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Plant Layout Design

Plant layout design involves organizing a company's physical facilities to promote efficient use of resources and achieve production goals. The goals of plant layout design are to minimize costs, optimize quality, and promote effective use of people, equipment, and energy while providing employee safety and comfort. The plant layout procedure involves gathering information, analyzing production and material flows, planning support services, implementing the layout, and evaluating the results. Flow analysis considers all movement of parts through operations, transportation, storage, inspection, and delays to minimize costs and improve efficiency. Process charts, flow diagrams, and operations charts are used to graphically depict flows and identify opportunities to improve the layout.

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Plant Layout Design

Plant layout design involves organizing a company's physical facilities to promote efficient use of resources and achieve production goals. The goals of plant layout design are to minimize costs, optimize quality, and promote effective use of people, equipment, and energy while providing employee safety and comfort. The plant layout procedure involves gathering information, analyzing production and material flows, planning support services, implementing the layout, and evaluating the results. Flow analysis considers all movement of parts through operations, transportation, storage, inspection, and delays to minimize costs and improve efficiency. Process charts, flow diagrams, and operations charts are used to graphically depict flows and identify opportunities to improve the layout.

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Plant Layout Design

What is Plant Layout?


The organization of a companys physical facilities to promote the efficient use of
equipment, material, people and energy.
What are the Goals of Plant Layout Design?
Minimize unit costs
Optimize quality
Promote effective use of people, equipment, space and energy
Provide for employee convenience, safety and comfort
ontrol pro!ect costs
"chieve production deadlines
What Procedure is Followed in Plant Layout Design?
Plant Layout Procedure - Phase 1 Information Gathering
Determine #hat #ill $e produced
Determine ho# many #ill $e produced
Determine #hat components #ill $e made or purchased
Determine required operations
Determine sequence of operations
%et time standards for each operation
Plant Layout Procedure - Phase 2 Production and Flow Analysis
Determine the plant rate, &
Determine the num$er of machines
'alance production lines
%tudy the flo# requirement
Determine activity relationships
Layout each #or(station
Plant Layout Procedure - Phase !u""ort !er#ices
)dentify needs for personal and plant services
)dentify office needs
Develop total space requirements
%elect material handling equipment
"llocated area
Develop plot plan and $uilding shape
Plant Layout Procedure - Phase $ Im"lementation and %#aluation
onstruct master plan
%ee( input and ad!ust
%ee( approvals
)nstall
%tart up
*ollo# up
What is Flow Analysis?
onsiders the operations, transportations, inspections, delays, and storages required as a
part moves from receiving to shipping in a plant.
What are the goals of Flow Analysis?
to minimize distance traveled
to minimize $ac(trac(ing
to minimize cross+traffic
to eliminate unnecessary steps in the process
to com$ine steps in the process
to minimize production costs
What "lant flow analysis techni&ues are used?
Process charts
*lo# diagrams
Operations charts
Process harts
o operations
o transportations
o storages
o inspections
o delays
Process hart ,-ample
Analysis of Process 'harts
an ) eliminate this step.
an ) automate this step.
an ) com$ine this step #ith another.
an ) change the routing to reduce distances traveled.
an ) move #or(stations closer together.
an ) !ustify production aids to increase effectiveness.
/o# much does this part cost to produce.
Flow Diagram
0raphical diagram #hich sho#s the path traveled $y each part from receiving to stores to
fa$rication of each part to final assem$ly to pac(out to #arehousing to shipping. *lo#
Diagram ,-ample
Analysis of Flow Diagrams
Is there cross-traffic?
results in congestion and safety hazards
eliminated through proper placement of equipment, services and departments
Is there (ac)trac)ing?
costs three times as much as correct flo#
eliminated through proper location of operations
Are trans"ort distances e*cessi#e?
distance traveled costs money
e-cessive material handling can degrade quality
+"erations 'harts
0raphically sho# the ra# material, the $uyouts, the fa$rication sequence, the assem$ly
sequence, the equipment needs, the time standards, and a glimpse of plant layout.
The flo# process chart com$ines the operations chart #ith the process chart. ,ffective
tools for summarizing plant activities.
Operations hart ,-ample
!ummary of Flow Analysis
Provides critical information to layout designer including operation requirements,
material handling needs, storage needs, inspection requirements, delay reasons.
1ith this information, the designer is challenged to eliminate as many steps as possi$le,
com$ine steps, eliminate $ac(trac(ing and cross+traffic, reduce distance traveled, reduce
production costs, improve quality and increase safety
On to ,rgonomics and 2o$ Design

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