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Spring 2012
Master of Business Administration - Semester 4 OM0015 – Maintenance Management - 4 Credits (Book ID: B1340) Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. 1. Briefly explain the maintenance systems that are practiced in production/service units by providing few examples. 2. What are the three stages in the lifecycle management of any machinery? Explain in brief the Life cycle management system
3. Explain briefly the metrics that can be developed by the maintenance department to identify the gap and take action to achieving the desired level of performance 4. Distinguish between preventive and breakdown maintenance 5. “Organisations normally adopt a combination of one or more of the above methods. And these options are justified if the resultant savings are more than the total costs associated with any one of these methods” –Substantiate this statement. 6. A valuable tool for improving maintenance effectiveness is to use fault tree analysis. What does this tree means and how it is used as a valuable tool for electrical, hydraulic and other complex systems in isolating physical components using circuits and attends to the problem?
Spring 2012
Master of Business Administration - Semester 4 OM0015 – Maintenance Management - 4 Credits (Book ID: B1340) Assignment Set- 2 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. 1. What are the maintenance planning principles? How they contribute to the success of planning? 2. Explain briefly the ABC classification and reasons behind recommending ABC and VED classifications for managing inventory of spare parts for maintenance? 3. Explain briefly how the principles of scheduling, when followed, will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the maintenance management? 4. Explain briefly the five levels of data developed in UMS 5. Explain briefly the importance of ‘Depreciation’ and its disposition while calculating the capital expenditure of the equipment to be replaced. What are the depreciation methods that are normally used in an organisation? 6. What are the ranges that we can normally expect for each of the OCE factors? Explain how an improvement in 10 % of wrench time will offer 25% improvement in utilisation of the crew and hence the OCE.
Spring 2012
Master of Business Administration - Semester 4 OM0016 – Quality Management 4 Credits (Book ID: B1341) Assignment Set 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. Q1. Elucidate a relationship between strategy and data quality. Q2. Briefly describe Deming's 14 points philosophy. Elucidate Juran's trilogy in brief. Q3. Describe the evolution of Six Sigma in General Electric. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Six Sigma in brief. Q4. What were the improvements made to QMS? Why do think management responsibility is an essential requirement of QMS? Q5. Explain the goals and programs of strategic plan. What are the reasons of failure of the strategic plans? Q6. What are the characteristics of Ideal indicator? What are the two Six Sigma models undertaken for Quality improvement?
Spring 2012
Master of Business Administration - Semester 4 OM0016 – Quality Management 4 Credits (Book ID: B1341) Assignment Set 2 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. Q1. What are the different types of Reliability estimates? What are the important components of retest reliability? Q2. What are the different types of Quality Costs? What is the relevance of Cost and Schedule Information in an organisation? Q3. What are the basic steps involved in audit reporting? Explain. What is the purpose of product auditing? Q4. What is quality culture? Explain the five key drivers that are essential for developing quality culture. Q5. For modern products, explain the concepts on what on which design reviews are based Q6. What are the five dimensions of the quality that were identified by the SERVQUAL model?
Spring 2012
Master of Business Administration - Semester 4 OM0017 - Advanced Production Planning and Control 4 Credits (Book ID: B1342) Assignment: Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. 1. Explain briefly the main tasks of dispatching, inspecting, expediting, evaluating and controlling inventory and so on by production controls department. 2. Explain briefly the functions of planning in “Facility Planning” for production activities? 3. What are the merits and demerits of batch production? Briefly explain the salient features of PPC for Job production. 4. How do you classify forecasts? Explain Time Series Methods. 5. Explain inventory Management and Control. List the benefits of inventory control. 6. Define deterministic model of inventory control. Explain how economic order quantity can be calculated by model 1.
Spring 2012
Master of Business Administration - Semester 4 OM0017 - Advanced Production Planning and Control 4 Credits (Book ID: B1342) Assignment: Set - 2 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. 1. Write a note on: a) Lean Manufacturing and b) Agile Manufacturing 2. Differentiate between forward and backward scheduling. Explain automation and the drawbacks associated with automation 3. Explain in brief about Priority Rules for Scheduling? 4. Bring out the differences between productivity and flexibility. And is productivity compromised by introducing flexibility in the manufacturing process? Comment 5. Explain in brief the Goldratt’s “Theory of constraint” and the five focused steps of TOC recommended for solving the constraints/ problems. 6. Explain make or buy decisions and when it is appropriate to consider each respectively.
Spring 2012
Master of Business Administration - Semester 4 OM0018 – Technology Management 4 Credits (Book ID: B1326) Assignment: Set - 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. Q1. Define the term technology. Write a short note on evolution and growth of technology. Q2. Citing an example, state and explain the reasons that compel a company to go for the new technology. Q3. Describe some characteristics of technology forecasting. Explain in brief about the six phases in technology forecasting process. Q4. Write a short note on technology strategy. Explain in brief about the innovation management. Q5. What is the importance of technology diffusion? What are the benefits of technology absorption? Q6. Explain the implementation of new technology. Briefly describe the automation decisions.
 Spring 2012
Master of Business Administration - Semester 4 OM0018 – Technology Management 4 Credits (Book ID: B1326) Assignment: Set - 2 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. Q1. Explain Technology Generation. Explain Technology Development. Discuss the importance Technology Generation and Development. Q2. Explain the dimensions of technology transfer and features of technology package. Q3. Briefly describe the concept of technology choice. List and explain the steps involved in technology assessment process. Q4. Briefly explain the factors influencing the high performance innovative technology based organisations. Q5. What is Research and Development (R&D), and how is it managed? Explain the different categories of Intellectual Property Management. Q6. Discuss the technology assessment and environmental impact analysis.

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