OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT QUESTION BANK

2 MARKS
UNIT -1
1. What do you mean by production management?
2. What do you mean by production system?
3. Mention the difference types of production system
4. What is job shop production?
5. Define batch production
6. What is meant by mass production?
7. What is meant by continuous production?
8. Mention two advantages of job shop production
9. Mention any two limitations of mass production
10. Mention any two advantages of batch production
11. Mention any two limitations of mass production
12. Mention any two advantages of continuous production
13. Mention any two limitations of continuous production
14. What is production function?
15. List the components of production function
16. Define production management
17. Mention the recent trends in production and operations management?
18. List the role of operation management in strategic management
19. List the factors that are considered for competitive priorities
20. Define vertical integration
21. Assimilate the meaning of control decisions.
22. Define the term production sharing
UNIT -2
1. Define Demand forecast
2. List any two determinants of demand forecast
3. Write the need for demand forecasting
4. Enumerate the demand patterns in forecasting
5. List the qualitative and quantitative methods in demand forecasting
6. What is meant by Regression analysis?
7. What is meant by Tracking Signal?
8. What is meant by correlation?
9. Brief on Delphi method
10. Define capacity planning
11. Mention the factors that affect capacity
12. State the role of long-term capacity planning
13. Distinguish between production capacity and design capacity
14. Mention the need for long-term capacity planning
15. What is meant by capacity cushion?
16. List the objectives of capacity planning
17. Write the steps in effective capacity planning
18. State the types of capacity planning
19. Define CRP (Capacity Requirement Planning).
20. Expand RCCP
21. Identify the role of aggregate planning
22. Mention the objectives of aggregate planning
23. Sequence the methods of aggregate planning
24. Mention the role of MRP
25. State the inputs of MRP system
26. State the outputs of MRP
27. Outline MRP II
28. Extend the attributes of ERP

UNIT -3
1. State the role of product Design
2. List some factors that influence product design
3. Enumerate the characteristics of product design
4. Discuss process planning
5. Analyze process strategies
6. State the characteristics of service
7. Differentiate the three types of services operation
8. Define Work study
9. Define method study
10. Advantages of method study
11. Identify the techniques of work measurement
12. Express the role of productivity?
13. What is meant by SIMO chart
14. Distinguish CAD and CIM
15. Define work study
16. Enumerate the objectives of work study
17. Define method study
18. Discuss time study in product design
19. Enlist the benefits of work study
20. Show the advantages of method study
21. Differentiate the role of motion study
22. Define the techniques of work measurement
23. Define productivity
24. Define product design
25. List the factors influencing product design
26. Mention the characteristics of product design
27. Define process
28. State process planning
29. Differentiate process selection and process strategies
30. List the major process decisions
31. Enumerate the characteristics of services
32. Mention the types of service operations

UNIT-4
1. Define material management
2. List the objectives of material management
3. State material planning
4. List the factors influencing material planning
5. Analyze the benefits of material planning
6. Define material budgeting
7. Define MMIS
8. Highlights the role of purchasing
9. List the objectives of purchase management
10. Enumerate the functions of purchasing department
11. What is meant by speculative buying?
12. What is meant by back ordering?
13. Define vendor rating
14. List the vendor rating techniques
15. List the two types of layout of stores
16. Discuss the role of inventory
17. What is meant by carrying cost?
18. Enumerate the costs involved in carrying costs
19. List few inventory control techniques
20. What is meant by Economic order Quantity( EOQ)
21. What is meant by Just In Time?
22. Mention the characteristics of JIT
23. Mention the seven wastes of JIT
24. Define value analysis

UNIT-5
1. Define project planning
2. List the elements of project management
3. Discuss project planning
4. Define project scheduling
5. State project control
6. Specify the various project scheduling techniques
7. What is meant by Gantt chart?
8. Enumerate the role of facility location
9. What is meant by PERT?
10. What is meant by critical path method?
11. Define the role of activity in a critical path
12. What is meant by Float or Slack?
13. What is meant by Independent float?
14. Analyze any two characteristics of network analyses
15. Distinguish PERT and CPM
16. Mention the softwares used for project management
17. List the theories of location
18. Mention the objectives of facilities location.
19. Why Facilities Location is important?
20. List the procedure of Location selection
21. Mention the factors of facilities Location
22. Mention the methods of Facilites Location Alternatives
23. Define facility layout
24. State the principles of facility layout
25. Mention the tools and techniques of facility layout
26. Enumerate the types of facility layout
27. Mention the merits and demerits of Product layout
28. Mention the benfits and costs of process layout.
29. Mention the merits of fixed layout
30. Write a note on cellular manufacturing.
31. List the advantages and disadvantages of Cellular Manufacturing
32. List the factors influencing facility layout
33. Mention Criteria for selection and Design of layout
34. Write down the methods of selecting and design the layout.
35. Mention the softwares of Facilites layout
36. Differentiate ALDEP and CORELAP
 16 MARKS

