Industrial Engineering and Production Management Questions and Answers Part 2

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. Do you think that PERT is an event oriented technique ? Yes or No . 
ans - Yes. 

2. Which  chart gives simultaneous information of work progress and machine loading?
ans- Man-machine chart. 

3. In value engineering what is the meaning of value ? 
ans- utility of the product

4. Why work sampling is applied ? 
ans-  for estimating the percentage utilization of machine tools, estimating percentage time, finding time study in certain situations. 

5. Production costs means - 
ans- Prime cost + Factory overhead . 

6. A systematic job improvement sequence consists - 
ans- motion study + job enrichment + time study 

7. Do you think that line balancing problem and transportation problem can be solved by Linear programming model  ? 
ans - Yes . 

8. Which chart gives an estimation of amount of materials handling between various work stations ? 
ans- travel chart. 

9. which is the device used for  lifting or lowering objects suspended from a hook at the end of retractable chains or cable ? 
ans - Hoist. 

10. What a flow diagram generally shows ? 
ans - The path followed by materials and men while doing a job. 

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