CWA ICWA Final Stage III : Operations and Project Management and Control - December 2005

CWA ICWA - Final Stage III • Operations and Project Management and Control • December 2005

This Paper has 54 answerable questions with 0 answered.

F—13(OPM) Revised Syllabus
Time Allowed : 3 Hours	Full Marks : 100

The figures in the margin on the right side indicate full marks.
Answer Question No. 1 & Question No. 7 which are compulsory and any two other questions from Section—1 & any two other questions from Section—II
Please answer all bits of a question at one place only.
SECTION I
Marks

The figures in the margin on the right side indicate full marks.

Answer Question No. 1 & Question No. 7 which are compulsory and any two other questions
from Section—1 & any two other questions from Section—II

Please answer all bits of a question at one place only.

SECTION I

Marks

(a)

Expand the following acronyms:

1x5

(i)

SCM

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(ii)

ERP

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(iii)

TOT

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(iv)

CRM

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(v)

COPQ

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(b)

Match each item in the Left Hand Column with an appropriate item in the Right Hand Column.

(A)	Cold Rolling	(1)	Surface Treatment
(B)	Tempering	(2)	Machining
(C)	Soldering	(3)	Joining
(D)	Broaching	(4)	Forming
(D)	Pickling	(5)	Heat Treatment

1x5

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(c)

Fill in the blank with appropriate works:

1x5

(i)

EOQ model/method of ordering quantity reduces ________ ________

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(ii)

Manpower efficiency of an unit is measured by ________ index.

(0)

(iii)

Shot–blasing is a ________ ________ technique.

(0)

(iv)

Average time per cycle declines ________ with number of cycles.

(0)

(v)

The Residual Value of Plant & Machinery is known as the ________ value.

(0)

(d)

Distinguish between (very short answers please):

2+2+1

(0)

(i)

BPO & BPR

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(ii)

Accountability & Responsibility

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(iii)

Production & Productivity.

(0)

Vision Graphics provides copy services for law firms in Mumbai suburbs. Five customers Submitted their orders at the beginning of the week. Specific scheduling data are as follows:

Job (In order of arrival)	Processing Time (Days)	Due Date (Days hence)
A B C D E	3 4 2 6 1	5 6 7 9 2

All orders require the use of the only colour copy machine available.
Vision Graphics would like to use the following Priority Rules and decide the best rule for the Job Sequencing, using the evaluation criterion of minimum flow time:

(i)	FCFS (First Come First Served)
(ii)	SOT (Shortest Operation Time)
(iii)	D Date (Due Date)
(iv)	STR (Slack Time Remaining)
(v)	LCFS (Last Come First Served)

Compute the Mean Flow Time and the Average Lateness using the five Priority Rules and determine the best Priority Rule to sequence the jobs.

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(a)

What material handling equipments you would choose for handling:

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(i)

Iron scrap in a scrap yard.

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(ii)

Red hot steel billets in a rolling mill.

(0)

(iii)

Charging iron ore in blast furnace.

(0)

(iv)

Handling heavy machine parts within small radial distance.

(0)

(v)

For movement of small components in a shop.

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(b)

An automobile ancillary unit manufactures and supplies three types of radiator brass caps A, B and C to an automobile manufacturer. During the year 2004–05 the unit produced 30,000; 45,000 and 30,000 of A, B and C respectively. Unit SMH of A, B and C are 3, 4 and 4.5 respectively. The unit engaged 300 Industrial employees during the year and the ratio of Direct Labour to Indirect Labour to was 1:0.5. The unit worked 8 hrs shift per day for 6 working days in a week and there were 50 weeks working during the year. Assuming on an average 10% absenteeism among employees. What was the productivity of direct labour during the year?

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(a)

What are the measures commonly adopted to assess the effectivity of maintenance department?
Which measures would you like to adopt in case of maintenance of CNC m/cs when there is a surplus capacity but the parts/components are very costly in nature?

