22-Mec-B4 Integrated Manufacturing Systems: December 2016

Paper format. 07-Mec-B4 — Integrated Manufacturing Systems, National Exams December 2016. Three hours, open book, any non-communicating calculator permitted. Six questions are printed; any five constitute a complete paper and all questions are of equal value, so each is worth 20 marks on a five-question basis. Only the first five questions appearing in the answer book are marked. All six are solved here.

Reference texts. The paper draws on the operations and facilities side of manufacturing engineering rather than on process metal cutting, so the useful shelf is:

• E. S. Buffa and R. K. Sarin, Modern Production / Operations Management, 8th ed. — facility layout and operation sequence analysis, materials handling, inventory systems, production planning and control, dispatching.
• M. P. Groover, Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 5th ed. — group technology, cellular manufacturing and rank order clustering (Ch. 15).
• R. B. Chase and F. R. Jacobs, Operations and Supply Chain Management, 16th ed. — forecasting model selection, inventory control, statistical quality control.
• S. Nahmias and T. L. Olsen, Production and Operations Analysis, 7th ed. — economic order quantity, order intervals, safety stock.
• D. C. Montgomery, Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, 8th ed. — inspection strategy, quality information systems, process capability.

Canadian practice is assumed throughout: handling and lifting design is governed by the applicable provincial occupational health and safety regulation and by CSA standards (for example CSA B335 for lift trucks), and quality records are kept to satisfy ISO 9001 as adopted by CSA.