EVALUATION PROGRAMME

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT IC 402

POSTAL TEST PAPER - 1 MARKS:100 Answer all the questions. This is an open book test. You may use our study material while answering this test. Please send Xerox copy of your answers to (Upto one week before start of commencement) Director (Evaluation Programme ), AMIE(I) Study Circle (Regd.), P.B. No. 77, Sultan Tower, Roorkee- 247667 (a) Discuss planning as a major activity of management. (b) Distinguish between (i) (ii) Dispatching and expediting Master scheduling and loading (5) (5) DURATION:3 Hours

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(c) What are the general conditions for which preventive maintenance is appropriate for a single machine ? (5) (d) Discuss the Maslows theory of hierarchy of human wants. Q.2. (5)

(a)The yearly sales figure of a consumer product expressed in suitable units for the last 10 years is given below : YEAR Sales units 1984 50 1985 65 1986 75 1987 80 1988 75 1989 95 1990 105 1991 100 1992 115 1993 125

Using a linear regression model establish the sales pattern and forecast the expected sales for year 1994. (5) (b) Explain the principal features of the bath tub curve. (c) Discuss briefly the main stages of bringing a new product to the market right from its creation. (d) Define (i) Preventive maintenance (ii) Corrective maintenance Q.3. (a) What do you mean by materials management? What are its objectives? (b) What are functions of purchase management? What are different methods of purchasing? (c) What is zero-base budgeting and what are its uses ? (d) Write short explanatory notes on Gantt chart. Q.4. (a) Explain ABC analysis of inventory control. (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (5)

(b) The actual demand for a product for the last three months are shown below. The forecast for April was 100 units. With a smoothing constant of 0.20 and using first order exponential smoothing, what is the July forecast ? What do you think about a 0.20 smoothing constant ? Month April May
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(c) The sequencing relationship between the activities in a project is Activity A B C D E Immediate predecessor A A B,C

The normal and crash times duration of the activities and, the corresponding costs have been estimated. The table given below furnishes these values : Activity Normal time (weeks) A B C D E 2 5 4 6 4 Crash time (weeks) 2 3 3 5 2 Normal cost (Rs. 1000) 10 20 15 20 8 Crash cost ( Rs. 1000 ) 10 36 19 35 14 (10) ( 2 x 10 )

What is the cost of expediting the project by (I) one week (ii) two weeks (iii) three weeks Q.5. True and False

1. The downtime period for any equipment will be always less through preventive maintenance as against break down maintenance. 2. Simple exponential smoothing does not take care of trend( in the demand ) at all. 3. When a selection is to be made between two mutually exclusive projects. The NPV and IRR criteria always will indicate the same preference. 4. When the total float of any activity is zero then the free float of the same activity is also zero. 5. The critical path of a project always remains unchanged if some activities are expedited. 6. Functional types of organisation was first proposed by F.W. Taylor. 7. Break even analysis is a method which analyses the cost, volume and profit relationship. 8. The concept of division of labour was first proposed by F.W. Taylor. 9. In ABC analysis, the A items are the largest percentage quantity of items in inventory. 10. In the EOQ model, at the optimum point the holding costs are half of the ordering costs.

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ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT