Assignment

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code : MS - 5

Course Title : Management of Machines and Materials

Assignment Code : MS-5/SEM - I/2011

Coverage : All Blocks

Note: Answer all the questions and send them to the Coordinator of the Study Centre you are attached with.

Q1. Elaborate the concept of Systems Life-Cycle in Operations Management.

Q2. Define work measurement. What are the various methods of work measurement? Discuss work sampling.

Q3. What are the objectives of Value Engineering? Discuss how to organize VE/VA function in a tractor manufacturing firm.

Q4. Write an essay on Statistical Quality Control.

Q5. Discuss the various vendor evaluation and rating.

Q6. Explain how would you proceed in designing a waste disposal system for a steel plant.

concept of life cycle in operations management

1. Introduction

Every organization has an objective or objectives and goals to achieve. These objectives and goals achieving can be possible only when management organizing the available recourses in a suitable structure with a plan. The whole process of achieving objectives like planning, organizing and implementation and correction process by means of feedback bring together by operation management. The physical resources like space, machinery, money and men who organize those physical will take major role in the operation management.

The objectives related to both performance and cost, decision making process related production or operation of the organization, strategic and operational and feedback control system will play important role in deciding life cycle of any organization. The various stages and their life span each stage life cycle of system is discussed in the next section.

2. Life cycle concept

Life cycle concept is applied in operational management for any production system which takes input and produces some out put by using some process. The production system may be mass production, batch production, Job shop production or unit...