PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

LONG QUESTIONS

MARCH 2013
1. Definitions of Production Management (2), Production management application to
manufacturing, services and retailing and trading.
2. Difference between intermittent and continuous production system
3. Principles of material handling
4. Importance of production management
5. Techniques of plant (business) location
6. Problems/disadvantages of industrial concentration. Government measures to tackle them.
7. Derivation of ERL quantity formula
8. Various inventory costs

OCTOBER 2012
1. Importance of Production management
2. Define Plant layout. Explain Cellular layout, Service layout, Hybrid layout and Fixed position
layout.
3. Process of business location selection. What factors shall you consider to decide location of a
self financed engineering college?
4. Define Production and Production Management. Interaction of production management with HR
and Marketing Management
5. Techniques of business location selection
6. Classification of material handling equipments
7. Derivation of ERL quantity

MARCH 2012
1. Importance of Production management
2. Seven principles of material handling
3. Two techniques of material handling
4. Production management application to manufacturing, services and retailing and trading.
5. Differentiate between product layout and process layout
6. Seven factors affecting plant location selection
7. Selective inventory control

OCTOBER 2011
1. Define material handling. classification of material handling equipments
2. Importance of production management.
3. Derive EOQ formula with assumptions of basic model

MARCH 2011
1. Differentiate between product layout and process layout
2. Interaction of production department with finance and marketing department
3. Derivation of ERL quantity (ERLQ)

OCTOBER 2010
1. Various of plant layout
2. Benefits of inventory
3. Reasons of accumulation of non-moving inventories. Discuss how to get rid of it
MARCH 2010
1. Difference between intermittent and continuous production system
2. Classification of material handling equipments

OCTOBER 2009
1. VED analysis, FSN analysis for inventory management
2. Define inventory and inventory control and derive formula for EOQ and ERL model, giving
assumptions and limitations
3. Benefits / objectives of inventory
4. Production function relation with other functions
5. Classification of material handling equipments

MARCH 2009
1. ABC analysis
2. Derive formula for EOQ and ERL model, giving assumptions and limitations
3. Scope of production management / responsibilities of production manager

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SHORT QUESTIONS