22-Mec-B4 Integrated Manufacturing Systems
Worked solutions to 13 past sittings (2013–2019), 86 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
- December 2019
- December 2018
- May 2018
- December 2017
- May 2017
- December 2016
- May 2016
- May 2015
- December 2014
- May 2014
- December 2013
- May 2013
- Undated paper
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Break-even Analysis (4 sittings): December 2019 Q6 · May 2016 Q6 · May 2014 Q3 · Undated paper Q7
- Inventory Control (4 sittings): May 2018 Q5 · December 2016 Q2 · December 2014 Q7 · May 2014 Q2
- Materials Handling (4 sittings): May 2018 Q5 · December 2016 Q2 · December 2014 Q7 · May 2014 Q2
- Adaptive Forecasting (3 sittings): May 2016 Q4 · May 2015 Q5 · May 2013 Q1
- CAPP (3 sittings): December 2017 Q5 · May 2015 Q6 · December 2014 Q4
- Preventive Maintenance (3 sittings): May 2018 Q1 · December 2017 Q1 · May 2015 Q7
- Categories of Forecasting Techniques (2 sittings): December 2019 Q3 · May 2013 Q3
- Control (2 sittings): December 2018 Q5 · December 2016 Q6
- Demand Components (2 sittings): May 2016 Q4 · May 2015 Q5
- Dispatching (2 sittings): December 2018 Q5 · December 2016 Q6
- Forecasting (2 sittings): May 2018 Q5 · December 2016 Q2
- Group technology (2 sittings): December 2017 Q5 · December 2014 Q4
- Machinability Data (2 sittings): May 2017 Q5 · May 2015 Q6
- Mission Reliability (2 sittings): December 2019 Q1 · December 2018 Q3
- Order Types (2 sittings): December 2018 Q5 · December 2016 Q6
Questions by sitting
December 2019
- Question 1: Parts-Count Reliability and Mission Reliability
- Question 2: Process Aim and Capability, and Error of Measurement
- Question 3: Categories of Forecasting Techniques and a Two-Year Demand Series
- Question 4: Present Value of Ownership, and the Rate of Return on a Copier
- Question 5: Cycle Time and Production Rate of a Robot Cell
- Question 6: Break-Even Analysis and the Profit Effect of a Cost Trade
- Question 7: Priority Dispatching at a Single Work Centre
December 2018
- Question 1: A Control Criterion for the Watch-Gear Dimension
- Question 2: Break-Even Chart for the StaMCo Air Force Item
- Question 3: Mean Time Between Failures and Mission Reliability
- Question 4: Safety Margin on Strength, and Specification Limits from a Pilot Run
- Question 5: Production Planning and Control — Volume, Order Types and Dispatching
- Question 6: Numerical Control of Machine Tools
- Question 7: Robot Control Resolution and Memory Capacity
May 2018
- Question 1: Aggregate Production Planning and Preventive Maintenance
- Question 2: Load-Distance Analysis of a Four-Department Layout
- Question 3: Inventory Control System for a New Product
- Question 4: Control Charts for the Mean and the Range
- Question 5: Materials Handling, Inventory Control and Forecasting
December 2017
- Question 1: Planning strategies, preventive maintenance and forecasting categories
- Question 2: Two-dimensional geometric transformations
- Question 3: Lot sizing against a requirements schedule
- Question 4: Plant location by weighted factor rating
- Question 5: CAD, process planning, CAPP, routing sheets and group technology
- Question 6: Process capability against specification
- Question 7: Optimum ratio of men to semiautomatic machines
May 2017
- Question 1: The Semi-Generative Approach to Process Planning
- Question 2: PLC Design for a Four-Test Inspection Cell
- Question 3: Choosing an EOQ Approach in Three Awkward Cases
- Question 4: Redundancy and Component Reduction in Assembly Reliability
- Question 5: Generative Planning, Machinability Data and the Benefits of CAPP
- Question 6: Four Forecasts from One Five-Month Demand Series
December 2016
- Question 1: Operation Sequence Analysis and Block Layout
- Question 2: Materials Handling, Inventory Control and Forecasting
