Ms-58 December, 2012 Management Of R&D And Innovation
December, 2012
Ms-58 : Management Of R&D And Innovation
1. (a) How does one identify a business strategy that is appropriate to your competancies ? How do you ensure that competitive advantage can be assured through technological innovation ?
(b) Elaborate your understanding about Dual Role of R&D with the help of an example.
2. (a) What are the essential requirement of design ? Examine the relationship between design, innovation and market.
(b) Identify and explain the main characteristics of creative individuals.
3. (a) Elaborate your understanding about Technology Portfolio.
(b) What are the different types of R&D organisations ? What kind of R&D organisations are found in
4. (a) Discuss the various types of partnerships for innovation and R&D.
(b) Explain the role of teamwork in corporate research and development.
5. (a) Discuss the various causes of failure of R&D projects. What can the management do to prevent such failures ?
(b) Compare the main features of the technology policy of
6. (a) Discuss the differences in commercialisation approach between developed and developing nations.
(b) Explain the various issues related to management of Intellectual Property Rights.
Ms-58 June, 2013 Management Of R&D and Innovation
June, 2013
Ms-58 : Management Of R&D and Innovation
1. (a) "Business is a fluid, dynamic living thing, sometimes building to great things, sometimes failing to crumpled lumps". Discuss the above fact keeping in mind technology and corporate growth.
(b) Distinguish between Basic and Applied Research with at least one practical example.
OR
Distinguish between Basic and Experimental Research with at least one practical example.
2. (a) With the help of schematic line diagram, describe the objectives and purpose of Corporate Function of R & D so as to impart to the organization of a competitive advantage.
(b) With the help of a graph, describe the six stages of development i.e. Technology development, Technology application, Technology launch, Technology growth, Technology maturity and Technology decline.
3. (a) Give a brief introduction of Technological Innovation. List some of the distinctive
characteristics of Innovators.
(b) Prepare an illustrative checklist for Project Evaluation in respect of corporate objectives, marketing and financial criteria.
4. (a) Classify
(b) What are the resources for Research and Development (R & D) ? Illustrate the interrelationship of natural, human and institutional resources.
5. (a) Whenever the technology flows from one country to another country subjected to some terms and conditions, the process is termed as Technology Transfer. From your understanding of the technology transfer process, briefly describe some challenges or barriers to the flow of technology. (Hint : One such challenge is lack of top management commitment).
(b) Describe the procedure followed by the Patent's Office for the award of Patent to
any organization/institution.
6. Write short notes on any four of the following :
(a) Creative Destruction
(b) Zero-based budgeting
(c) Partnership
(d) Team Leader
(e) Sponsored Research
(f) Technology Transfer
(g) IPRs
Ms-57 June, 2010 Maintenance Management
June, 2010
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. What are the life cycle cost components for any plant ? How can maintenance affect the life cycle profits of any equipment and plant ?
2. What are the important components of a maintenance organization ? Name the key issues affecting the maintenance organization structure.
3. Briefly describe the concept of reliability, maintainability and availability. Why it is said that 100% reliability of all components of a machine or equipment is not always aimed to achieve ?
4. Discuss the internal customer concept with reference to maintenance activities in a typical Indian Organization. Should maintenance activities be integrated into the operator's daily workload ?
5. "Overhauling of plant and equipment constitutes an important part of the preventive maintenance effort of a manufacturing organization". Discuss.
6. What is condition-based maintenance ? What are the key steps involved in implementing condition based maintenance in any plant ?
7. Write short notes on any two of the following :
(a) Reliability Centred Maintenance.
(b) CMMS Modules.
(c) Constant Hazard Model.
(d) Importance of Maintenance Audit.
Ms-57 December, 2011 Maintenance Management
December, 2011
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. (a) Discuss briefly the various techniques for condition based maintenance.
(b) What are the objectives of Total Productive Maintenance ? Discuss the significance of Age-specific failure rate.
