Faculty of Engineering

Industrial Engineering Department,3rd year

Sheet 5 Work Sampling

1- pply the rank order clustering technique to the part-machine incidence matrix in the following table to identify
logical part families and machine groups. Parts are identified by letters, and machines are identified numerically.
Parts
Machines A B C D E

1 1
2 1 1
3 1 1
4 1 1
5 1

Solution:
Step 1 Step 2
A B C D E Rank A B C D E

1 1 2 3 1 1

2 1 1 4 1 1

3 1 1 1 4 1 1

4 1 1 3 2 1 1

5 1 5 5 1

Rank 1 3 4 2 5

Step 3 Step 4
A D B C E Rank A D B C E

3 1 1 1 3 1 1

1 1 2 1 1

4 1 1 4 5 1

2 1 1 5 4 1 1

5 1 3 2 1 1

Part families and machine groups: I = (A, D) and (3,1,5), II = (B, C, E) and (4, 2).
2- Apply the rank order clustering technique to the part-machine incidence matrix in the following table to identify
logical part families and machine groups. Parts are identified by letters, and machines are identified numerically.
Parts
Machines A B C D E F

1 1 1
2 1 1
3 1 1
4 1 1
5 1 1
6 1 1 1

Solution:
Step 1 Step 2
A B C D E F Rank A B C D E F

1 1 1 2 3 1 1

2 1 1 6 1 1 1

3 1 1 1 5 1 1

4 1 1 5 6 1 1 1

5 1 1 3 4 1 1

6 1 1 1 4 2 1 1

Rank 1 2 5 4 3 6

Step 3
A B E D C F Rank Part families and machine groups:

3 1 1 1 I = (A, B, E) and (3, 1, 5)

1 1 1 2 II = (D, C, F) and (6, 4, 2)

5 1 1 3

6 1 1 1 4

4 1 1 5

2 1 1 6
3- Apply the rank order clustering technique to the part-machine incidence matrix in the following table to identify
logical part families and machine groups. Parts are identified by letters, and machines are identified numerically.
Parts

Machines A B C D E F G H I

1 1 1

2 1 1

3 1 1 1

4 1 1 1

5 1 1

6 1 1

7 1 1

8 1 1

Solution:
Step 1 Step 2

A B C D E F G H I Rank A B C D E F G H I

1 1 1 2 7 1 1

2 1 1 4 1 1 1

3 1 1 1 5 4 1 1 1

4 1 1 1 3 2 1 1

5 1 1 7 3 1 1 1

6 1 1 8 8 1 1

7 1 1 1 5 1 1

8 1 1 6 6 1 1

Rank 1 5 7 2 8 6 4 9 3

Step 3 Step 4

A D I G B F C E H Rank A D I G B F C E H

7 1 1 1 7 1 1

1 1 1 2 1 1 1

4 1 1 1 3 4 1 1 1

2 1 1 4 2 1 1

3 1 1 1 6 6 1 1

8 1 1 7 3 1 1 1

5 1 1 8 8 1 1

6 1 1 5 5 1 1

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Part families and machine groups: I = (A, D, I) and (7, 1)

II = (G, B, F) and (4, 2, 6)
III = (C, E, H) and (3, 8, 5)
4- The following table lists the weekly quantities and routings of ten parts that are being considered for cellular
manufacturing in a machine shop. Parts are identified by letters and machines are identified numerically. For the
data given, (a) develop the part-machine incidence matrix, and (b) apply the rank order clustering technique to the
part-machine incidence matrix to identify logical part families and machine groups.
Part Weekly quantity Machine routing Part Weekly quantity Machine routing
A 50 327 F 60 51
B 20 61 G 5 3 2  4
C 75 65 H 100 3 2  4  7
D 10 651 I 40 247
E 12 3274 J 15 561
Solution: (a) See step 1. (b) See steps 1 through 4.
Step 1 Step 2
A B C D E F G H I J Ran A B C D E F G H I J
k

1 1 1 1 1 5 2 1 1 1 1 1

2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1

3 1 1 1 1 2 7 1 1 1 1

4 1 1 1 1 7 6 1 1 1 1

5 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 1 1

6 1 1 1 1 4 5 1 1 1 1

7 1 1 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 1

Ran 3 8 9 6 1 10 4 2 5 7
k

Step 3 Step 4

E H A G I D J B C F Rank E H A G I D J B C F

2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1

3 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 1

7 1 1 1 1 3 7 1 1 1 1

6 1 1 1 1 5 4 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 6 6 1 1 1 1

5 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 1 1 1

4 1 1 1 1 4 5 1 1 1 1

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Part families and machine groups: I = (E, H, A, G, I) and (2, 3, 7, 4)

II = (D, J, B, C, F) and (6, 1, 5)