Table 1-1.

Major Elements of Facilities Design (utputs

s Typical Inputs Production Acti itie 1. Plant Display,

! "are#ouse

convenient access, transfers ownership Sorting and accumulating

Orderly arrangement of letters and parcels Meals of Cured patients 'appy peopl

$. %etail &tore

'. Post (ffice

reparation of food

). %estaurant *. +ospital

(ood and supplies Sick patients, medicine, supplies (ood, supplies, equipment, etc) activity

,. +ome

Materials and supplies

Large quantities of merchandise Orders of merchandise Letters and parcels Conversion of materials to parts, assemblies, products Safekeeping and avail ability

Services required to !cure! patients Meals and orderly roducts "and scrap#$ Orders of mer% chandise &ndividual items for customers

material flow, information flow, and the methods required in achieving enterprise objectives efficiently, economically, and safely. In general, the overall objective of facilities design is to get the inputs (material, supplies, etc.) into, through and out of each facility in the shortest time practicable, at acceptable cost. In industrial terms, the shorter the amount of time a piece of material spends in the plant, the less opportunity it has to collect labor and overhead charges. Most facility design work deals with industrial facilities or plants, and this te t deals primarily with that area of activity. It should be understood that an easy translation of the e amples and terminology used will make it possible to apply the concepts, principles, and procedures to the design of any facility, for any productive enterprise.

Scope of (acilities Design

!acilities design work is frequently thought of as dealing only with the careful and detailed planning of production equipment arrangement. "owever, this is really only one phase of a very e tensive series of interrelated activities making up a typical facility layout project.