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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Chapter 1. (c) In ABC analysis, C items will have 70 to
100% items accounts for 10% of invested
Break Even Analysis capital.

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Q.1 Two alternative methods can produce a product. (d) In ABC analysis, C items having highest
Method I has a fixed cost of Rs. 3000 and consumption value.
variable cost of Rs. 25 per piece. Method II has Q.2 Consider the following statements regarding
fixed cost of Rs. 2500 and a variable cost of Harris Wilson Inventory Model.
Rs. 30 per piece. The correct option(s) is(are): GATE 2021 Workbook (a) With increase in number of orders, holding
(a) Break even quantity between two alternative cost decreases.
is 100 units.

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(b) If the product to be produced is 200 units,
then process I should be selected.
(c) If the product to be produced is 50 units,
then process I should be selected.
(d) If the product to be produced is 100 units,
(b) With increase in order quantity, the number
of orders increases.
(c) At break even point of inventory, ordering
cost becomes equal to holding cost.
(d) If annual demand is doubled and holding
rate is halved, EOQ remains unchanged.
then process II should be selected. Which of the above statements is(are) not
Q.2 Which of the following statements is(are) correct correct?
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regarding Break Even Analysis? Q.3 An item is produced at the rate of 30 items per
(a) Advertisement cost increases with increase day and demand occurs at the rate of 20 items
in volume of production. per day. If the set up cost is ` 200 per set up
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(b) With increase in selling price per unit, break

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even volume decreases. day.

(c) If there is option of increasing the sales, Which of the following option(s) is/are correct?
highest (P/V) ratio product should be (a) The economic order quantity is 1096 items.
preferred. (b) The cycle time is approximately 55 days.
(d) At break even point total sales equals to (c) If the production rate is increased to four
fixed cost. times then inventory cost will be halved.
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(d) If the set up cost is increased to four times,

Chapter 2.
then inventory cost will be halved.
Inventory Control
Chapter 3.
Q.1 Which of the following statements is(are) correct
regarding ABC inventory system? Sequencing and PERT/CPM
(a) In ABC analysis, A items require high safety Q.1 Which of the following option(s) is/are correct
control. for the construction of a network diagram?
(b) In ABC analysis A items require rigid and (a) Each activity is represented by one and only
strict control. are arrow in the networks.

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(b) Dummy activities used in the network deviation].

consume resources and time. (c) The forecast for the 5th month according to

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(c) Dangling must be avoided in a network 3 moving average period is 620 units.
diagram. (d) The forecast for the 5th month according to
(d) Same beginning and end can be possible exponential average method if ‘α’ is 0.4, is
for two activities in the network. 668 units.

Q.2 Consider the following statements regarding Q.2 Which of the following are correct regarding
sequencing. range of forecasting method’s?
(a) Average number of jobs in system will be (a) Delphi method is used for short range of

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least for shortest processing time (SPT) rule. forecasting.
(b) Fulkerson’s Rule is used to solve N jobs on (b) In Delphi approach, decision making is
two machine problems. based on expert opinion.
(c) Average Tardiness will be the least for (c) Delphi method is the type of Qualitative
Earliest due date (EDD) rule. technique.
(d) Earliest due date (EDD) rule gives minimum (d) Coefficient of correlation is found in Delphi
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average job flow time. technique for decision making.
Which of the above statements are correct?

Q.3 Consider the network diagram given below:

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Chapter 5.
Line Balancing
Which of the following options is(are) correct for
4 line balancing?
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0 10 (a) In an assembly line, the cycle time is
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determined by fastest work station from all
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7 work stations.
Activity time (in weeks) is given on the arrow. (b) Assembly line balancing increases
Which of the following statement are correct? productivity.
(a) The earliest expected time of the project is (c) Assembly line balancing increases in
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30 weeks. process inventory.

(b) Total float for the activity ‘BE’ is 12 weeks. (d) In an assembly line, balance delay can be
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(c) The earliest expected time of the completion found as: Balance delay = 1 – Line
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of the last event is 26 weeks. effectency

(d) The probability to completed the project in
Q.2 Consider a five station assembly system, the
30 weeks are 60%.
station times are 10, 12, 13, 16, 15 minutes
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Chapter 4. respectively. The cycle time for the assembly

line is given as 18 minutes. The correct option(s)
Forecasting is(are):
Q.1 A dealer for TV forecast found the demand at (a) Line efficiency of the assembly system is
the rate of 500 units per month for the next four 73.3%.
months. The actual demand is found to be 400, (b) The number of units produced in an 6 hour
540, 700, 620 units. Which of the following shift are 20 units.
statement(s) is/are correct? (c) The smoothness index is 9 minutes.
(a) The BIAS is found to be 115. (d) If the cycle time is 16 minutes, then balance
(b) The BIAS is less than MAD [Mean absolute delay is 26.6%.