2+3=5

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(b)

A company orders its stock twice in a year, the order quantity each time being one half of the year's forecast of demand. The new Materials Manager, however, wants to change this practice and wishes to introduce professional materials management practices like EOQ and orders to be released based on Reorder Levels.
For an inventory item, "X", the following data is available:

Forecast of Annual Demand
Porcurement Cost/Unit
Cost of Placing an Order
Lead Time for Procurement
Stockholding Cost

:
:
:
:
:

500 Units
Rs. 12/–
Rs. 5/–
4 weeks
20% of average stock value

The Materials Manager wants to maintain a safety stock of 15 units to cater to demand fluctuations and to ward off stock–outs. If the new Materials Manager has his way.

Calculate for item "X":

(i)	Recorder Level;

(ii)	Expected reduction in average stock value; and

(iii)

Anticipated reduction in inventory costs in the first year and in subsequence years

2+4+4

(0)

(a)

The Production Manager of a company is very much reluctant to initiate any action to improve Productivity during the recession in this industry.
Enumerate your views in the above context.

(0)

(b)

Under what circumstances an industry can show financial loss despite high productivity:

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(c)

"Any increase in Productivity has to come through concerted efforts of all parties". Explain in this respect, the role of:-

(i)	Workers
(ii)	Trade unions
(iii)	Management and
(iv)	Government.

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(a)

Manufacture of a component requires operations to be performed on three machines A, B and C respectively. The standard times, operator efficiencies and machine availabilities of each of the machines are as follows:

Machine	Operator Efficiency	Std. Man–Hrs Per component	Machine availability
A	80%	0.20	100%
B	100%	0.25	80%
C	90%	0.15	75%

(i)	If the factory operates in 2 shifts of 8 hours each for 6 days in a week, how many each of machines A, B and C will be required a produce 4800 components per week?

(ii)	What is the spare capacity available on each of the machine?

4+4=8

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(b)

Excellent Products Co. Ltd., has a manufacturing capacity of 1,00,000 units of Product A per month. The selling price varies with volume as follows:

Volume in Unit per month		Selling price per unit (Rs.)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)	Up to 50,000 50,000 to 80,000 80,000 to 90,000 Above 90,000	1.80 1.70 1.60 1.50

Fixed costs work out to Rs. 80,000/– p.m. But, for achieving a production beyond 60,000 units p.a., three additional workers and beyond 80,000 units p.m., five additional workers would be required.

Variable cost is Re. 0.30/– per unit.
Average salary of a worker is Rs. 2000/– p.m.

Find out the production volume at which profit is the highest and calculate the maximum profit.

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SECTION II

SECTION II

(a)

Expand the following acronyms:

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(i)

EPC

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(ii)

BOT

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(iii)

EIA

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(iv)

CBR

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(v)

DSCR.

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(b)

Match each item in the left hand column with an appropriate item in the right hand column:

(A)	Utility	(1)	Vertical Bar Chart
(B)	Feasibility Report	(2)	consumer Industry
(C)	Grantt Chart	(3)	Cost Benefit Analysis
(D)	Soaps & Detergents	(4)	Power
(E)	Histogram	(5)	Project Scheduling Tool.

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(c)

Mention whether the following statements are "True" or "False".

1x5

(i)

The Earliest Occurrence Time and the Latest Occurrence Time of an Event on the Critical Path of a PERT Network are the same.

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(ii)

Pre–qualification Criterial help in the selection of a competent Contractor for bidding for a project.

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(iii)

Pre–operative Expenses do not fall under Capital Expenditure.

(0)

(iv)

Dummy activities in a PERT Network do not require time or other resources.

(0)

(v)

Detailed Project Report (DPR) is prepared before the Feasibility Report.

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(d)

Distinguish between:

1+2+2

(i)

Efficiency and Productivity

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(ii)

Accounting Rate of Return & Internal Rate of Return.

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(iii)

Item Rate Contract & Lump sum Contract.

(0)

(a)

What are the skills & attributes required of a successful Project Manager?

4+4

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(b)

The projected cash flows and the expected net abandonment values for a project are given below:

Year	Cash inflows Rs.	Abandonment Value(Rs).
0 1 2 3 4	(-) 100,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000	Nil 65,000 45,000 20,000 Nil

Should the project be abandoned and if so, when?
Cost of Capital may be taken as 10%.

Given:	Year		PV Factor @ 10%
	0 1 2 3 4		1,000 0.909 0.826 0.751 0.683

3+4

(0)

(a)

What is two–bid system of tender? Why it is suitable for certain circumstances?

