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Work Analysis and Design- Assignment 1

The document outlines an assignment for MENG 4444: Work Analysis and Design, focusing on various questions related to factory operations, productivity, and work group performance. It includes questions on basic factory activities, work structure, non-productive activities, and labor productivity ratios for different months. Additionally, it presents a scenario involving a machine shop to analyze production capacity and recommend solutions.

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Work Analysis and Design- Assignment 1

The document outlines an assignment for MENG 4444: Work Analysis and Design, focusing on various questions related to factory operations, productivity, and work group performance. It includes questions on basic factory activities, work structure, non-productive activities, and labor productivity ratios for different months. Additionally, it presents a scenario involving a machine shop to analyze production capacity and recommend solutions.

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MENG 4444: Work Analysis and Design

ASSIGNMENT # 1

Submitted by:

Name: ID:

Submitted to:

Dr. Ahmed Mohib

Submitted on:

Date:

Fall 2024
Question 1

1- What are the basic activities carried out in a factory to convert raw materials into finished
products?

2- Draw the pyramidal structure of work with definition.

3- What is meant by Excess Non-productive activities and what are their different types?

4- What is the advantage of reducing the time of repetitive tasks over non-repetitive tasks?

5- Define the following terms with giving examples:


a. Bottleneck
b. Productivity

Question 2
A work group of 20 workers in a certain month produced 8600 units of output working 8 hr/day
for 21 days.
(a) What is the labor productivity ratio for this month?
(b) In the next month, the same worker group produced 8000 units but there were 22 workdays
in the month and the size of the work group was reduced to 14 workers.
What is the labor productivity ratio for this second month?
(c) What is the productivity index using the first month as a base?

Question 3

A machine shop has ten machines in its automatic lathe section. Setup time on an automatic lathe is 5
hours. Batch size is 100 for parts processed through the section. Cycle time per part is 9.0 minutes.
Under shop rules, an operator can be assigned to run one or two machines. Accordingly, there are
five operators in the section for the ten lathes. In addition to the lathe operators, two setup workers
only perform machine setups. These setup workers are busy the full shift. The section runs one 8-
hour shift per day, 5 days per week. Scrap losses are negligible and availability = 100%. The
production control manager claims that the capacity of the section should be 2000 parts per week.
However, the actual output is only 1600 units per week.

(a) What is the problem?

(b) Recommend a solution.

(c) Average production rate.

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