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Facility layout refers to the arrangement of manufacturing elements to achieve desired production results, emphasizing flexibility, space utilization, and minimal capital investment. Various layout patterns include process, product, fixed position, cellular manufacturing, and hybrid layouts, each serving different operational needs. Additionally, effective workplace and store designs are crucial for optimizing productivity and customer experience, with various store layout types such as loop, grid, and free-flow layouts catering to different retail strategies.

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Facility layout refers to the arrangement of manufacturing elements to achieve desired production results, emphasizing flexibility, space utilization, and minimal capital investment. Various layout patterns include process, product, fixed position, cellular manufacturing, and hybrid layouts, each serving different operational needs. Additionally, effective workplace and store designs are crucial for optimizing productivity and customer experience, with various store layout types such as loop, grid, and free-flow layouts catering to different retail strategies.

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TOPIC: FACILITY LAYOUT

What is Facility Layout?

• it is an arrangement of different aspects of manufacturing in an appropriate


manner as to achieve desire production results.

DESIGNS OF FACILITY LAYOUT

• Flexibility: Facility layout should provide flexibility for expansion or modification,

• Space Utilization: Optimum space utilization reduces the lime in material and
people movement and promotes safety.

• Capital: Capital investment should be minimal when finalizing different models of


facility layout

LAYOUT PATTERNS IN CONFIGURING FACILITIES

• Process layout – also called functional layout or batch production layout, is


characterized by grouping together of similar machines, based upon the operational
characteristics.

• Product layout – in product lay out, also called straight line layout machinery
is arranged in one lines as per the sequence of production operations.

• Fixed position layout – this type of facility layout is used to assemble products
that are too large, heavy or fragile to move to a location for completion.

• Cellular manufacturing layout – in Cellular Manufacturing (CM) layout,


machines are grouped into cells, which function somewhat like a product layout in a
larger shop or o process layout.

• Combination or hybrid – it is difficult to use the principle of produce layout,


process layout, or fixed location layout facilities that involve fabrication of parts and
assembly. Fabrication tends to employ the process layout, while assembly areas
often employ the product layout.

ASSEMBLY LINE

• is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a


product in a sequential manner to create an end products.

•helps lower costs and makes goods and services allowable to mass markets.

ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING

•technique that helps distribute the same amount of tasks among

workstations. Involves Identifying:

•Set of tasks to be performed and time required to perform each task

•Sequence in which the tasks must be performers

•Desired output rate or forecast of demand for the assembly line


WORKPLACE DESIGN

• is the way a workplace is organized and equipped in order to create optimal


productivity by workers as well as provide maximum safety for workers.

The ergonomic workplace design aims at improving work performance (both in


quantity and quality), through:

*minimizing the physical strain and workload of the working person,

*facilitating task execution,, ensuring effortless information exchange with the


environment, minimization of the physical constraints, etc..

*ensuring occupational health and safety, *achieving ease of use of the various
workplace elements.

How to determine an Effective Workplace Design?

•Safety

- The condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, of


injury

•Job Design

- Outlining the task, duties, responsibilities, qualifications, methods and


relationships required to perform the given set of a job.

•Ergonomics

- Takes into account the physical capabilities of people of while designing jobs
to improve the productivity and safety

• Workforce Ethics

- The set of values, moral principles, and standards that need to be


followed by both employers and employees in the workplace

STORE LAYOUT

- Is the design of a store’s floor space and the placement of items within the store

- It is how the store is physically constructed to serve the customer

TYPES OF STORE LAYOUT

1. Loop Layout.

★ A major customer aisle begins at the entrance, loops through the store usually in
shape of a circle, square or rectangle and then returns to the customer to the front
of the store. Also known as your race track layout.

★The point of is to expose your customers to as much of your merchandise as


possible.

2. Grid Layout
★ is also the most traditional design seeing as if’s used mostly by supermarkets,
pharmacies and off-price retailers.

★ Counters and fixtures are placed in a long rows or “runs” usually at right angles
throughout the stores. Referred to as a maze.

3. Herringbone Layout

★ similar to the grid but with key differences.

★It features a main aisle from the decompression zone to the back wall with side
aisles go all the way to the walls.

4. Free-flow layout

★Considered as the simplest type of store layout.

★ Groups fixtures and merchandise into a free-flowing pattern on sales floor.

★ Customers are encourage to flow freely through all the fixtures because there are
usually no define traffic pattern.

5. Forced-Path Store Layout

★This layout directs the customer on a predetermined route through the retail store.

★Also called the mouse trap.

6. Diagonal Store Layout

★ uses aisles placed at angles to increase customer sightlines and expose new
merchandise as customers navigate through the space.

7. Angular Store Layout

★ relies on curved walls and corners, rounded merchandise displays, and other
curved fixtures to manage the customer flow.

8. Geometric Store Layout

★Merchandise displays of fixtures of various geometric shapes and size.

★ offers artistic expression and function when combined with the appropriate
displays and fixtures.

★ Millennials and generation Z are your target customers.

9. Mixed Store Layout

★uses design elements from multiple layouts to create a flexible option for retailers.

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