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BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE-PILANI, HYDERABAD CAMPUS

MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT (MF F242), 2016-2017, Second Semester

9th May, 2017 Comprehensive Exam (Part A)

Time: 30 minutes Max. Marks: 30

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. A foundry produces circular utility access hatches (manhole last four forecasts were 5, 6, 11, and 12 units. The Mean
covers). Currently, 120 covers are produced in a 10-hour shift. Absolute Deviation (MAD) is
If labor productivity can be increased by 20%, it would then a. 2
be b. -10
a. 14.4 covers/hr c. 3.5
b. 24 covers/hr d. 9
c. 240 valves/hr e. 10.5
d. 1200 covers/hr 8. Payoffs, alternatives, and expected monetary values are
e. none of the above terms associated with
2. Which of the following statements is true? a. virtual reality
a. Almost all services and almost all goods are a mixture of b. Product Lifecycle Management
a service and a tangible product. c. Quality Function Deployment
b. A pure good has no tangible product component. d. decision trees
c. A pure service has only a tangible product component. e. make-or-buy analysis
d. There is no such thing as a pure good. 9. Which of the following statements is not true?
e. None of the above is a true statement. a. Virtually all of Honda’s sales (autos, motorcycles,
3. According to the authors, which of the following strategic generators, lawn mowers) are based on its
concepts allow firms to achieve their missions? outstanding engine technology.
a. productivity, efficiency, and quality leadership b. Intel focuses on microprocessors and chips.
b. differentiation, cost leadership, and quick response c. Microsoft focuses on PC software.
c. differentiation, quality leadership, and quick response d. Firms such as 3M establish goals for profitability
d. distinctive competency, cost leadership, and experience from new products.
e. differentiation, distinctive competency, quality e. Dell Computers provides fast delivery to customers,
leadership, and capacity but, in return, customers may only select from a
4. Which of the following are examples of transnational firms? limited choice of hardware configurations.
a. Nestlé 10. Process X has fixed costs of $10,000 and variable costs
b. Asea Brown Boveri of $2.40 per unit. Process Y has fixed costs of $9,000
c. Reuters and variable costs of $2.25 per unit. Which of the
d. Citicorp following statements is true?
e. All of the above are transnationals. a. The crossover point is approximately 6667 units.
5. John’s House of Pancakes uses a weighted moving average b. It is impossible for one process to have both of its
method to forecast pancake sales. It assigns a weight of 5 to costs lower than those of another process.
the previous month’s demand, 3 to demand two months ago, c. Process Y is cheaper than process X at all volumes;
and 1 to demand three months ago. If sales amounted to 1000 there is no crossover point.
pancakes in May, 2200 pancakes in June, and 3000 pancakes d. Process X should be selected for very large
in July, what should be the forecast for August? production volumes.
a. 2400 e. Process X is more profitable than process Y and
b. 2511 should be selected.
c. 2067 11. The Academic Computing Center has five trainers
d. 3767 available in its computer labs to provide training sessions
e. 1622 to students. Assume that the capacity of the system is
6. Which of the following statements comparing the weighted 1900 students per semester and the utilization is 90%. If
moving average technique and exponential smoothing is the number of students who actually got their orientation
true? session is 1500, what is the efficiency of the system?
a. Exponential smoothing is more easily used in a. 1350 students
combination with the Delphi method. b. 1710 students
b. Exponential smoothing is considerably more difficult to c. 75%
implement on a computer. d. 87.7%
c. Exponential smoothing typically requires less record e. 90%
keeping of past data. 12. Which of the following statements regarding "proximity"
d. Exponential smoothing allows one to develop forecasts in the location decision is false?
for multiple periods, whereas weighted moving averages Service organizations find that proximity to market is the
does not. most critical primary location factor.
e. None of these a. Manufacturers want to be near customers when their
7. The last four months of sales were 8, 10, 15, and 9 units. The product is bulky, heavy, or fragile.
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b. Perishability of raw materials is a good reason for ______ and the minimum cycle time is ______ minutes.
manufacturers to locate near the supplier, not the a. 1.8; 1.4
customer. b. 1.6; 0.9
c. Reduction in bulk is a good reason for a manufacturer c. 6.4; 2.4
to locate near the supplier. d. 2.4; 0.9
d. Clustering among fast food chains occurs because e. none of these
they need to be near their labor supply. 15. Four of the components of job design are
13. The major problem addressed by the process-oriented a. employment stability, work schedules, work
layout strategy is sampling, motivation, and incentive systems
a. the movement of material to the limited storage areas b. job specialization, job expansion, psychological
around the site components, and self-directed teams
b. requiring frequent contact close to one another c. labor specialization and enrichment, motivation and
c. the provision of low-cost storage with low-cost incentive systems, employment stability, and work
material handling sampling
d. minimizing difficulties caused by material flow d. ergonomics and work methods, method time
varying with each product measurement, work schedules, and incentive
e. balancing product flow from one work station to the systems
next e. labor specialization, time studies, work sampling, and
14. A production line is to be designed for a job with four pre-determined time standards
tasks. The task times are 2.4 minutes, 1.4 minutes, 0.9
minutes, and 1.7 minutes. The maximum cycle time is

Answer Sheet for Multiple Choice Questions:

Write the correct option in the table below:

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**Note:
 There is only one correct option
 Each question carries 2 Marks