Industrial Engineering and Production Management Questions and Answers Part 1

Here are some basic questions and answers about Industrial Production Engineering. Hope these will help the students of IPE and Mechanical Engineering. This is the part 1 of the series of questions. New posts with new questions will be posted regularly. Thanks . And comment in the respective sections for any query about mechanical engineering.  If you want the explanation of the answers then you are very much welcome to contact me through the contact us section. Cheers !

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Industrial Engineering and Production Management Questions and Answers 

1. In Time study , Why the rating factor is applied ? Ans - fixation of incentive rate


2. Why Gantt Chart is used ? Ans - for production scheduling. 


3. What is the main purpose of value engineering ? ans - to minimize the cost without changing the quality of the product. 


4. Why Scientific Layout is used ? Ans - Minimizing production delay, increasing floor area and ensuring production quality. 


5. What Work study involues ? 
Ans -  work measurement and method study . 

6. Why A-B-C analysis is used ? 
Ans - For Inventory Control 

7. Which class of items are generally large in number in In A-B-C analysis ? 
Ans - C . 

8. PERT analysis depends on - 
Ans - Optimistic, Pessimistic and most likely time. 

9. Why Process layout is used ? 
Ans- for avoiding excessive multiplication of facilities. 

10. What is an element of Queuing Theory ? 
ans - Waiting time. 

11. What PERT requires ? 
ans- triple time estimate.

12. According to break even analysis, how total cost is got ? 
ans- by summing fixed cost and variable cost. 

13. When Bar Chart is more appropriate to use ? 
ans- for minor works. 

14. For an activity how Probabilistic time is calculated ? 
ans - By optimistic, pessimistic and most likely time. 

15. Where Line organization is suitable ? 
ans - for small organization.  

Thanks. These Questions will be helpful as these can be the practice questions for mechanical engineering job interview.