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The document outlines an assignment for Work System Design, consisting of various problems related to time study, production cost calculation, work sampling, and confidence intervals. It includes calculations for production costs, standard time per piece, allowances based on production studies, and observations from machine utilization. Additionally, it covers activity sequence modeling and estimation of machine activity in an automatic lathe section.

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Assignment 1

The document outlines an assignment for Work System Design, consisting of various problems related to time study, production cost calculation, work sampling, and confidence intervals. It includes calculations for production costs, standard time per piece, allowances based on production studies, and observations from machine utilization. Additionally, it covers activity sequence modeling and estimation of machine activity in an automatic lathe section.

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Work System Design Assignment - 1 Full Marks: 70

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1. The time for manufacture of 4 pieces of the item was observed during time study. The
manufacture of the item consists of 4 elements A, B, C, D. The data collected during the time study
are as under. Time observed(minutes) during the various cycles are as follows:

Element cycle time(minutes) Element Rating on


B.S. Scale (0-100)
1 2 3 4
A 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.4 85
B 0.7 0.6 0.65 0.75 120
C 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.2 90
D 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.4 70
Calculate the production cost per piece if data reveal a direct material cost of RS. 2 per piece, the
wage rate Rs. 2000 per month consisting of 25 working days and 8 hours per day, overhead
expressed as 200 per cent of direct labour cost. The personal, fatigue and delay allowances may
be taken as 25 per cent of basic time. [5+5 marks]

2. A company ‘ÁBC’ is working 8 hours a day and 6 days a week, a work sampling study was
conducted for two weeks and the following observations are made. Machine controlled elements
480, manual controlled elements 240, personal needs 50, tool grinding and other contingencies
90, unavoidable delays 66. Total observations were made 926. Number of pieces produced 828. If
rating index is 110 per cent, determine the standard time per piece. [5 marks]

3. In an auto parts manufacturing company, a production study was conducted for a period of one
shift (8 hours). It was observed that, production time constitutes of 360 minutes. Time consumed
for personal needs=15 minutes, tool grinding=15 minutes, cleaning of workplace= 5 minutes,
preparation of work ticket=3 minutes, talk with foreman=5 minutes, talk with colleagues (not
connected with production) =20 minutes, the numbers of parts produced=100. Normal time per
piece from stopwatch time study =3.45 minutes. The standard time given by the time study
personnel=4.05 minutes. What would be (a) fatigue allowance (b) personnel allowance (c)
contingency allowance according to the production study? [5+5+5 marks]

4. A work sampling study was performed during a 3-hour final exam to determine the proportion of
time that student spend using a calculator. There were 70 students taking the exam. A total of five
observations were taken of each student at random times during the 3 hours. Of the total
observation taken, 77 of the observations found the students using their calculators. (a) Form a
90% confidence interval on the proportion of time students spend using their calculators during
an exam. (b) How many observations must be taken for the analyst to be 95% confident that the
estimate of proportion of time a student uses a calculator is within ±3% of the true proportion?
[5 + 5 marks]
5. Suppose the supervisor of a machine shop wants to know if one more machine could be assigned
to a machine operator for monitoring the production process from next month. He decides to
observe machine operator current utilization through 185 observations. He found the machine
operator to be busy in 90 cases. Can he decide with 95% confidence that assigning one more
machine would not overburden the operator? [5 marks]

6. Develop the activity sequence model and determine the normal time for the following activity: A
worker takes 2 steps, grasps the waist-level feed lever on the lathe, pulls up the lever
approximately 15 cm to engage the feed. The process time to turn the part is 25 sec. there is no
alignment and no action by the worker at the end of the process time. [10 marks]

7. A total of 500 observations were made at random times during a one-week period (a total of 40
hours) in the automatic lathe section. The subject consisted of 10 identical machines. In each
observation, the activity of the machine was identified and classified into one of three categories:
(1) being set up, (2) running production, or (3) idle. The number of observations in each category
is summarized in the table below.

Category Number of observations


(1) Being set up 75
(2) Running production 300
(3) Machine idle 125
500

(i) Estimate how many hours per week an average machine spent in each of the three categories.
[5 marks]
(ii) Determine the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of time spent setting up the
machine, category (1). [5 marks]
(iii) Determine how many observations will be required to estimate the proportion of time used
to set up 10 machines in the automatic lathe section. The confidence interval must be within
±0.03 of the true proportion, which the foreman initially estimates to be 𝑝̂ = 0.20. A 95%
confidence level will be used. [5 marks]

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