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APRIL 2015 77361/PMD2L

Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks

PART A — (10 × 1 = 10 marks)

Answer any TEN questions.

1. What is Product planning?

2. What is Ergonomics?

3. Name the basic types of layout.

4. Specify the purpose of scheduling.

5. What do you mean by reorder point?

6. Explain JIT.

7. Where do you use bridge crane?

8. What is the meaning of job design?

9. What does method study measures?

10. What technique you use to check for attributes

related quality control?

11. What do you understand by dynamic purchase?

12. Write about LILO.

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PART B — (5 × 5 = 25 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.

13. What are the factors used to decide plant location?

14. Write the significance of production management.

15. Specify the principles of a good layout.

16. Summarise the general guidelines for

implementing SCM.

17. Specify the functions of production control.

18. Explain Gantt chart.

19. Write a note on stock records.

PART C — (4  10 = 40 marks)

Answer Q.No. 20 compulsory and answer any THREE

questions from Q.No. 21 to 24.

20. The selling price for a new solar heating panel is

Rs. 100 per unit and the direct materials and
labour costs are Rs. 80 per unit. If the fixed cost
are Rs. 20,000, how many units have to be sold in
order to break even? What is the volume of sales
to get a profit of Rs. 5,000? Determine the margin
of safety of the plant at this point.

21. Discuss the applications of control chart for

variables with an example.

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22. Discuss the reasons why progress reporting is so

important to production control.

23. Why is accepting sampling not considered an

attempt to control the quality of a process?

24. Compare the merits and demerits of breakdown

and preventive maintenance.

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