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ESE Online Test Series : 2015

Conventional Paper
ME : MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Test No. - 8 | Industrial Engineering
Date: 15-03-2015

Duration: 1

| Subjectwise Test

hrs.

Maximum Marks: 100

Read the following instructions carefully

1. Candidate should attempt any FOUR questions out of five. Each question carries 25 marks.
2. Marks carried by each subdivision of a question is indicated at the end of subdivision.
3. Answers must be written only in ENGLISH.
4. Assume suitable data, if necessary, and indicate the same clearly.
5. Neat sketches may be drawn, wherever required.
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Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering

Q.1 (a) List the basic principles of plant layout.

[5 marks]
(b) The following table gives the month-wise actual demand of units of some product :
Month

March

April

May

June

July

August

Demand (Units)

350

440

450

460

495

510

The forecasted demand for the month of March was 400 units.
The firm use exponential smoothing method with smoothing factor 0.2 to forecast demand.
(i) Calculate the tracking signal for the model.
(ii) Comment on the smoothing factor.
[10 marks]
(c) Data for the test results of 17 samples of 300 items are shown below. Draw p-chart.
Sample
Number

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

Number of
defectives

30

36

33

27

33

39

24

24

12

39

18

27

24

33

21

30

[10 marks]
Q.2 (a) What do you understand by value engineering ? Explain the importance of human dynamics in
value engineering.
[7 marks]
(b) There are seven jobs, each of which has to go through the machines A and B in the order AB.
Processing times in hours are gives as
Job :

M/C A

12

15

10

11

M/C B

10

10

12

Determine a sequence of these jobs that will minimize the total elapsed time T. Also find T and idle
time for machines A and B.
[10 marks]
(c) In making a time study of a laboratory technician performing an analysis of processed food in a
canning factory, the following times were noted for a particular operation.
Run
Operation
time (sec)

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

21 21 16 19 20 16 20 19 19 20 40 19 21 18 23 19 15 18 18 19 21 20 20 19

If the technicians performance has been rated at 120% and the company policy for allowance
(personal, fatigue etc) stipulates 13%,
(i) Determine the normal time
(ii) Determine the standard time
Watch readings falling 50% above and 25% below the average may be considered as abnormal.
[8 marks]

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Q.3 (a) Explain the difference between anX-chart and on R-chart ? Why are they used together ?
[5 marks]
(b) For determining the sample size of stopwatch study, seven sets of observation are taken. These
are 9, 8, 9, 10, 8, 9 and 8 units of time (1 time = 0.01 minute). Find the approximate sample size for
a confidence level of 95 % and 5 % accuracy level.
[10 marks]
(c) (i) What are the symbols and activity names used in method study for charting of the processes?
[5 marks]
(c) (ii) What is loading and scheduling ? Name the different techniques of loading and scheduling.
[5 marks]
Q.4 (a) A mother notes that when her teenaged son uses the mobile phone, he takes no less than
10 minutes for a call and sometimes as much as one hour. Twenty-minute calls are more frequent
than calls for any other duration. If sons phone call were an activity in a PERT project :
(i) What would be the phone calls expected duration ?
(ii) What would be its variance ?
(iii) In scheduling the project, how much time would be allocated for the phone call?
[12 marks]
(b) A contractor has to supply 10,000 bearings per day to an automobile company. He finds that when
he starts a production run, he can produces 25000 bearings per day. The cost of holding a bearing
in stock for one year is 0.1 and the set up cost of a production run is ` 180. How frequently should
production run be mode ? [1 year = 365 days]
[13 marks]
Q.5 (a) Write down all the steps for solving assignment problems by Hungarian method.
[6 marks]
(b) A manufactures sells his products for ` 5 a piece. The variable costs are ` 2 per unit and the fixed
cost is ` 60,000. Calculate :
(i) Break-even-point.
(i) To earn a profit of ` 10,000 an additional cost of ` 3,000 is required on advertisement etc, what
should be the minimum sales volume for this ?
(iii) Find the sales volume at double the profit.
[13 marks]
(c)

Compare JIT and Traditional production system in respect of following factors :

Inventory
Deliveries
Lot sizes
Setup
Vendors
Workers
[6 marks]

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