BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI
MF F219: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Mid Semester Examination: Closed Book
Max Marks: 60 Duration: 90 minutes Date: 18/3/2023
Note: Justify your each answer. Partial marks will not be awarded if justification is incorrect or multiple answers
are written.
Q1.
The following set of four jobs is to be processed through three machines in a XYZ company following the mass
production. The sequence is first turning on a lathe machine, then drilling on radial drilling machine and finally
finishing on a grinding machine. Processing time in minutes at each machine is shown in the Table 1.
a) Determine the optimal order in which the jobs should be processed, so that the entire set of jobs is
completed as soon as possible. [6]
b) Make a Gantt chart to map out the schedule on each machine for optimal order. [6]
c) What is the total length of time of this schedule? [3]
d) Determine the idle time for each machine? [3]
Jobs Lathe Drilling Grinding Course
Professor 1 2 3 4 5
1 4 3 8 1 2 1 4 5
A
2 3 7 5 B 5 4 3 2 1
C 4 1 2 3 5
3 1 2 7
D 4 2 2 1 3
4 3 4 2 E 2 4 4 4 1
Table 1 Table 2
Q2.
A university needs to assign professors to teach courses in the next semester. As a criterion for judging who should
teach each course, the student feedback of the past 4 years is reviewed. Since each of the five professors taught each of
the five courses at one time or another during the 4-year period, a course rating for each faculty is recorded (with 5
being best) and shown in the Table 2. Assign the professors to courses to maximize the overall teaching rating. [10]
Q3.
Following activities are required to be completed to get the new laboratory built and the equipment installed in the
mechanical department of an educational institute.
a) How many weeks will the lab take to complete? [4]
b) Which activities, and how much can be delayed without delaying the completion time? [3]
c) Suppose activity F and activity C each could be shortened by one week. How would this affect the completion
time? [2]
d) If the lab has to be built in 22 weeks, then how much extra cost would be incurred to compete by this time?
[3]
e) Department gets a penalty of $4500 per week, for every week the lab is not completed. In how many weeks the
lab will be completed if department is willing to pay crashing cost as long as it is less than $4500 per week?
[6]
Normal Normal Crash Time Crash
Activity Predecessors
Time (Weeks) Cost ($) (Weeks) Cost ($)
A - 5 7,000 3 13,000
B A 10 12,000 7 18,000
C A 8 5,000 7 7,000
D B 6 4,000 5 5,000
E C 7 3,000 6 6,000
F C 4 6,000 3 7,000
G D, E, F 4 7,000 3 9,000
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Q4.
A manual assembly line is to be designed to make a small consumer product. The work elements, their times, and
precedence constraints are given in the table below. The workers will operate the line for 420 min per day and must
produce 300 products per day. A mechanized belt, moving at a speed of 1.25 m/min, will transport the products
between stations. Previous experience suggests that the up time efficiency for the line will be 95%, and repositioning
time lost per cycle will be 0.03 min.
a) Determine the theoretical minimum number of workers on the line. [2]
b) Balance the line using the rank positional weight method and calculate its efficiency. [12]
Element Time (Min.) Preceded by Element Time Preceded by
1 0.4 - 6 0.2 3
2 0.7 1 7 0.3 4
3 0.5 1 8 0.9 4, 9
4 0.8 2 9 0.3 5, 6
5 1.0 2, 3 10 0.5 7, 8
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