Industrial Engineering and Production Management Questions and Answers Part 5

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 2 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. How to calculate The allowed time for a job ? 
ans- Standard time + policy allowance . 

2. How many fundamental hand motion is involved in micromotion study ? 
ans- 16. 

3. There are three activities in a PERT network on critical path. The mean times are 3,8 and 6. The standard deviations are 1,2 and 2 respectively. What is the probability that the project will be completed in 20 days ? 
ans- 0.84 

4. Scheduling determines what ? 
ans- Programme needed for the operation. 

5. A system of organisation was introduced by F. W. Taylor . It is known as - 
ans- Functional organization. 

6. What is the sequence of phases in value engineering ? 
ans- 1. creative phase 2. information phase 3.  investigation phase and 4. evaluation phase. 

7. When valve analysis is appreciated ? In large production scale or small production scale? 
ans- In large production scale. 

8. What are the conditions for using conveyors for transportation ? 
ans - loads should be uniform , no variation the routs and continuous movement of the material. 

9. Planning and scheduling of Mass production manufacturing differs from that of job order manufacturing . True or False ? 
ans - True . 

10. What information does scheduling gives us ? 
ans - The perfect time for starting the job and the amount of work that should be completed in a certain amount of time. 

11. Which type of layout is used for manufacturing steam turbine ? 
ans- fixed position layout, 

12. What information does Gantt chart give us ? 
ans- Information about production scheduling. 

13. When materials are checked in perpetual inventory control ? 
ans- when material reaches its minimum value. 

14. Why merit rating is used ? 
ans - To evaluate workers performance in a work. 

15. Do you think that acceptance sampling is good for mass production ? 
ans- Yes. 

16. What is Queuing theory  ? 
ans - It is the theory for determining the waiting times and queue lengths by using mathematical study. It is basically the study of waiting lines .  

17. What is the standard time for a job ? 
ans - delay contingency allowance plus the total work content time. 

18. What is the full form of PERT ? 
ans - Programme Evaluation and Review Technique

20. When bonus is paid to a worker in wage incentive system  named Emerson's efficiency plan ? 
ans - when his or hers output efficiency exceeds 67%. 

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