IGNOU MS 5 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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MS 05 (January 2025 - July 2025) - ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code MS-05 :

Course Title : Management of Machines and Materials

Assignment Code : MS-05/TMA/JAN/2025

Coverage : All Blocks

Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment to the coordinator of your study centre. Last date of submission for January 2025 session is 30th April, 2025 and for July 2025 session is 31 October, 2025.

1. "Product development and design is basically a research and development activity". Elaborate the statement with suitable example.

2. What is work sampling? Why is it called a fact-finding tool? Describe some uses of work sampling.

3. Practical job shops are much more complicated and may have hundreds of matching centers and thousands of jobs. Comment! Why do we resort to priority dispatching rules for sequencing jobs at each machine centre? Describe these rules.

4. How can FAST diagram act as a Value Engineering tool? Explain the basic methodology of FAST diagrams with the help of an example.

5. Write a brief note on need and role of classification, codification and standardization in the context of materials management from the viewpoint of planning, control, purchase and inventory management.

MS 05 (January 2026 - July 2026) - ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code : : MS-05

Course Title : : Management of Machines and Materials

Assignment Code : : MS-05/TMA/Sem-I/2026

Coverage : : All Blocks

Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment to the coordinator of your study centre. Last date of submission for January 2026 session is 30th April, 2026 and for July 2026 session is 31st October, 2026.

1. Explain the objectives of Operations Management and discuss how strategic and operational decisions, supported by effective planning, control, and feedback, help an organisation achieve efficiency, customer satisfaction, and cost effectiveness

2. Enumerate the basic types of plant layouts. How does a cellular layout differ from a process layout? Discuss the various factors that should be considered while designing an effective plant layout.

3. Define job design. List the important factors that must be addressed in job design and briefly discuss the importance of each one.

4. Why should maintenance not be viewed merely as a repair function? Discuss its role in improving capacity utilisation and explain the concept of tero-technology as a total life-cycle approach to effective maintenance.

5. What do you understand by automated storage and retrieval? For what kinds of goods, do you think such systems would be appropriate?

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