Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Department of Mechanical Engineering

UME 515 Industrial Engineering

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 Tutorials sheet 1: Productivity Measurement

Q.1. A furniture making company makes kitchen chairs. The weekly rupee value of its output, including
finished goods and work in progress is Rs 142800. The value of inputs (labour, materials, capital) is
approximately 16,5280 Rs.
a) What is the total productivity?
b) Is the productivity good or not?
Q.2. A company makes consumer products. The data of resource inputs and product output in one day
is given in the following table.

Inputs Output
Resource Number Cost (Rs) Number Cost (Rs)
Materials 25000
Man power 30 500/Man 300/product
Energy 400 Units 8/unit 200
Equipment 8 hrs 800/hrs
Overheads - 1000.0
Calculate the following:
a) Partial productivities
b) Total productivity
c) Multifactor productivity including labour, material and overheads.

Q.3. A company produces 160 kg of plastic moulded parts of acceptable quality by consuming 200 kg
of raw materials for a particular period. For the next period, the output is doubled (320 kg) by consuming
420 kg of raw material and for a third period, the output is increased to 400 kg by consuming 400 kg of
raw material. Calculate the productivity for each period.

Q.4. The following information regarding the output produced and inputs consumed for a particular
time period for a particular company is given below:
Output – Rs. 10,000
Human input – Rs. 3,000
Material input – Rs. 2,000
Capital input – Rs. 3,000
Energy input – Rs. 1,000
Other misc. input – Rs. 500
The values are in terms of base year rupee value. Compute various Partial productivity.
Q.5.The following data (Table 1) refers to performance of M/S Sunny Foundries Private Limited for two different periods
(Period 1 and Period 2).
i. Compute the total productivity, and also partial productivity indices of labour productivity and materials
productivity for the company for Period 1 (without considering price variations i.e. without use of
deflators/inflators).
ii. Calculate the total productivity for Period 2 taking consideration of deflators/inflators to reduce the effect of
price variations (take Period 1 as the base period).
Table 1. Performance data (output-input) of M/S Sunny Foundries Private Limited.
S.No Output Period 1 Period 2
.
1. Finished goods produced (units) 2500 2200
2. Price per unit of finished product (₹/unit) 1000 1200
S.No Input Period 1 Period 2
.
1. Skilled labour (h) 1000 1200
Wage rate (₹/h) 400 500
2. Materials (tons) 20 18
Price per ton ((₹/ton) 1200 1600
3. Plant hours worked (h) [Capital Input] 1800 2400
Plant hour rate ((₹/h) 650 650
4. Energy: oil used (L); price/L 5000 L; ₹ 40/L 3000 L; ₹ 60/L
Coal: coal used (ton); price/ton 200 ton; ₹ 5200/ton 150 ton; ₹ 6000/ton
Electricity: KWh used + price/KWh 15000 KWh; ₹ 7.5/KWh 14000 KWh; ₹
8.0/KWh