Page 299 - DMGT206_PRODUCTION_AND_OPERATIONS_MANAGEMENT

Production and Operations Management

Notes 2. The Gantt chart takes two basic forms. What are those forms?
3. Both MRP and MPS assume certain ideal characteristics about the imperfect world of
production and the plant floor. What are they?
4. Capacity has two basic types of constraints. Explain those constraints.
5. What is the procedure for making a Gantt chart using MS Excel?
6. Explain a heuristic technique of loading, which would yield better results than the simple
and intuitive method.
7. Describe the conception of job shop scheduling.
8. To identify the performance some new measures are being introduced. What are those
measures?
9. Scheduling for manufacturing industries and service industries are same. Do you agree?
Justify your answer with examples.
10. What are the three methods that are commonly used for scheduling customer demand?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Sequencing 2. Master Production Schedule
3. Soft ceilings 4. continuous
5. intermittent 6. real-time
7. Henry Gantt 8. machine
9. planned 10. Temporal
11. Resource 12. shortest processing time
13. lead time 14. Yield management
15. Soft ceilings

14.9 Further Readings

Books Upendra Kachru, Production and Operations Management, Excel Books, New Delhi.
Canary, Patrick H., International Transportation Factors in Site Selection, (October
1988): 1217-1219.

Chan, Yupo, Location theory and Decision Analysis with Facility – Location and Land-
use Models, Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing, 2001.
Hurter, Arthur, P., Jr., and Joseph S. Martinich, Facility Location and the Theory of
Production, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.
Schniederjans, Marc J., International Facility Acquisition and Location Analysis,
Westport, CT: Quorum, 1999.

Online links wps.pearsoned.co.uk/ema_uk_he_slack.../index.html
portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1141095

294 LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY