Layout for Manufacturing Facilities

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Layout for manufacturing facilities

facility layout means planning for the location of all machines, utilities, employee workstations, customer service areas, material storage areas, aisles, rest rooms, lunchrooms, drinking fountains, internal walls, offices, and computer rooms, and for the flow patterns of materials and people around, into, and within buildings. Through facility layouts, the physical arrangement of these processes within and around buildings, the space necessary for the operation of these processes, and provided the space required for support functions. As process planning and facility layout planning information continuous interchange between these two planning activities, because each affects the other

Some Objectives of Facility Layouts

There are many objectives of facility layouts these are:-

1- objectives for manufacturing operation layouts

* Provide enough production capacity.

* Reduce materials-handling costs .

* Conform to site and building constraints .

* Allow space for production machines.

* Allow high labor, machine, and space utilization and productivity.

* Provide for volume and product flexibility.

* Provide space for rest rooms, cafeterias, and other personal-care needs of employees .

* Provide for employee safety and health.

* Allow ease of supervision .

* Allow ease of maintenance.

* Achieve objectives with least capital investment.

2- additional objectives for Warehouse operation layouts

* Promote efficient loading and unloading of shipping vehicles.

* Provide for effective stock picking, order filling, and unit loading.

* Allow ease of inventory counts.

* Promote accurate inventory record keeping.

3- additional objectives for service operation layouts

* Provide for customer comfort and convenience .

* Provide appealing setting for customers.

* Allow attractive display of merchandise.

* Reduce travel of personnel or customers.

* Provide for privacy in work...