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GATE Production & Industrial

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2026 Q14

Which ONE of the following options represents correctly ALL the constraints resulting in the feasible region for the given linear programming problem as shown in the figure? Note:...

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2026 Q17

Which ONE of the following CORRECTLY matches the metrology instruments and their respective most common applications? Metrology Instrument P Sine bar Q Profilometer R Vernier calli...

Industrial Engineering/MTF/answer key
2026 Q23

Which ONE of the following is NOT an assumption of the economic order quantity (EOQ) model?

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2026 Q24

Painting is one of the activities in a construction project. For the painting activity that takes 6 days, both the total float and the free float are zero. Which ONE of the followi...

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2026 Q32

A customer has made a lumpsum investment of INR 2,00,000 with a bank. The discount rate is 15% per year. The investment enables the customer to receive a payout of INR 1,00,000 yea...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2026 Q44

In an M/M/1 queuing system, the customers arrive at a rate of 3 per minute, and the average number of customers in the system is n at steady state. Assume that the server utilizati...

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2026 Q49

Which ONE or MORE among the following options is/are TRUE for the ideal operating characteristics (OC) curve given in the figure? Note: $p_0$ represents the acceptable quality leve...

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2026 Q50

The operation chart of a method of assembling nuts and bolts for a left-handed operator has been illustrated in the figure. Which ONE or MORE among the following options is/are COR...

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2026 Q52

A linear slot is to be milled in a single pass from the point (0, 0) to (180, 180) on XY plane by a CNC machine. The actual velocity along the Y-axis is 5% less than the intended v...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2026 Q53

In laser beam machining, the time ($t_m$) required for the material to attain the melting temperature from a room temperature ($\theta_0$) of 32 °C is expressed by the following ex...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2026 Q54

In the measurement of surface roughness using a 2D stylus profilometer, a surface profile measured over a length of 0.8 mm was recorded on a graph paper. During recording, vertical...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2026 Q57

A company has a fixed cost of INR 3,00,000 and a variable cost of INR 150 per unit for manufacturing of a product. The company sells 5,000 units of that product making a profit equ...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2026 Q58

A company must allocate oil produced from their two plants to meet all the demands of two markets. The cost per litre of allocation from plant $i \in \{1,2\}$ to market $j \in \{1,...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2026 Q59

The computer centre (CC) in an institute manages the central server for which researchers queue to run their computer programs. CC processes programs only one at a time. Four compu...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2026 Q62

A time study was carried out for a job broken into two elements. For each element, three iterations of task were observed, and observed time was recorded. The observed times (in se...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2026 Q64

Consider an assembly line producing an item through a process involving three activities in the following order: cutting, welding, and polishing. There are three workers available:...

Industrial Engineering/NAT/answer key
2017 PYQ

In a calendar year, the demand forecast of motorbikes for the month of june is $$200.$$ The actual demand of motorbikes for the month of June and July are $$300$$ and $$350,$$ resp...

Industrial Engineering/INTEGER
2017 PYQ

An electrical appliances showroom sells $$2,400$$ ceiling fans in one year ($$52$$ weeks). The holding cost is $$10\% $$ of the cost of the ceiling fan. The most of one ceiling fan...

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2016 PYQ

The throughput rate of a production system is $$20$$ units per hour. The average flow time is $$30$$ minutes and the cycle time is $$3$$ minutes. The average inventory (in units) i...

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2015 PYQ

A line balancing problem is solved in the context of

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2015 PYQ

Arrival of machines for repair in a maintenance shop follows a Poisson distribution at a rate of one per $$18$$ hours. The time to repair follows an exponential distribution with M...

Industrial Engineering/MCQ/answer key
2015 PYQ

A manufacturing line requires $$7.2$$ minutes to make a product. The line has six workstations arranged as per the required sequence of operations. Total production required is $$3...

Industrial Engineering/INTEGER