3. LOCATION OF FACILITIES
This initial planning stage involves selecting the
region or general area in which then plant or
facility should be located.
4. Location decision
• Choice of location
• Alternate location options
• Factors relevant to the facility being planned
• Screening location planning
• Tow types
• Location rating analysis
• Cost benefit analysis
• Best location choice
5. Layout of facilities
• Layout refers to the arrangement of facilities a
plant layout refers to the arrangement of
machinery, equipment and other industrial
facilities.
6. Principles of plant layout
• Principles of over all integrator
• principles of minimum disuse
• principles of cubic space
• Principles of satisfaction and safety
• Principles of flexibility
• Principles of flow
7. Types of plant layout
• Process layout
• Group layout
• Fixed position layout
• product layout
8. Process layout
• Process layout is also know has functional
layout this are most common for small to
minimum value manufactures
9. Product layout
• In a product layout machines are organized to
conform to the sequence of operations
required to produce the product.
10. Group layout
• With increased emphasis on automated
factored and flexible manufacturing systems
group technology layouts have received
considerable attention in recent years.
11. Fixed layout
• Some products are to big to be move so the
product reminded fixed and the layout is
based on this product size the shape.
12. Benefits of Group technology
• Reduced flow times
• Process time saves
• Inventory reduction
• Job enlargement
• Quality improvement
13. Limitation of group Technology
• High cost
• Not suitable for large variety of products
• No suits all applications
14. Flexible manufacturing
• An flexible manufacturing is a process
technology that can produce a moderate
variety of products in modest volumes and
can do so quickly and with high quality.