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Industry 4.0 · Quiz 1 · Jan 2023
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Question 4 MCQ · 1.0 marks
Identify the Industry 4.0 version of transportation.
IC engine
Electric car
Hyperloop
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Question 5 MCQ · 1.0 marks
What brought the second industrial revolution?
Electric Power
Mechanization
Computer
Robotics
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Question 6 MCQ · 1.0 marks
The Production rate of an assembly line is determined by its
Slowest station
Fastest station
Idle station
None of these
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Question 7 MSQ · 1.0 marks
Which of the following is an advantage of Product Layout?
Small in-process inventory
It can accommodate high variety of products
High utilization of machines
Low investment
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Question 8 NAT · 2.0 marks
A factory works for two 8-hour shifts each day and produces a total of 30,000 electric bulbs using a
set of workstations. There are 8 activities required to manufacture the bulb, such that the sum of
all activity times is equal to 12 seconds. What is the cycle time (in seconds) at any workstations
(round your answer to one decimal).
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Question 9 MSQ · 3.0 marks
Select the correct example for fixed position layout from the following list:
A Fine-Dine restaurant
Buffet dinner in a wedding function
A Google doc shared among the team members of a project
Assembly line in an automobile company
Your local branch of State Bank of India
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Question 10 MSQ · 2.0 marks
Select the correct statements from below:
Optimal solution in a facility location problem using Euclidean method will
result in a region
Optimal solution in a facility location problem using Euclidean method rarely
matches the center of gravity
Optimal solution in a facility location problem using Euclidean method will
result in a point
Optimal solution in a facility location problem using Euclidean method
matches the center of gravity in not of the cases
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Question 11 MSQ · 2.0 marks
Identify the examples for Offshoring from the list below:
Shell, an oil company based in Netherlands, setting up a data science team in
India.
Western Australia’s electricity network agency assigns Tata Consultancy
Services at Pune, to support it with an overhaul of its legacy IT systems, aimed at delivering
cheaper and more reliable power.
Target Corporation, a retail giant based in US, setting up Supply Chain
Optimization team at Bengaluru.
Tata Motors assigns the manufacturing of its braking system to TACO group.
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Question 12 MSQ · 2.0 marks
The ten activities specified below are to be performed to make a product. Then answer the given
subquestions
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Which of the following is/are an allowable grouping of activities to produce the product if the
target is to produce a product every 20 minutes?

(A3)-(A1,A4)-(A2,A5,A6)-(A8)-(A10,A9)-(A7)-Output
(A3,A2)-(A1,A4)-(A5,A6)-(A8)-(A10,A9)-(A7)-Output
(A2,A5,A6)-(A1,A4)-(A3)-(A8)-(A10,A9)-(A7)-Output
(A3)-(A1,A4,A2)-(A8)-(A10,A9)-(A7)-Output
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Question 13 NAT · 2.0 marks
The ten activities specified below are to be performed to make a product. Then answer the given
subquestions
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What is the balance delay for the line (or lines) identified in the main question? (Enter your answer
in % rounded to two decimal places, without the percentage symbol. Eg. If you compute the answer as
0.10005, then enter 10.01 as your answer)

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Question 14 NAT · 3.0 marks
A factory has three work centers as shown in the picture below. The time required at each centers
are shown in the bracket. Calculate the efficiency of the system. (Enter your answer in % rounded to
two decimal places, without the percentage symbol. Eg. If you compute the answer as 0.10005, then
enter 10.01 as your answer)
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