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GATE Production Planning and Control: Aggregate production planning, scheduling and material requirement planning – Previous Year Questions

4 GATE previous year questions on Aggregate production planning, scheduling and material requirement planning (Production Planning and Control, Mechanical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2022 ME (ME1) Q42 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Activities A to K are required to complete a project. The time estimates and the immediate predecessors of these activities are given in the table. If…
  2. GATE 2022 ME (ME1) Q59 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The product structure diagram shows the number of different components required at each level to produce one unit of the final product P. If there are…
  3. GATE 2024 ME Q34 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A set of jobs U, V, W, X, Y, Z arrive at time t = 0 to a production line consisting of two workstations in series. Each job must be processed by both…
  4. GATE 2026 ME Q47 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Four jobs are on order in a factory. As on day 20 of the production calendar, the corresponding due date and work remaining to complete these jobs (in…