2. (a) Explain the importance of maintenance audit. Describe the salient features to be covered in a maintenance audit report.
(b) Describe the process through which a shutdown programme has to be established. Give an example from thermal power plant.
3. (a) What is Reliability ? How Redundancy is related to reliability ? Explain how component redundancy yields higher reliability than unit redundancy. For a general case of n-component series system, prove that is true.
(b) Discuss the relationship between emerging technology, maintenance management and TQM.
4. (a) What are the aims and activities of maintenance ?
(b) What are major components of safety and environmental issues of an enterprise ? Differentiate between investigation of incidents and audits.
5. (a) Discuss the processes in details for maintenance planning and scheduling.
(b) Elaborate your understanding regarding the importance and processes for maintenance costing and budgeting.
6. Write short notes on any Three of the following.
(a) Terotechnology
(b) Reliability Centered Maintenance.
(c) Maintenance Organisation
(d) Process Capability
(e) Spare Parts Inventory.
Ms-57 December, 2012 Maintenance Management
December, 2012
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. (a) What are the Life cycle cost components for any plant? How maintenance can affect the life cycle profits of any equipment and plant?
(b) Discuss the various functions and objectives of maintenance.
2. (a) Discuss the basic principles of maintenance planning and scheduling.
(b) Explain the characteristics and benefits of planned maintenance.
3. (a) Discuss the key issues affecting maintenance organisation structure.
(b) Explain the unique problems of spare parts management. Suggest the methods for controlling the spare parts.
4. (a) Discuss the important issues related to Training and Development in maintenance management.
(b) What do you mean by continuous improvement? Explain the autonomous CAPD cycle for maintenance function.
5. (a) Explain Reliability, Failure Rate, Hazard Rate. Establish the relationship among these three with the help of equations. Also explain BATH-TUB curve and its importance in maintenance management.
(b) What are the objectives of TPM? What are the big six losses? How these can be eliminated or reduced?
6. Write short note on any three of the following.
(a) Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM).
(b) Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
(c) Safety and Environmental issues in maintenance.
(d) Maintenance Costing and Budgeting.
(e) Terotechnology.
Ms-57 June, 2013 Maintenance Management
June, 2013
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. (a) Explain the Life Cycle Cost and its components for any plant. Identify the factors affecting Life Cycle Profits of any industrial plant.
(b) What is preventive maintenance ? Explain different preventive maintenance tasks. How is total maintenance cost affected by the level of preventive maintenance.
2. (a) What do you understand by maintenance planning and scheduling ? Explain basic
principles for maintenance planning.
(b) Elaborate your understanding about maintenance control.
3. (a) Explain the key issues affecting maintenance organisation structure.
(b) Discuss the role of Information and Communication Technology for influencing
maintenance function.
4. (a) What do you understand by maintenance budgeting ? Explain Zero Based Budgeting.
(b) Elaborate your understanding about "Training in Maintenance Technology".
5. (a) What do you understand by the terms :
(i) design for manufacturability
(ii) design for serviceability
(iii) design for maintainability. Also discuss the relationship amongst them.
(b) Define Reliability, Maintainability and Availability. Establish relationship amongst them.
6. Write short notes on any four of the following :
(a) Condition Based Maintenance
(b) Maintenance Strategy
(c) Spare Parts Inventory Management
(d) Process Capability
(e) Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
(f) Maintenance Audit
Ms-56 December, 2009 Materials Management
December, 2009
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1(a) Briefly discuss the functions of materials management.
(b) Discuss the business implications of the environmental issues in materials management.
2(a) Improper supplier selection leads to receipt of inferior goods and services. Explain what stages would you follow to make a proper selection.
(b) Discuss any two documents used in international purchase.
3. (a) Explain the Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) algorithm with the help of a flow chart.
(b) Define "Kanban System" and discuss its benefits in managing materials.
4(a) Describe an Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model with shortages.
