Paper format. National Examination
16-Mec-B4, Integrated Manufacturing Systems (the archive copy is filed
undated; the printed page header reads May 2019). Three hours, OPEN BOOK,
any non-communicating calculator permitted. Seven questions are
printed; any five constitute a complete paper and only the first five
appearing in the answer book are marked, so each question is worth 20 of the
100 marks and carries about 36 minutes. Some questions require an essay answer,
where clarity and organisation are themselves marked. All seven are worked
below, because the set as a whole is the study resource.
Reference texts for this subject.
- Chase & Jacobs, Operations and Supply Chain Management, 16th ed.
— inventory models, break-even and capacity analysis.
- Nahmias & Olsen, Production and Operations Analysis, 7th ed.
— the EOQ family and its variants.
- Montgomery, Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, 8th ed.
— Shewhart charts, operating-characteristic curves and average run length.
- Duncan, Quality Control and Industrial Statistics, 5th ed.
— the classical control-chart and inspection material these questions come from.
- Groover, Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated
Manufacturing, 5th ed. — materials handling, and the data-acquisition
and conversion chapter behind Question 6.
- Ebeling, An Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability
Engineering, 3rd ed. — series and active-redundant configurations.
- Buffa & Sarin, Modern Production / Operations Management, 8th ed.
— plant layout and materials-handling systems.
