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Combined Layout / Group Technology Layout/ Hybrid Layout

This document describes three types of manufacturing layouts: combined layout, fixed position/stationary layout, and cellular manufacturing layout. The combined layout contains aspects of both process and product layouts with an emphasis on one. The fixed position layout keeps materials stationary while tools, machinery, and workers are brought to the materials. The cellular manufacturing layout groups machines into cells that specialize in part families and allow parts to flow through cells in different routes.

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Combined Layout / Group Technology Layout/ Hybrid Layout

This document describes three types of manufacturing layouts: combined layout, fixed position/stationary layout, and cellular manufacturing layout. The combined layout contains aspects of both process and product layouts with an emphasis on one. The fixed position layout keeps materials stationary while tools, machinery, and workers are brought to the materials. The cellular manufacturing layout groups machines into cells that specialize in part families and allow parts to flow through cells in different routes.

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Combined Layout / Group Technology Layout/ Hybrid Layout

This layout contains a mix of process and Product layout.


-This layout is considered for special production line.
A combination of product and process layouts with an emphasis on either is noticed in most industrial
establishments. Plants are never laid out in either pure form. It is possible to have both types of layout in
an efficiently combined form in plants involving the fabrication of parts and assembly; fabrication tends
to employ the process layout while assembly areas often employ the product layout. The following figure
illustrates combined layout. The departments are arranged according to type of processes, but the product
flow through on a product layout.

Fixed position / stationary layout:

In this type of layout, material remains at a fixed place and the complete job is done at a fixed station
with materials.
-It involves the movement of men and machines to the product which remains stationary for the
necessary operations. In this layout, major component remains in a fixed location and tools machinery
and men as well as other pieces of material are brought to this location. The movement of men and
machines to the product is advisable because the cost of moving them would be less than the cost of
moving the product which is very bulky. This type of layout is followed in the manufacture of bulky and
heavy products such as Hydraulic turbines, ship building, Locomotive Industry. Construction of
building requires fixed location layout because men, cement, sand, bricks, steel, wood and others are
taken to the site of construction.
Cellular manufacturing layout:

In this layout the machines are grouped into cells, and the cells function somewhat like a product layout
with in a larger shop or process layout.
Each cell in the CM layout is performed to produce a single parts family- a few parts, all with common
characteristics which usually means that they require the same machines and have similar machine
settings. The flow of parts with in cells as shown in fig can take many forms. For example, in cell #1, and
cell #2, the parts in the part family flow through the same machines in a product focused, line flow
fashion. But in cells #3 and #4, parts take different routes through the cells because of differences
between the design of the two Parts.

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