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Production Planning and Control

As the quantity increases, the procurement cost :-

Long termed forecasts are for the period of :-

When shop floor scheduling problem larger than 3 machines arise the analytical solution procedures leading to optimality are complex and difficult.

To solve "n jobs - 2 machines" sequencing problem, it is assumed that each machine can perform only one type of operation and can undertake only one job at a time.

There are five manufacturing systems. However, many manufacturers combines two or more systems to produce a final product.

The cost involved in subcontracting some of the operations of item outside the home plant is called :-

In PERT, use of dummy activities is not much essential.

The earliest start time of an activity equals to earliest event time of :-

If efficiency is more, the manufacturing time required for completion of job would be generally :-

Job production requires ______ capital investment.

If more variety is to be manufactured, the manufacturing facilities would have to be :-

Because of uncertainty of activity timings, PERT acquired a shape of ______ model.

Increase in inventory carrying cost increases EOQ.

To minimize total throughout time we are required to minimize :-

Short term forecasts are for ______.

The LOB technique is made more accurate and fast by using ______.

Ordering of raw material is based on :-

Labour efficiency factor is applied after capacity requirement of equipment is calculated.

Negative value of critical ratio :-

The assembly work content [ Wi ] of the i'th station having n work stations is given by :-

LOB is a manual planning and scheduling technique similar in nature to MRP [Material Resource Planning].

Machine capacity chart

Standard elemental time data

A type items are always vital under VED analysis.

Production Planning and Control department acts as a link between company's sales and ______ department.

Heuristics approach gave very good results when Wester and Kilbridge applied it to ______ assembly line.

The make-or-buy decision becomes necessary when the current source of supply is not able to supply the material in accordance with buyer's quality requirements.

The administrative lead time e.g. time involved in processing the order, which may be in periodical review system including the period until next review is called ______ lead time.

As the quantity increases, the procurement cost :-

Exponential smoothening is weighted average method.

LOB has advantage that it is more ______ oriented than MRP.

If number of work stations is 8 and work content of all stations is 32 , the cycle time would be ______.

In order to complete a project on time, each critical activity need not be completed in time.

C type items would never be vital under VED analysis.

The sourcing of vendors in case of 'B' type of items is :-

Flexibility and product variety are not inter-related with each other.

On completion of work the job card is returned to production planning and control department for reference and record.

______ is the sum of set up time and run time.

Of all the work measurement techniques the most widely used techniques is________.

Only satisfied customers get in ______ from new customers.

Line staff can assist PPC by manufacturing some of their needs in their own shops rather than making PPC to tool room or purchase.

______ are grouped so that their total time is preferably equal to or little lesser than the time available each work station.

Sequencing helps management to determine the most economical job sequence the one that consumes minimum :-

In CPM, use of dummy activities is much essential .

Mass & flow production and process production are categorized under :-

Keeping available time per day constant, if the desired production rate per day is to be doubled ,cycle time will be reduced by :-

In precedence diagram the length of arrow has very high degree of significance.

Orders with ______ slack time remaining per operation are run first.

Earliest possible occurrence time [ I.e. stray time ] of activity [ies ] emanating from the event is represented by :-

______ is a production line made up of operations that form or change the physical or sometimes chemical characteristics of a product.

Work measurement is not useful for choosing between two alternate methods of production.

To keep facilities busy, waiting time due to non-availability of work should be kept at :-

Effective capacity per period is calculated as :-

Random fluctuation is addition of cyclical fluctuation and seasonal fluctuation.

________items should be excluded from ABC Analysis.

As per a study on materials management practices, a typical firm spends almost half of its rupee sales on goods purchased from vendors.

Purchase department must keep PPC informed regarding lead time of different items specially where lead times are extended.

If Kwh consumption per 100 pieces is 8.01 and cost/kwh is Rs 0.80 the cost of power over the year for 40000 pieces with 2000 numbers rejection would be Rs ______.

Transit time for manufactured items should be considered only when it is insignificant.

In ABC analysis, the classification is based on :-

The assignment method is also called as :-

Order quantity

Overlapping of operations helps in compressing manufacturing time.

LOB technique was devised by US army in the year :-

Keeping procurement cost and carrying cost constant, if annual usage of certain product becomes 4 times, the EOQ would be :-

Find EOQ in Rs from the following data :-Annual consumption = 20, 000 units, Ordering and receiving cost of material = Rs 20 per order, Annual carrying cost or storage cost = 10% of unit cost of mater

Detachable ticket, after filling in required information is :-

Physical Count method of collecting information from manufacturing shops is applicable in following situation :-

XYZ analysis helps to identify few items which account for large amount of money locked up in the stock and take steps for liquidation / reduction.

In alternate routing, the delayed job may be routed to a ______ machine where rate of production is faster.

Let us suppose that activity M & N can not start until activity K & L are completed. Activities K &L are therefore :-

A progress card normally contains ______ squares.

In replenishment system, the type of ordering is either according to "stock level" or "pre-fixed time scale".

______ analysis mainly helps to identify non-existing items for which store keeps bin cards, wastes computer memory or wastes computer stationary while preparing stores ledger.

Scheduling can be considered as a process of :-