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MS 53 (January 2025 - July 2025) - ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code:MS-53

Course Title;Production/Operations Management

Assignment Code:MS-53/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. What is Quality Function Deployment? How can the customer's voice be translated into a product's design specification by employing QFD? Explain with suitable examples.

2. What is demand forecasting in Operations Management? What are the various types of forecasting methods that you have studied in this course? Discuss the Delphi study as a forecasting tool. Explain the guidelines, its advantages and disadvantages of Delphi. Suggest some variants.

3. What do you mean by dependent demand and independent demand? What are the key attributes of a dependent demand item? Explain with one example each from manufacturing and service organizations.

4. What is Value Chain Analysis, and what are its main elements? Describe the CAD and CAM systems in Operations Management. Can they be integrated? If so, give details of how it works.

5. What is work measurement? Explain various work measurement techniques.

MS 53 (January 2025 - July 2025) - ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code:MS-53

Course Title:Production/Operations Management

Assignment Code:MS-53/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. What is Quality Function Deployment? How can the customer's voice be translated into a product's design specification by employing QFD? Explain with suitable examples.

2. What is demand forecasting in Operations Management? What are the various types of forecasting methods that you have studied in this course? Discuss the Delphi study as a forecasting tool. Explain the guidelines, its advantages and disadvantages of Delphi. Suggest some variants.

3. What do you mean by dependent demand and independent demand? What are the key attributes of a dependent demand item? Explain with one example each from manufacturing and service organizations.

4. What is Value Chain Analysis, and what are its main elements? Describe the CAD and CAM systems in Operations Management. Can they be integrated? If so, give details of how it works.

5. What is work measurement? Explain various work measurement techniques.

MS 53 (January 2026 - July 2026) - ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code : MS-53

Course Title : Production/Operations Management

Assignment Code : MS-53/TMA/JAN/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. Illustrate how the TQM concept can integrate design, engineering, manufacturing and services. Explain why quality should be better by following the TQM concept than in a system that depends on final inspection.

2. How does a quantitative forecasting differ from a qualitative forecasting? What do you understand by time series analysis?

3. What relationship exists between layout decision, capacity decisions & scheduling? Define and describe the operating capacity of a college of business administration. How should its capacity be measured?

4. Discuss preventive maintenance. In what ways is preventive maintenance absolutely necessary in JIT/ kanban/ pull manufacturing as opposed to push manufacturing.

5. Describe the CAD and CAM system in Operations Management. Can they be integrated? If so give details of its working.

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