Final Exam Flashcards
Why is Facilities Planning important?
Important because: Continual change is required to keep pace with changes in demands, new product phase-outs, process changes, improved tooling and technology etc.
What is Facilities Planning? Decisions made?
Facilities Location + Facilities Design
Process of locating and laying out industrial and service facilities to best support the facility.
Strategic
Tatical
Operational
Objectives seeked to address in facilities planning.
Marketing Strategy
Manufacturing Strategy
Distribution Strategy
What do each of these adress product, process and schedule design?
Product-What to produce?
Process-Who should produce and how to produce?
Schedule-How much to produce and when and how long to produce?
What is the volume-variety chart and how is it useful in the context of facilities design?
Plots the volumes of various products produced in decreasing order of volume.
The shape of the curve has implication for facility design.
What is scrap estimate? Why do you need to consider it? How do you compute it?
The amount of scrap thay each process produces. Quality scrap results both in more material requirements and also machine requirements.
Different Types of Layouts?
Product Layout (High Vol., Low Variety)
Fixed Location (Low Vol., Low Variety)
Group Tech. (Medium Vol., Med. Variety)
Process (Low Volume, High Variety)
Categories of space requirements?
Equipment (Machines)
Material (Mat. Needed in process point)
Personnel (Personnel Req., space to walk)
Categories of Material Handling Equipment
Conveyors- Equipment used to move materials over a fixed path between specific points
Industrial Trucks- over variable paths, with no restricitions on the area covered by the movement
Cranes- …over variable paths within restricted area
No equipment
Advantages of using computerized layout planning methods?
Addresses most of the complexities that come with constructing a layout
What are two broad types of layout procedures? How are they different? What are the inputs to each type?
Construction-REL Chart
Improvement-Starting Layout
From-To Chart
Features of BLOCPLAN
REL Chart Generate Random Layout Automatic Search For Layouts Manually Insert Departments Graphical Review of Saved Layouts Summary Table of Saved Layouts
Why are warehouses important for businesses?
Warehousing provides time and place utlity for raw materials, industrial goods, and finished products, allowing firms to use customer service as a dynamic value-adding competitive tool.
Missions of a Warehouse
Improving order picking operations Utlizing Cross Docking Increasing Productivity Utlizing Space Increasing value-added services
What are functions performed in a warehouse?
Receiving Inspection and QC Repackaging Putaway Storage Order Picking Postponement Sortation Packing and Shipping Cross-Docking Replenishing
