Strategic Layout Planning for Efficient Operations
Discover how to optimize physical arrangement to enhance productivity, minimize costs, and boost customer satisfaction. Learn about process, product, and hybrid layouts, and key criteria for performance evaluation.
Strategic Layout Planning for Efficient Operations
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CHAPTER 10 LAY OUT
THE CONCEPT • Competitive priorities + process + capacity physical arrangement of people, equipment/facilities and space • Lay out planning : planning that involves decisions about the physical arrangement of economic activity centers within the facility. So that the workers and equipment may operate effectively • Economic activity centers : what, how much space, configuration, location • Considering the issues of travel time, material handling cost, communication effectiveness
STRATEGIC ISSUES How well lay out meets the firm’s competitive priorities ? • facilitating the flow of materials and information • increasing the efficient utilization of labor & equipment • increasing customer convenience and sales • reducing hazard to workers • improving employee morale • improving communication
TYPES Process • Low volume, high-variety products • Grouping workstations/departments according to function • Resources are general purpose & less capital intensive • Flexible • High Utilization • More specialized supervision
Product • Repetitive and continuous production • Workstations/departments are arranged in linear path • High volume, faster processing rate • Lower inventories • Less unproductive time lost to changeovers and material handling
Hybrid • A combination of process and product layout - fabrication and assembly operations • A Cell : two or more dissimilar workstations located close together (GT, OWMM) • Flexible automation (flexible manufacturing system) : a group of computer-controlled workstataions
Fixed Position • A product is fixed in place and workers along with their tools and equipment come to the product to work on it • Massive product and difficult to move
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA • Level of capital investment • Requirements for material handling • Ease of stock picking • Work environment and atmosphere • Ease of equipment maintenance • Employee attitudes • Amount of flexibility needed • Customer convenience and level of sales
DESIGNING PROCESS LAYOUT • Gather information : space requirement by center, available space and closeness factor • Develop a block plan • Design a detail layout • Warehouse and office layouts
DESIGNING PRODUCT LAYOUT Line balancing : the assignment of work to stations to achieve the desired output rate with the smallest number of workstations • precedence diagram • desired output rate • cycle time • theoretical minimum • idle time, efficiency and balance delay