Production and Industrial Engineering
GATE PI year:2022 PYQs
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Questions 61–65 of 65. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 61
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A machine component is to be processed at 5 workstations sequentially. The table provides the cycle time (in second) of each workstation. In mass production, the number of components produced per hour (in steady state) is____________. [in integer]
Workstation | Cycle time of each workstation (second)
WS-1 | 85
WS-2 | 55
WS-3 | 90
WS-4 | 65
WS-5 | 70
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A vaccine has to be distributed from two warehouses to three hospitals. The supplies at warehouses W₁ and W₂ are 200 and 150, respectively. The demands at hospitals H₁, H₂, and H₃ are 100, 150 and 125, respectively. The transportation cost (in ₹) per vaccine is as follows:
| | H₁ | H₂ | H₃ |
| W₁ | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| W₂ | 4 | 6 | 7 |
The initial basic feasible solution using the Northwest-corner method provides the total transportation cost (in ₹) as____________. [round off to nearest integer]
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Consider the linear programming problem:
Maximize
,subject to
(C₁)
(C₂)
(C₃)
The optimal solution is given as
,
and
. The dual variables of constraints C₁, C₂ and C₃ are
,
and
, respectively. The optimal values of dual variables are
,
and
. The value of parameter P in the objective function is____________. [round off to one decimal place]Log in to check the answer
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A company is planning to produce 24 electric cars per day. The setup cost of the plant is estimated as ₹ 1476 million and the variable cost is ₹ 0.6 million per car. The car will be sold at a price of ₹ 1.5 million. The number of days required for achieving the breakeven is____________. [round off to nearest integer]
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A company forecasts the weekly demand of oxygen cylinders using exponential smoothing method with smoothing constant
. The actual demands in Week 1, Week 2, Week 3 and Week 4 were 375, 412, 592 and 439 units, respectively. The forecasted demand for Week 3 was 500 units. The forecast (in unit) for the Week 5 is____________. [in integer]Log in to check the answer
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