Lecture 4: Process Layout

Question 1

What is the work behind facility layout planning?

Answer 1

Physical location of:

1. departments, workshops
2. machines, storage areas
3. including offices and business-related service areas

Question 2

What is the motivation behind Facility Layout?

Answer 2

1. facilitation of the production process
   → coordination of the sequence of operations
2. Reduction of idle times
   →
3. Minimizing the cost of transport
   → carefully examining the flows of materials
4. Economical use of the available area
5. Reducing of cost
6. Maintaining flexible instalations of equipment
7. rational use of labor, ensuring safe working conditions
8. improvment of safety and comfort

Question 3

What is a flow and what are the categories?

Answer 3

-movement of good, material, energy, information and people

Categories:

• material management system (inward-inbound)
• material flow system (within)
• physical distribution system (outward-outbound)

Question 4

What are the types of production layout?

Answer 4

1. productiotion line product layout
2. Fixed product layout
   → product has set location and is worked arround
3. Product family layout
   →
4. Process layout

Question 5

What are pros and cons about the process layout?

Answer 5

+ higher availability
+flexibility of production mix and usage for new products
+more specialzied and skilled workers
+less workers for operating machines
+ quality of production

• higher WIP
• more complex material handling
• less efficiency/longer production lead time
• more complex supervision
• more conflicts in resource
• higher set-up times

Question 6

What are pro/cons of group layout?