This document contains a question bank with topics related to work study and productivity across 5 units. The units cover concepts of productivity, work study, method study, work measurement, and value engineering. Some of the key questions ask about defining productivity, differentiating production from productivity, techniques for improving productivity, the importance and procedure of work study, steps in method study, techniques of work measurement, the meaning and uses of value engineering, and principles of value analysis. The question bank is intended to assess understanding of fundamental concepts and approaches for analyzing work, improving productivity, and reducing costs.
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Work Study and Productivity MBA IV 879167235
This document contains a question bank with topics related to work study and productivity across 5 units. The units cover concepts of productivity, work study, method study, work measurement, and value engineering. Some of the key questions ask about defining productivity, differentiating production from productivity, techniques for improving productivity, the importance and procedure of work study, steps in method study, techniques of work measurement, the meaning and uses of value engineering, and principles of value analysis. The question bank is intended to assess understanding of fundamental concepts and approaches for analyzing work, improving productivity, and reducing costs.
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QUESTION BANK
FT 405 P: Work Study & Productivity
Unit- 1
1. Give a brief introduction to productivity.
2. Explain the concepts of Productivity. 3. Define the term Productivity according to different authors. 4. What do you mean by production & productivity? 5. Differentiate production v/s productivity. 6. What are the expectations from productivity? 7. What are the benefits from productivity? 8. Explain the dynamics of productivity changes. 9. What are the various measures of productivity? 10. Explain the advantages of productivity measures. 11. Explain the limitations of productivity measures. 12. Discuss the techniques for the improvement of productivity. 13. What are the factors influencing productivity? 14. Describe the measurement models of productivity. 15. What are various levels of productivity measurements?
Unit- 2
1. Give a brief introduction to Work study.
2. Discuss the importance of Work study.. 3. Write down the advantages of Work study. 4. Discuss the limitations of Work study. 5. Explain the procedure of Work study. 6. What do you mean by Work simplification? 7. How work simplification differs from Work study? 8. What are the work considerations in Work study? 9. Explain the term “Work-study and the Management”. 10. Explain the term “Work-study and Super visors”. 11. Explain the term “Work-study and Workers”. 12. What is the influence of method and time study on production activities? 13. Discuss the various concepts of Work content. 14. What are the reasons of excess work content? 15. Discuss the techniques to reduce work content. 16. How work study is used as a tool to improve productivity?
Unit- 3
1. Give a brief introduction to Method study.
2. What are the objectives of Method study? 3. Explain the scope of Method study. 4. What are the steps involved in Method study. 5. How the selection of job is made for Method study. 6. What are the various recording techniques? Discuss in detail 7. What is Micro- motion study? Explain in detail. 8. What is Memo- motion study? Explain in detail. 9. Explain Cycle graph & Chronocycle graph. 10. Differentiate Cycle graph v/s Chronocycle graph. 11. Explain the critical examination of Method study. 12. How the development & selection of new method is possible? 13. Explain the various principles of motion economy. 14. Discuss the installation of proposed methods. 15. Explain the maintenance of proposed method.
Unit- 4
1. Define the term Work measurement.
2. Discuss the objectives of Work measurement. 3. What are the various techniques of work measurement? 4. Explain various kinds of elements of work measurement. 5. What is performance rating of work measurement? 6. Explain the time study equipments of work measurement. 7. What are the allowances of work measurements? 8. Explain the computation of standard time. 9. Discuss the comparison of various techniques of work measurements. 10. Explain the term work sampling. 11. What do you mean by synthetic data? 12. Describe pre-determined motion time system.
Unit – 5
1. What do you mean by value engineering?
2. Explain the origin of value engineering. 3. What is the meaning of value? 4. Define value engineering. 5. Explain Value analysis in detail. 6. Differentiate Value analysis v/s value engineering. 7. Discuss the uses of value engineering. 8. When to apply value analysis? Explain. 9. Explain cost reduction techniques. 10. Differentiate Value engineering and cost reduction techniques. 11. What are the techniques of Function analysis? 12. Write down 10 principles of Value analysis.