3+2

(0)

(b)

The top management of a company is considering the problem of marketing a new product. The investment or the fixed cost, required in the project is Rs. 15,000. The three factors that are uncertain are the selling price, variable cost and the annual sales volume. The product has a life of only one year. The management has collected the following data regarding the possible levels of these three factors. The factors are independent of each other.

Series 1		Series 2		Series 3
Selling Price/unit (Rs.)	Probability	Variable Cost/unit (Rs.)	Probability	Sales volume units	Probability
14 15 16	0.35 0.50 0.15	2 3 4	0.30 0.50 0.20	3000 4000 5000	0.25 0.40 0.35

Using the Monte Carlo Simulation, determine the expected profit from the above investment on the basis of 10 trials and using the following 3 series of ten Random numbers each.
Series 1: 18, 71, 32, 55, 31, 20, 48, 73, 75, 03.
Series 2: 81, 93, 18, 97, 21, 83, 94, 19, 90, 02.
Series 3: 67, 63, 39, 55, 29, 78, 70, 06, 78, 76.

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10.

(a)

What is the significance of option clause in supply order?
What is Risk Purchase?

2+3

(0)

(b)

This following data pertains to a project.

Activity	Normal Time	Crash Time	Crash Cost	Normal Cost
	(days)	(days)	(Rs.)	(Rs.)
1–2 2–3 2–4 2–5 3–6 4–6 5–7 6–7	3 4 3 8 4 6 5 3	1 3 2 7 2 4 4 1	19,000 24,000 16,000 16,000 15,000 13,000 24,000 20,600	15,000 18,000 14,000 15,000 13,000 12,000 20,000 17,000

(i)	What is the normal cost and the duration of the projects?

(ii)	Crash the project till it cannot be crashed further and compute the extra cost involved with each crashing.

2+8

(0)

11.

An entrepreneur wishes to set up an engineering consultancy and training services company in India with a capital of Rs. 10 lakhs. He enters into a joint venture with an overseas company with the terms & conditions that

(i)	His firm can provide consultancy and training services in India for which the over seas firm would provide technical help; and
(ii)	That 40% of the consultancy fee earned in India each month will be paid to the overseas collaborator, in the subsequent month.

The entrepreneur secured a bank loan of Rs. 50 lakhs in January 2003 and agrees to rapay Rs. 10 lakhs every quarter to the bank. The bank assured the firm to provide additional funds in case of a shortfall, if the loan repayment is made regularly.
The expenditure of the entrepreneur against fixed assets is as follows for the year 2003.

•	Buildings	:	Rs. 8 lakhs in January & Rs. 12 lakhs in February
•	Interiors	:	Rs. 4 lakhs in January
•	Office Equipment	:	Rs. 4 lakhs in January
•	Computer Systems	:	Rs. 10 lakhs in February
•	Furniture & Fixtures	:	Rs. 2 lakhs each in January & February and Rs. 4 lakhs in March
•	Motor vehicles	:	Rs. 2 lakhs in January and February & Rs. 8 lakhs in May
The monthly running expenditure is as follows:
•	Salaries & wages	:	Rs. 10 lakhs in January, 6 lakhs in February, Rs. 8 lakhs each in March & May. Rs. 2 lakhs in April and Rs. 4 lakhs in June.
•	Advertisement	:	Rs. 12 lakhs in two equal instalments in January and April.
•	Provision for Taxation	:	Rs. 12 lakhs payable in equal instalments in March and June
•	Depreciation	:	Rs. 2 lakhs per month

The entrepreneur has an opening cash balance of Rs. 10 lakhs and would like to maintain a minimum cash balance of Rs. 10 lakhs.

Draw the Capital Budget, Trading (profit) forecast and projected cash flows for a period of six months from January, 2003 if the firm estimates the earnings (in Rs. lakhs) as follows:

i)
ii)

Consultancy
Training

Jan
10
10

Feb
20
10

Mar
20
20

Apr
10
16

May
40
16

June
20
20

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12.

Write short notes on the following:

4+4+4+3

(i)

Ecological Analysis of projects

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(ii)

Milestone Payment Plan

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(iii)

Benchmarking of projects

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(iv)

Promoter's Contribution

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