Amity Centre for eLearning
ASSIGNMENT
PROGRAM:
SEMESTER
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Permanent Enrollment Number (PEN)
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Student Name
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INSTRUCTIONS
a) Students are required to submit all three assignment sets.
ASSIGNMENT
Assignment A
Assignment B
Assignment C
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e)
DETAILS
Five Subjective Questions
Three Subjective Questions + Case Study
Objective or one line Questions
MARKS
10
10
10
Total weightage given to these assignments is 30%. OR 30 Marks
All assignments are to be completed as typed in word/pdf.
All questions are required to be attempted.
All the three assignments are to be completed by due dates and need to be submitted for evaluation by Amity University.
( √ ) Tick mark in front of the assignments submitted
Assignment
Assignment ‘B’
Assignment ‘C’
‘A’
Production & Operations Management
Assignment A
1. Discuss the changing philosophy of operations management. What are the new trends in operations management.
2. What is the difference in strategy in developing an initial layout for a new facility as compared to the strategy in improving the layout of an existing facility?
3. Discuss the various factors to be considered to decide the location of a cement plant? How do the factors differ in case of a nuclear plant?
4. Write short notes on: (a) Capacity requirement plans (b) Rough cut capacity plans
(c) Resource requirement plans
5. Actual demand differs from forecasted demand. How to adjust the aggregate plan to meet this situation?
Assignment B
Q1.) Why is materials planning needed? Discuss the various aspects of materials planning.
Which other departments contribute to materials planning and in what way?
Q2) What do you understand by the term corrective maintenance? In what way is corrective maintenance different from preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance? Support your answer with examples.
Q3) What do you understand by ‘Total quality Management’? Discuss the objectives of
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