1.50 1.35 1.65 1.70
Agri-Products Company has two factories, one at Tiruchi and one at Meerut. There are four major warehouses to which the finished products are sent: at Guwahati, Nagpur, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh. The
What infrastructure is important in deciding upon the location of an IT industry? What infrastructure is important in deciding upon the location of a Bio-tech (BT) industry?Discuss. As a CEO (Mayor)
Discuss the merits and demerits of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) for the country that outsourced.
What may be the merits and demerits in Indian industries setting up operations facilities in USA? What may be the merits and demerits in setting up operations in P.R. of China?Do these merits and
If Silicon Valley of USA were to attract Indian capital and you were the Marketing Representative based in India for the Silicon Valley, what action plan would you suggest to Silicon Valley? Why?
Study a multinational corporation. Present your observations on its global locations and the merits and demerits of such arrangements. Present your suggestions with supporting arguments.
What is the aim of production planning?
Wickham Skinner has written a book Manufacturing—A Corporate Strategy. How could manufacturing be used as a corporate strategy? Give examples.
Should cost be the primary criterion in operations planning? Explain.
To make PPC truly integrative, what prerequisites are necessary?
How could a good Management Information System contribute to PPC?
Discuss centralisation and decentralisation in the context of PPC.
How are production planning problems and solutions different for long range and shorter range? Discuss.
What is the importance of forecasts in PPC?For different operations planning needs how are different forecasting techniques suitable?
What impact could computerisation have on PPC?
Would operations planning and control in service industries be different from PPC in manufacturing industries? Discuss.
Why is an intermediate range production plan called an ‘aggregate’ production plan?
What are the merits and demerits of the Transportation Problem method of aggregate planning?
How do the aggregate planning methods of the Transportation Problem and Linear Programming compare?
What are the advantages of the HMMS model over the Linear Programming model?
The HMMS and other sophisticated models have not been very popular in practice. What may be the reasons?
What could be the application of Goal Programming in aggregate planning?
Do you see any limitations in the HMMS model in a multi-product situation?
How would forecast errors affect the Linear Decision Rules?
Explain the relationship between the materials management and production planning functions.
‘A control system should be stable and efficient.’ Elaborate this statement in the light of Production Control suggested in this chapter.
What is the purpose of Assembly Line Balancing?
Assembly Line Balancing be used in service industry ? Give examples.
Sathya Industries has the following demand forecasted for the next 12 months.Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Demand(units)900 700 800 400 500 800 900 300 200 800 700 700 The firm can have the
If in Problem 13 hiring and layoff strategies are allowed, and if the relevant cost details are as follows, how would the production plan change?Hiring cost per person = Rs. 500 Layoff cost per
Super Power Batteries Limited’s production plan is to produce 800 units per month for the first 3 months, 650 units per month for the next 3 months, 500 units per month for the third quarter, and
The precedence relationship and the task-times for an assembly line are given below:Task Immediate Predecessor Time,(min.)a– 3 ba 4 c– 7 dc 4 ed 7 f e 10 ge 7 h– 2 i b,f 9 jh 9 ki 7 lg 8 mj 4 n
Differentiating between Loading and Scheduling. In a clear-cut distinction between the two possible under all production situations? If so, where is it possible and where is it possibel ?
Discuss the use of the Gantt Chart for scheduling purposes.
What are the limitations of an Assignment Problem technique for loading purposes ?
Under what circumstances can Johnson’s Rule be used ? How does it bring about optimatlity ? Can it ibe extended to a situation, say, with 5 processes and 10 machines ? (Quote research literature,
Would the LOB technique be more useful to the General Manager (Production) or to a Plant Superintendent ? Explain.
What are the scheduling problems in Line production ?
What are the scheduling problems in services?
In additions to Assembly Line Balancing, what additional ways can you think of for increasing the productivity of the production line ?
What are the merits of having a Job-order type system of production and of a Line production? How would you design a system which may get the good point of both? What might be the pre-conditions for
If there is a wide viration in the yields of different production operations in a production system, will you advocate the use of the LOB technique? (Assume that the situation is one of single batch
LOB uses the precedence diagram (with respect to time) similar to a PERT/CPM network.In what ways is LOB different from the PERT/CPM type of analysis ?
What is the use of having Dispatch Rules? Why has so much research been done on the various Dispatch Rules?
What is the lead time? George Plossl has said “Lead Time is what you say it is”. Analyse this statement for its meaning and ramifications.
Discuss the problems in routing and scheduling, that might be faced by an airline such as Air India in its domestic operations. How would you go about helping Air India, as an Operations Planning
Astrolonger Asha (AA), Palmist Pamela (PP) and Numerologist Nafisa (NN) have opened a ‘Solace Centre’. There are the following solace seekers today. All ‘seekers’ shall be seen by all the
An MBA student has taken a number of courses this term. As usual, each professor has given a ‘term paper’ to write and submit. The due dates and the a mount of work remaining to be done on each
Five professors of the MBA program have given assignments to be ready in a day. Five over loaded MBA students sit down together. The time requirement, in hours, for each of the students for any
What will be the completion time for the entire project?
At what points of time can we expect parts/phases of the project to be completed?
What are the activities which cause bottlenecks and need special management attention?
What slacks or free-times do different activities have?
Is time duration of the project acceptable? If not, what changes in the logic of the network may be done so as to complete the project within the desired time?
Would a project management organisation be different from an organisation for regular manufacturing? In what ways?
How are organisational considerations important in the network development?
How are projects identified? Discuss the process.
What are the similarities, if any, between the corporate planning process and the project identification and appraisal process?

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