Production And Operations Management 1st Edition McGraw-Hill Education India - Solutions

3. What problems do you expect Amit to encounter this summer-both at Khana Khazana-on wheels and at other institutions? Amit Gupta is 43, married and has two children, aged 10 and 14. He has a master's degree in education and teaches music in a high school in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India.
4. If you were Amit, what would you do? Why? Amit Gupta is 43, married and has two children, aged 10 and 14. He has a master's degree in education and teaches music in a high school in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India. Amit's father passed away two months ago, leaving his only child an unusual
1. The process designed to transform a set of input elements into a set of output elements is known as (a) Transformation process (b) Transformation of input to output (c) Production (d) Technology change
2. Conversion of inputs into outputs is known as (a) Application technology (c) Manufacturing products (b) Operations management (d) Product
3. POM is applicable (a) Mostly to the service sector (c) To manufacturing and service sector (b) Mostly to the manufacturing sector (d) To services exclusively
4. An example of non-physical way of production is (a) Production of oil (c) Production of information (b) Production of mineral water (d) Production of agriculture products
5. Important aims of production management are (a) Efficiency, effectiveness and consumer satisfaction (b) Use machinery carefully and avoid accidents (c) Use material optimally and avoid scrap (d) To give whatever the consumer needs and take minimum profit from him
6. The desired objective of production and operations management is (a) Use cheap machinery for production (b) To train unskilled workers to manufacture goods perfectly (c) Optimal utilization of available resources (d) To earn good profits
7. The most important benefit to the consumer from efficient production system is (a) He can save money (b) He will have product of his choice easily available (c) He gets increased use value in product (d) He can get the product on credit
8. In job production system, we need (a) More unskilled labour (b) Skilled labour (c) Semi-skilled labour (d) Old people
9. In continuous manufacturing system, we need (a) General purpose machines and skilled labour (b) Special machine tools and highly skilled labour (c) Semi-automatic machines and unskilled labour (d) General purpose machines and unskilled labour
10. The number of product varieties that can be manufactured in mass production is (a) Only one (b) Only two (c) Few varieties in large volumes (d) Large varieties in small volumes
11. The distinction between production and operations is best described as (a) Production is automobile manufacturing; operations is everything else (b) Production is heavy manufacturing; operations is light manufacturing (c) Production makes goods; operations delivers services (d) Operations are
12. State whether the following statements are True or False. (a) A productive system approach views production/operations as a separate organizational function.(b) The responsibilities of production and operations manager include forecasting, designing, ac- counting and financing.
1. Organizations may be viewed as a set system. The system view is important to the operations manager since (a) production/operations system is part of the firm or organization and (b) within the production/ operations function, there are subsystems. Explain.
2. Explain the conversion process.
3. Define the terms 'production' and 'production management'.
4. Mention the responsibilities of a production manager. Explain how a production manager amalgamates the 5 P's, namely, product, plant, process, programme and people.
5. Explain the major functions of a production manager.
6. Give a brief account of the historical evolution of operations management.
7. List out the major differences between goods production and service production.
8. Discuss the recent trends in operations management and explain how these trends have helped im- prove the efficiency of operations.
9. Distinguish between continuous, batch and job production. Explain in brief.
10. "The term operations management implies the applicability of production concept to a much wider variety of human endeavours." Explain.
11. Discuss the types of decision that are involved in crafting an effective process design.
12. Describe the characteristics of modern production management.
13. Differentiate between manufacturing, production and operations management.

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