FACILITY LAYOUT Flashcards
(16 cards)
It is the arrangement of departments, work centers, equipment, and workstations, with particular emphasis on the movement of work (customers or materials) through the system
FACILITY LAYOUT
(Stevenson (2020).
It refers to the physical arrangement of machines, work centers, and departments within a manufacturing or service facility.
(Heizer, Render, and Munson)
• It is the planning and arrangement of work areas and equipment to provide the most efficient flow of work, materials, people, and information.
Russell and Taylor (Operations and Supply Chain Management)
Facility layout is the process of determining the placement of departments, workgroups within departments, workstations, machines, and stock-holding points within a facility.
(Chase, Jacobs, and Aquilano)
Facility layout decisions concern the physical arrangement of resources in a facility and significantly affect the efficiency of operations and customer satisfaction.
(Krajewski, Ritzman, and Malhotra)
Include the best placement of machines, offices, and desks, or service centers.
LAYOUT
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
Layout has strategic implication because it establishes an organization’s competitive priorities in regard to:
- Capacity
- Process
- Flexibility
- Cost
- Quality of work life
CONSIDERATIONS IN DESIGNING LAYOUT
CONSIDERATIONS
In all cases, layout design must consider how to achieve the following:
- Higher utilization of space, equipment, and people
- Improved flow of information, materials, and people
- Improved employee morale and safer working conditions
- Improved customer/client interaction
- Flexibility
TYPES OF LAYOUT
- Office layout
- Retail layout
- Warehouse layout
- Fixed- position layout
- Product-oriented layout / line flow layout
- Process-oriented layout
- Work-cell layout
The grouping of workers, their equipment, and spaces/office to provide comfort, safety, and movement of information
OFFICE LAYOUT
An approach that addresses flow, allocates space, and responds to customer behavior.
RETAIL LAYOUT
• A design that attempts to minimize total cost by addressing trade-offs between space and material handling.
WAREHOUSE LAYOUT
• A system that addresses the layout requirements of stationary projects.
FIXED-POSITION LAYOUT
Organized around products or families of similar high-volume, low-variety products.
PRODUCT- ORIENTED LAYOUT (LINE FLOW LAYOUT)
• A layout that deals with low-volume, high-variety production in which like machines and equipment are grouped.
PROCESS-ORIENTED LAYOUT
An arrangement of machines and personnel that focuses on making a single product or family of related products.
WORK-CELL LAYOUT