UNIT 1
1. Explain the production system and its importance
2. Discuss the different approaches to analyze the nature of a production system?
3. Explain detail the production function
4. Explain the recent trends in production and operations management
5. Explain role of operations management in strategic management
6. Explain the competitive priories in strategic management
7. Analyses the issues in international operations management
8. Express the influence of an operations strategy product/service plan.
9. Enumerate the five basic elements of operational excellence
10. Brief on the element of competitive priorities

UNIT 2
1. Define the role of demand forecasting
2. Discuss the different methods of Demand forecasting
3. Explain forecasting evaluation and selection method.
4. Explain capacity Planning
5. Explain the activities involved in long range capacity planning decision
6. Briefly Explain RCCP
7. Explain the role of aggregate planning
8. List and illustrate Aggregate planning method in detail
9. Discuss the information flow for planning and control with MRP?

10.Write short notes on a) MRP and MRPII b) ERP c) Bill of material

11.“Long range capacity planning is of strategic importance to an organization”

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UNIT 3
1. Outline the product design process with adequate illustration
2. Jot down the factors influencing product design
3. Analyze explicitly the various approaches to product design
4. Elaborate the legal, ethical and environmental issues related to product design
5. Describe the characteristics of product design
6. How do you source ideas for designing a new product or redesigning a product
7. Explain the various process strategies to transform resources into goods and services
8. Discuss scheduling of services in the following service system
1. hospitals 2. Banks 3. Airlines
9. Explain the strategies adopted in scheduling service operation
10. Analyse process charting with reference to the standard symbols used
11. Enumerate the steps In process planning
12. Elaborate the role of the various types of service operations
13. List the methods to improve productivity
14. analyze briefly the various steps involved in work study
15. Explain exclusively the principles of motion economy for eliminating wastefulness/
16. Describe the product design process
17. Briefly elucidate the factors influencing product design
18. analyze the various approaches to product design
19. A component is to be processed on two machines, lathe and milling machine. The sequence of
operating is first turning and then milling. Estimate the number of machines required to machine
2500 components per week if available machine hours per week are 48

UNIT 4
2. Elucidate explicitly the objectives and importance of material management
3. Analyses in detail material planning
4. Describe the material control process in management
5. Enumerate on material management information system
6. List the objectives and functions of purchase management
7. Describe purchasing policies in detail
8. Briefly illustrate the techniques involved in vendor rating
9. Enumerate value analysis and its process
10. Enumerate on stores management
11. Highlights the principles of good stores layout
12. Discuss inventory costs
 13. Describe in detail the various inventory control techniques
14. Enumerate various JIT techniques

UNIT 5

1. Elucidate their role of project management briefly analyze its elements

2. Write downthe various steps involved in drawing up a CPM network

3. Analyze the crashing of a CPM network with an illustrative example
4. Briefly elaborate project scheduling techniques
5. Illustrate in detail the facility location theories
6. Describe the probabilistic activity times and time estimates
7. Elaborate webers theory of industrial location
8. Write in detail the different types of facilities
9. Express the steps in location selection and describe each location model
10. Advocate the various principles of facility layout
11. Explain the factors affecting location Decision.
12. Elaborate the merits and demerits of the types of facility layout
13. What roles does globalization play in the facilities location problem and the give the application
areas and inputs of line of balance?
14. There are five existing facilities which are to be served by a single new facility. The details of the
existing facilities are
Existing 1 2 3 4 5
facility(I)
Coordinates(a,b) 5,10 20,5 15,20 30,25 25,5
Number of trips 100 300 200 300 100
of
loads/year(Wi)
Find the optimum location of the new facility based on the gravity location concept