1. Operations Management Assignment No. 2
1. Briefly discuss the functions of Production Management.
2. Distinguish between Production and Operations Management.
3. Distinguish between Mass Production and Batch Production.
4. The term Operations Management implies the applicability of production concept to a
much wider variety of human endeavours. Explain.
5. What is production capacity? Explain the concept.
6. Dr. Mittal has been in the field of hospital administration for last 20 years. Recently he
has been posted as the chief of a district level hospital. On assuming services he came to
know that not everything is good at the hospital. The main problems faced by the hospital
included:
a. Problems with storage of medical and non-medical items.
b. Poor patient feeding – Quality of food supplied to the patients.
c. Non availability of ambulance, at the time of need.
d. Break down of X-Ray facility for a long time.
Dr. Mittal decided to take professional help and sent out an advertisement in a local
newspaper. One fine day a neatly dressed young man came to meet Dr. Mittal for the
position. He told Dr. Mittal that he has been working in a middle sized factory as a
production manager. Dr. Mittal was astonished to hear about the background of the
person. Assuming that you are that person, explain to Dr. Mittal how you would be the
most suitable person for the job.
7. Why work study? Explain the need and rationale for study of work. What is its scope?
8. Work measurement follows method analysis. Discuss, why?
9. What is ergonomics? Discuss its relevance to method study.
10. What is work sampling? Of what value is it to management?
11. What do you understand by the term job standard? What is its importance?
12. What do you mean by the term inventory? Give classification of inventory.
13. What are the various costs associated with inventory?
14. Differentiate between PERT and CPM.
15. Explain the different types of floats.
16. What do you understand by the term network crashing?
17. Differentiate between the concept of ‘estimated time’ and ‘most likely time’.
18. Discuss how automation is used in service industry. Give examples for at least 2 different
industries.
19. Explain the term predictive maintenance.
20. Differentiate between Factor Rating Method and Point Rating Method of Layout
planning.
21. Explain the concept of ABC analysis.
22. Compare and contrast between the P Type and Q type of EOQ models.
23. Explain the concept of Economic Order Quantity.
24. Distinguish between quality control and inspection.
25. What is SQC? Explain how is it useful in solving problems in any industry.
26. Explain how X-bar chart and R chart help in an organization.
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