INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT QUIZ

Service time in queuing theory is usually assumed to follow

Poisson’s distribution

Normal distribution

Erlang distribution

Exponential law

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A diagram showing the path followed by men and materials while performing a task is known as

Flow diagram

String diagram

Flow process chart

Travel chart

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The term 'value' in value engineering refers to

Selling price of the product

Utility of the product

Total cost of the product

Manufactured cost of the product

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Process layout is also known as

Analytical-layout

Static product layout

Synthetic layout

None of these

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The probability distribution of project completion in PERT follows following distribution

Gaussian

Exponential

Normal

Binomial

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Merit rating is the method of determining the

Worth of a machine

Relative values of a job

Workers performance on a job

Value of overall production

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Which one of the following represents a group incentive plan?

Taylor Differential Piece Rate System

Halsey Premium Plan

Rowan Plan

Scanlon Plan

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In order that linear programming techniques provide valid results

Relations between factors must be linear (positive)

Either (A) or (B)

Only one factor should change at a time, others remaining constant

Relations between factors must be linear (negative)

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If TL is the largest allowable event occurrence time, total activity slack (s) is equal to

TLEFT

Latest finish time earliest finish time (EFT)

All of these

Latest start time earliest start time

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The aim of value engineering is to

All of these

Minimize the cost without change in quality of the product

Find the depreciation value of a machine

Determine the selling price of a product

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