GATE Industrial Engineering: Facility Design – Previous Year Questions
8 GATE previous year questions on Facility Design (Industrial Engineering, Production and Industrial Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2021 PI Q14 – Which computerized layout-design technique is an improvement heuristic?
- GATE 2021 PI Q39 – Choose a retail site by weighted factors. Weights are community income 0.4, demand growth 0.1, proximity to existing store 0.3 and public transport…
- GATE 2022 PI Q22 – Match layouts P:process; Q:product; R:fixed position, with production types 1:job; 2:batch; 3:mass.
- GATE 2023 PI Q45 – Choose a facility location using weighted scores (higher is better). Factor weights are raw materials 0.4, skilled labor 0.3, infrastructure 0.2 and…
- GATE 2024 PI Q19 – The shown four-department layout is input to CRAFT. Which pair cannot be exchanged?
- GATE 2024 PI Q62 – Three series assembly stations S₁,S₂,S₃ take 6,4,T minutes per toy. Steady-state line efficiency is 75%. Find maximum T (integer minutes).
- GATE 2025 PI Q49 – Six indivisible tasks occur sequentially in a single-line layout, taking 37,8,19,34,36,17 minutes. Find the number of stations needed to minimize…
- GATE 2026 PI Q64 – A steady-state assembly line performs cutting, welding, polishing in sequence. Three workers are assigned exclusively one to each task. Task times per…