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Chapter 6.
Queuing Theory
Q.1 Which of the following options is(are) correct for
the queuing theory?
(a) Arrival rate should be greater than the
service rate for stable system.
(b) If the arrivals are completely random, the
probability distribution of number of arrival
in a given time follows Poisson distribution.
(c) In the Kendall’s notation for representing
queuing model, the first position represents
probability law for the service.
(d) If the number of arrival in a queue follows
the Poisson distribution, then the inter arrival
time obeys exponential law.
Q.2 A M/M/1: FCFS/∞/∞ queue model the mean EA
arrival rate is 10 per hour and mean service rate
is 20 per hour. Arrival rate follows Poisson’s law
and service rate follows exponential law. Which
of the following option(s) is/are correct?
(a) System utilisation is 50%.
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(b) Length of the queue is 1.
(c) This system is the single server system.
(d) The expected waiting time per customer in
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the system 6 minutes.
Chapter 7.
LPP, Transportation and Assignment
Q.1 Which of the following options is(are) correct for
linear programming problems?
(a) A linear programming problem with three
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variables and two constraints can be solved
by graphical method.
(b) In simplex table, if two minimum ratios of
the right hand side to the coefficient in the
key column are equal, degeneracy may take
place.
(c) Dual of dual is the primal problem.
(d) In linear programming for optimization
problems, the decisions variables may be
negative and non negative.
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Q.2 A transportation problem is given below:
W1 W2 W3 Supply
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S1 7 6 4 50
S2 8 5 6 60
S3 6 8 9 40
Requirements 60 60 30
The correct option(s) is/are _________.
(a) The minimum initial transportation cost using
Vogel’s approximation method is ` 800.
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(b) The minimum initial transportation cost using
North West corner rule is ` 1000.
(c) The solution from Vogel’s approximation
method is degenerate solution.
(d) This problem is the case of balanced
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Q.3 Which of the following statements is(are) correct
for the assumptions in graphical method solution
in linear programming?
(a) It assumes that the values of the coefficient
of decision variable in the objective function
are known probabilistically.
(b) The solution of the problem will lie in first
and second quadrant of the plane.
(c) It is assumed that the relationship between
variables in the problem and the constraints
of the problem exhibits linearity.
(d) It is assumed that the profit contribution of
a product remains constant, irrespective of
level of production and sales.
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Q.4 A furniture maker has 6 units of wood and 2
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hour of free time in which he will make decorative
tables. Two models have sold well in the past,
so he will restrict himself to those two models.
He estimates that model I requires 2 units of
wood and 6 hour of time, while model II require
1 unit of wood and 8 hour of time. The prices of
models are `120 and `80 respectively for each
table. Which of the following are correct for
maximizing the sales revenue?
(a) The furniture maker is subjected to wood
constraint and it can be given as:
2x1 + x2 ≥ 6, where x1 and x2 are the units of
table from model I and II respectively.
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(b) The optimum value of tables from model I is Chapter 9.

3 and from model II is 0.
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(c) The maximum revenue can be obtained is
`380. Planning and Control
(d) If the price of the model II is changed to
Q.1 Which of the following options is(are) correct in
`60 without any change in model I price,
production planning and control?
the problem will have multiple solution.
(a) Motor cycle assembly is the example of
Chapter 8. process layout.
(b) Dispatching initiates the execution of

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Material Requirement Planning production plans whereas expediting
Q.1 Which of the following is/are correct for the maintains then and sees them through to
Material Requirement Planning (MRP)? their successful completion.
(a) Bills of material schedule is one of the input (c) Routing in production planning and control
of the MRP. refers to the progress of work performed.
(b) Product structure is the input of Bills of (d) Huge Aircraft manufacturing is an example
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of fixed position layout.
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(c) MRP is done before master production
scheduling.
(d) MRP inventory status file contains material
on hand, planned order and planned order
release.
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Q.2 Which of the following options is(are) correct for

production planning and control?
(a) Cellular layout is used in the group
technology concept.
(b) Sequencing of jobs is a decision taken during
aggregate production planning stage.
(c) In value engineering, value is defined as the
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product of function and cost.
(d) Job shop production is used to manufacture
medium demand variety production.
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