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Work Study Question Paper

Work Study

Course:Bachelor Of Science In Renewable Energy Technology And Management

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2009

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
SCIENCE (ENERGY ENGINEERING)

SET 314: WORK STUDY

DATE: Monday
21st December 2009

TIME: 8.00am – 10.00am

INSTRUCTIONS

This examination consists (FIVE (5) questions
Attempt ANY THREE (3) Questions
All questions carry equal marks
1.
a)
Define the following
i)
Method
study
ii)
work
measurement
[2marks]

b)
Outline the factors that affect
productivity.
[12marks]

c)
State Advantages of work study.

[6marks]

2.
a)
Briefly outline the basic procedure of method of study.
[6marks]

b)
You have assigned the task of carrying out method study of robot

construction in your college in preparation for robot competition among

college. During examination of the facts recorded in the preliminary

stages what should you bear in mind?

[14marks]

3.
A gear production company produces gears either through hobbing, milling or

shaping. Customers place their orders with the sales department where they pitch

their products once completed. Most of the jobs have to go through design and

drawing using Auto CAD before being machined.

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a)
From the above information list the main activities carried out on

customers gear order from the sales until the finished product is delivered
to
the
sales
after
production.
[10marks]

b)
Prepare a process chart showing the main activities.
[10marks]

c)
What is the importance of work measurement?

[3marks]

4.
a)
Outline the procedure of work measurement.

[10marks]

b)
Why is it important for the management to know how long it should take

to carry out various kinds of work in production?
[7marks]

5.
a)
Outline Five (5) types of allowances that may be applied during work

measurement.

[5marks]

b)
An operator works for eight hours a day. A work sampling study shows

that he was idle for 15% of the day and that he worked the remainder of

the day at an average performance of 110%. The record shows that he

turned out 420 pieces of acceptable quality during the day. Find the

standard time per piece. Assume 15% allowances.
[7marks]

c)
A furniture making factory contained a group of 13 machines. The

management of the factory decided to find the percentage of time spent on
the
following
activities.
i)
Working
ii)
Running
iii)
Set-up
iv)
Idle
The
observations
were
recorded between 9.00am to 12.30 pm 1.30pm to

5.00pm. The total observation of the flow activities were

M//C
M//C
M//C
being
M//C
Working
Running
Set-up
Idle
Total Observation 288
475
83
530
Percentage 20.9%
34.5% 6.1% 38.5

Determine the limits between which it would be reasonable to assume the true

values to lie.

[8marks]
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