(b) Discuss uses of operations research techniques in materials management.
5(a) Describe the Mnemonic and Decimal System of codification.
(b) What are the various considerations to be made for controlling losses due to shrinkages/pilferages ?
6. (a) What is third-party logistics (3PL) ? Explain its benefits in context of materials management.
(b) Explain the SCOR framework for performance appraisal.
7. Write short notes on any four of the following :
(a) TQM in materials management
(b) Make or Buy decisions
(c) Process inventory
(d) Life cycle of spare parts
(e) Super organization
(f) ABC Analysis.
Ms-56 June, 2010 Materials Management
June, 2010
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1 (a) Discuss the value added activities included in Materials Logistics Management (MLM) program. Also discuss briefly the various interfaces that MLM covers.
(b) What are the objectives of Materials Management ? Discuss its advantages.
2. (a) Discuss the role of information in materials management.
(b) Elaborate your understanding regarding analysis of sources of supply and its evaluation.
3. (a) How are foreign suppliers selected ? Briefly discuss about the various documents for international purchasing.
(b) Why has management of supplier network become a contemporary and critical issue ?
What are the basic objectives of such a network ?
4.(a) Discuss the important policies that a company is required to use to foster good buyer - seller relationships.
(b) Explain with the help of schematic flow diagram the required activities of manufacturing planning and control system.
5.(a) Elaborate your understanding about Materials Requirement Planning (MRP).
(b) Define Work-in-process (WIP) inventory. Discuss various methods for controlling WIP inventory.
6. Answer any two from the following :
(a) Discuss the various losses in warehouses. Suggest the methods for its prevention.
(b) Explain briefly various approaches for performance appraisal in Materials management.
(c) Discuss various techniques of vendor rating.
Ms-56 June, 2011 Materials Management
June, 2011
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1. (a) Material Flow and Information Flows are equally important in the materials flow process. Why ?
(b) How can an organization achieve competitive advantage using information as a key driver in the organization ?
2. (a) Why is "approved list of vendors" approach is not a suitable purchase policy in certain cases ? Explain.
(b) How is the performance of purchasing function dependent on supplier development ? Illustrate.
3. (a) Dependent demand inventory items do not need to be forecast. Why ? Explain.
(b) How does Just-In Time (JIT) approach differ from Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP II) ?
4. (a) What are the cost elements in ordering costs, carrying costs and shortage costs ?
(b) CONWIP is considered applicable to production environment characterized by longer set - ups and fluctuating demand. Why ?
5. (a) What do you understand by the term codification ? What type of information should be built into a code ?
(b) Discuss the incoming material receiving procedures and systems.
6. (a) What does it mean when we say a firm has organized according to the materials management concept ?
(b) Explain the SCOR framework for performance appraisal and discuss how is it useful in material management ?
Ms-56 December, 2011 Materials Management
December, 2011
Ms-56 : Materials Management
1. (a) What are the objectives of materials management ? Discuss its importance and strategic role in any manufacturing organisation.
(b) How does TQM support in creating customer value in materials management ?
2(a) Briefly discuss the problems that a buyer may encounter while entering the international market for the first time.
(b)Mention the basic principles and techniques to be followed in purchase by negotiation.
3. (a) Explain the material requirement planning (MRP) algorithm with the help of a flow chart.
(b) Some people say just - in - ti me (JIT) is simply one more inventory control system. Do you agree with them? Why and why not ?
4. (a) Discuss the role of PERT/CPM in controlling the WIP inventories.
(b) Explain the LIFO method of inventory flow. When this method is used ?
5. (a) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of centralized warehouse and decentralized warehouse.
(b) Describe various measures that can be adopted to prevent shrinkage in warehouse.
6. (a) What is a Manufacturing Execution System ( MES) ? What benefits can be achieved by implementation of MES ?
(b) Explain the Balanced Scorecard approach for performance appraisal and discuss how is it useful in materials management.
