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Facility layout involves arranging manufacturing aspects in an optimal way to achieve production goals. An effective layout ensures smooth material and worker flow at low cost, allocating space efficiently. The objectives of a good facility layout are to optimize space use, promote safety and order, reduce movement, and allow flexibility. Key factors that influence layout design are production objectives, space needs, safety measures, and management policies. Common layout types include line, functional, fixed position, cellular, and combined layouts.

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Om Facility Layout

Facility layout involves arranging manufacturing aspects in an optimal way to achieve production goals. An effective layout ensures smooth material and worker flow at low cost, allocating space efficiently. The objectives of a good facility layout are to optimize space use, promote safety and order, reduce movement, and allow flexibility. Key factors that influence layout design are production objectives, space needs, safety measures, and management policies. Common layout types include line, functional, fixed position, cellular, and combined layouts.

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FACILITY LAYOUT

WHAT IS FACILITY LAYOUT?


• Facility layout is an arrangement of different aspects of
manufacturing in an appropriate manner as to achieve desired
production results. Facility layout considers available space,
final product, safety of users and facility and convenience of
operations.
• An effective facility layout ensures that there is a smooth and
steady flow of production material, equipment and manpower
at minimum cost. Facility layout looks at physical allocation of
space for economic activity in the plant. Therefore, main
objective of the facility layout planning is to design effective
workflow as to make equipment and workers more productive.
Facility Layout Objective
A model facility layout should be able to provide an ideal relationship
between raw material, equipment, manpower and final product at
minimal cost under safe and comfortable environment. An efficient and
effective facility layout can cover following objectives:
• To provide optimum space to organize equipment and facilitate
movement of goods and to create safe and comfortable work
environment.
• To promote order in production towards a single objective.
• To reduce movement of workers, raw material and equipment.
• To promote safety of plant as well as its workers.
• To facilitate extension or change in the layout to accommodate new
product line or technology up gradation.
• To increase production capacity of the organization.
An organization can achieve the above-
mentioned objective by ensuring the
following:
• Better training of the workers and supervisors.
• Creating awareness about of health hazard
and safety standards
• Optimum utilization of workforce and
equipment
• Encouraging empowerment and reducing
administrative and other indirect work
Factors affecting Facility Layout
Facility layout designing and implementation is influenced by
various factors. These factors vary from industry to industry
but influence facility layout. These factors are as follows:
• The design of the facility layout should consider overall
objectives set by the organization.
• Optimum space needs to be allocated for process and
technology.
• A proper safety measure as to avoid mishaps.
• Overall management policies and future direction of the
organization
Design of Facility Layout
Principles which drive design of the facility layout need to
take into the consideration objective of facility layout,
factors influencing facility layout and constraints of facility
layout. These principles are as follows:
• Flexibility: Facility layout should provide flexibility for
expansion or modification.
• Space Utilization: Optimum space utilization reduces the
time in material and people movement and promotes
safety.
• Capital: Capital investment should be minimal when
finalizing different models of facility layout.
Design Layout Techniques
There are three techniques of design layout, and they are
as follows:
• Two or Three Dimensional Templates: This technique
utilizes development of a scaled-down model based on
approved drawings.
• Sequence Analysis: This technique utilizes computer
technology in designing the facility layout by sequencing
out all activities and then arranging them in circular or in a
straight line.
• Line Balancing: This kind of technique is used for assembly
line.
Types of Facility Layout
There are six types of facility layout, and they are as
follows:
• Line Layout
• Functional Layout
• Fixed Position Layout
• Cellular Technology Layout
• Combined Layout, and
• Computerized Relative Allocation of Facility
Technique
Computerized Relative Allocation of Facility
Tehnique

Product design and manufacturing have been


changing greatly in recent years, largely
because of the appliation of computer
technology.
Computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-
aided manufacturing (CAM) are part of the
cornerstones of the factory of the future.

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