Facilty Layout - Operations Managment

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to thank our Professor Hima Gupta for giving us the opportunity to enhance our knowledge on the subject. We are also grateful for his support and encouragement all throughout. We also thank our peer members who have enriched our knowledge with immense discussions on the topic.

Table of content

Topics                                                                Page no.

1.        Objectives of Facility Layout

2.        Basic Layouts

3.        Designing Process Layouts

4.        Designing Service Layouts

5.        Designing Product Layouts

Line Balancing

6.        Cellular Layouts

7.        Flexible Manufacturing Systems

8.        Mixed – Model Assembly lines

9.        Summary

10.        References

Objective of Facility layout

Facility layout decisions deal with determining the arrangement of work which deals with placement of departments, work groups within the departments, workstation, machines and stock-holding points within a production facility

The most important concern of facility layout splanning is the reduction in cost of materials handling because poor material handling can generate business problems

Talking about objectives of facility layout not only quantitative aspects of a problem is important but also qualitative aspects should be kept in consideration. Hence facility layout has two objectives

1.        A qualitative one - such as safety, product mix and aesthetics        

2.        A quantitative one.

Closeness rating between the departments is the basis of qualitative objective. Quantitative objectives deal with minimization of total material handling cost between various departments

Facility layout is important in both factory and service organization. The main objective of facility layout is to ensure smooth work flow in a product organization and particular traffic pattern in service organization

Achievement of objectives of facility location requires following inputs

•        Specification of objectives

•        Corresponding criteria to evaluate the design

•        Demand of product and services on the system

•        Processing requirements in terms of operations

•        Space requirements for the element in the layout