Facility Planning & Design

Factory Planning: Introduction, factors to be considered Plant Location and Site Selection: Objectives and importance of plant location and selection, Levels of plant location, rural, urban and suburban location of plants, factors influencing the plant location, optimum plant location, location theories.

Plant Layout: Introduction of production system, scope, objectives, importance, and types of plant layout, characteristics of a good plant layout, factors affecting plant layout, procedure of developing a plant layout, different graphical and computer based plant layout design techniques (e.g. ALDEP, CORELAP etc.), installation and evaluation of plant layout, optimum plant layout.

Group Technology: Definition, objectives, planning, part families and machine cell formation, product flow analysis, Rank order clustering, evaluation of machine cells, types of GT layout, benefits of GT, implementation of GT.

Line Balancing: introduction to assembly workstations, assembly line, Definitions, heuristic and analytical methods of balancing the assembly and production line, single and mixed model line balancing, alternatives to line balancing.

Materials Handling: Definition, scope, objectives, principles, importance, factors in materials handling problem, analysis of materials handling, types and selection of materials handling equipment’s, aids and techniques in materials handling equipment selection. Planning of material flow, advantages of planned material flow, flow planning principles, flow patterns, analysis of material flow.