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ASSIGNMENT

Course Code : MS - 5

Course Title : Management of Machine & Materials

Assignment Code : MS-57/SEM - II/2010

Coverage : All Blocks

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

Shared by Disha Mathur & Ritu Mirchandani

( This document is taken from http://en.allexperts.com some extra editions have been done by our classmates)

1) Discuss the Linkage among the volume, variety, Production System and Plant Layout. Elaborate your understanding about assembly line balancing.

Volume is how much three-dimensional space a substance (solid, liquid, gas,

or plasma) or shape occupies or contains,[1] often quantified numerically using the SI

derived unit, the cubic metre. The volume of a container is generally understood to be the

capacity of the container, i. e. the amount of fluid (gas or liquid) that the container could

hold, rather than the amount of space the container itself displaces. The volume of a solid

(whether regularly or irregularly shaped) can be determined by fluid displacement.

Displacement of liquid can also be used to determine the volume of a gas. The combined

volume of two substances is usually greater than the volume of one of the substances.

However, sometimes one substance dissolves in the other and the combined volume is

not additive.

Variety is a weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New

York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture

industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by

Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the Daily Variety Gotham edition, based in New York City

was added. All three have been in continual operation since.The magazine is owned by

Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, with three print editions and a

website. For twenty years its editor-in-chief was Peter Bart, who worked previously at...