Facility Planning

(Location and Layout)

Facility Layout

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 Facility layout

 Consider the problem of finding suitable locations for machines,

workstations, storage areas and aisles within a plant.

 The layout problem may also occur in other places such as grocery
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 Objectives of Facility layout

 A facility layout problem may have many objectives. In the

context of manufacturing plants, minimizing material
handling costs is the most common one.

 Other objectives include efficient utilization of

 space
 labor

 Eliminate
 bottlenecks
 waste or redundant movement
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Objectives of Facility layout

 Facilitate
 organization structure
 communication and interaction between workers
 manufacturing process
 visual control
 Minimize
 manufacturing cycle time or customer flow time
 investment
 Provide
 convenience, safety and comfort of the employees
 flexibility to adapt to changing conditions
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 Material flow system
If the flow of materials, parts, and
supplies within a manufacturing
facility is to be the subject of the flow
process, the process is called the material
flow system.

Production line
Process departments
departments

Layout
Types
Product family Fixed material
departments location departments

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 Product Layout

 This layout that uses standardized processing operations to achieve smooth,

rapid, high-volume flow

 Product layouts arrange this standardized tasks in a line according to the

sequence of operations that need to be performed to assemble a
particular product

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Product Layout

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Pros and Cons of Product Layout

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 Fixed Position Layout

 Fixed-Position layouts are layouts used in projects in which the product is

too fragile, bulky, or heavy to move e.g. ships, houses, aircraft

 Equipment, material, and workers are brought to the production site

 The workers on such job sites are highly skilled at performing the
special tasks that they are requested to do

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Fixed Position Layout

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Pros and Cons of Fixed Production Layout

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 Process Layout

 It is a layout that groups similar

activities together in
departments of work centers
according to the process or
function that they perform.

 The operations of each work center

could serve different customers
different needs.

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Process Layout

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Process Layout

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Process Layout – 1 product

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Process Layout – 2 products

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Process Layout – 3 products

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Process Layout – 4 products

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Pros and Cons of Process Layout

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 Process and Product Layouts

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Product Family Layout

Group technology (product

family) departments aggregate
medium volume-variety parts into
families based on similar
manufacturing operations and design
attributes.

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Product Family Layout

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Product Family Layout

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Before Product Familiy Layout

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Before Product Familiy Layout

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Before Product Familiy Layout

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Before Product Familiy Layout

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After Product Familiy Layout

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After Product Familiy Layout

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After Product Familiy Layout

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After Product Familiy Layout

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Pros and Cons of Product Family Layout

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Comparison of differen layouts

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Comparison of different layouts

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Tools for Facility Layout

Activity relationship chart

Software

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 Activity relationship chart

 An activity
relationship chart
(ARC) is a tabular means
of displaying the
closeness rating among
all pairs of activities or
departments.

 In an ARC there are six

closeness ratings
which may be assigned
to each pair of
departments
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 Activity relationship chart / example

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Activity relationship chart / example

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Activity relationship chart / example

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Activity relationship chart /example

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Activity relationship chart /example

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 Activity relationship chart /example

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 Activity relationship chart – Example

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Softwares for Facility Layout

CRAFT - Computerized Relative Allocation of Facilities Technique

CORELAP - Computerized Relationship Layout Planning
ALDEP - Automated Layout Design Program
COFAD - Computerized Facility Design

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