Separating the maintenance shop from the pattern shop had a

number of advantages. It would take people from the casting depart-

ment only 1 minute instead of 3 to get to the new maintenance room.
Cleaning,
grinding, The time from molding to the pattern shop would be unchanged.
Storage
and and Using motion and time studies, George was also able to determine
preparation shipping that improving the layout of the maintenance room would allow Bob
to serve 6 people from the casting department per hour; improving
the layout of the pattern department would allow Pete to serve 7 peo-
Patte ple from the molding shop per hour.
Maintenance
sho rn
p Discussion Questions
Casting
1. How much time would the new layout save?
Molding
Sand 2. If casting personnel were paid $9.50 per hour and
molding personnel were paid $11.75 per hour, how much could
be saved per hour with the new factory layout?
3. Should George have made the change in layout?
FIGURE D.7 ■ Overview of Factory after Changes Source: From Quantitative Analysis for Management, 9th ed., by B. Render,
R. Stair, and M. Hanna pp. 602-604. Copyright © 2006. Reprinted by per-
mission of Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.