- Question 3: Inspection Organisation and the Role of Statistical Quality Control
- Question 4: Economic Order Interval and Total Annual Inventory Cost
- Question 5: Group Technology Cell Formation from a Machine-Part Matrix
- Question 6: Production Planning and Control — Volume, Order Types and Dispatching
May 2016
- Question 1: Economic Order Quantity and the Design of an Inventory Control System
- Question 2: Combining Product, Gage and Inspector Variability
- Question 3: Reliability and Maintainability of an Assembly
- Question 4: Demand Components, Adaptive Forecasting and Economic Forecasting
- Question 5: Accuracy, Precision and the Effect of Repeat Measurements
- Question 6: Break-Even Analysis and the Present Value of an Equipment Investment
May 2015
- Question 1: Lot Sizing Against a Requirements Schedule
- Question 2: Time Study, Standard Time and Incentive Earnings
- Question 3: A Control Criterion for a Purchased Watch Gear
- Question 4: Process Aim and Capability for Dustless Chalk
- Question 5: Demand Components, Adaptive Forecasting and Econometrics
- Question 6: Generative Process Planning, Machinability Data and CAPP
- Question 7: Production Planning Variables, Strategies, Search Decision Rule and Preventive Maintenance
December 2014
- Question 1: Process Capability and Average-and-Range Control Limits
- Question 2: Computer-Aided Process Planning — Justification, Types and Selection
- Question 3: Break-Even Justification of Numerically Controlled and Transfer Machines
- Question 4: CAD, Process Planning, CAPP, Routing Sheets and Group Technology
- Question 5: Design of an Inventory Control System for a New Product
- Question 6: Choosing an Economic Order Quantity Approach in Three Awkward Cases
- Question 7: Materials Handling, Inventory Control and Forecasting Model Selection
May 2014
- Question 1: Continuous Time Study — Average, Normal and Standard Time
- Question 2: Materials Handling, Inventory Control and Forecast-Model Selection
- Question 3: Break-even Analysis and Present Value of an Equipment Decision
- Question 4: Lot-Sizing a Requirements Schedule — EOQ, Periodic Reorder and Part-Period Balancing
- Question 5: Time Standards and Incentive Pay from a Short Study
- Question 6: Control Criterion for a Purchased Watch Gear, and its Relation to the Specification
- Question 7: Centralized Inspection, Computers in Quality Control, and the Educational Value of SQC
- Question 8: Computer Aided Process Planning, Part Coding and the Stages of a CAD System
December 2013
- Question 1: Process Planning in Discrete Parts Manufacturing
- Question 2: Control Limits for the Tabulated Data
- Question 3: Cells, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Just-in-Time and Plant Networks
- Question 4: Justifiable Lubricant Cost for a Ring-Rolling Operation
- Question 5: Assembly-Line Balancing
- Question 6: Selling Price and Breakeven for the Green Manufacturing Company
- Question 7: Forecasting the Demand for a Product
May 2013
- Question 1: Components of Demand, Adaptive Forecasting and Econometric Forecasting
- Question 2: Priority Dispatching at a Work Centre
- Question 3: Categories of Forecasting Technique, and Method Selection from Data
- Question 4: Facility Location by Weighted Factor Rating
- Question 5: Workforce Sizing for a Fixed-Deadline Contract
- Question 6: Shewhart Control Charts and Their Power to Detect a Shift
Undated paper
- Question 1: Order Interval and Total Inventory Cost
- Question 2: Control Limits, Detection Time and Detection Probability
- Question 3: Planning a Materials Handling System
- Question 4: Redundancy and Simplification in Assembly Reliability
- Question 5: Economic Order Quantity for Cemented-Carbide Inserts
- Question 6: Digital-to-Analog Conversion with a Zero-Order Hold
- Question 7: Break-even Analysis and Present Value of a New Machine