BATCH: 2018-2020

SEMESTER –III

PAPER: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (MB301)

Facility Layout

FACULTY: Mrs.E.Sajitha,

Asst. Professor,MBA

Contents :

Facility Layout – Meaning , Objectives

Factors influencing Layout

Facility Layout – Principle and Importance

Types of layout

Layout Planning

Case Study

Plant/Facility Layout :

Disposition of various facilities within the

area of the site selected. It begins with the design of

the factory building and goes to the location and

movement of a worktable.

Arrangement of –

Machinery

Equipment

Other industrial facilities

Achieving Quick production at least cost.

Objectives of Good Layout

-Material handling costs.

-Movement of people and material

-Hazards to personnel

-Accidents

- Production capacity

- labour efficiency

- Employee morale

- Space utilization

- Ease of Supervision and Maintenance

Factors Influence

Material

Product

Manpower

Machinery

Type of Industry

Location

Managerial

Policies

Principles For Ideal Layout

Ideal

Layout

Minimum Travel (minimum movements &

material handling)

Sequence

(Smooth & continuous

flow)

Usage and Flexibility

Safety and Satisfaction (improved

environments)

Compactness and Minimum

investment

(cubic space utilization)

Importance

Economies in handling

Effective use of available area

Minimization of production delays

Improved quality control

Avoidance of bottlenecks

Continued…

Better production control

Better supervision

Improved utilization of labor

Improved employee morale

Avoidance of unnecessary and

costly changes

Types of Layout

Product Layout

Fixed Position Layout

Service Facility Layout

Process Layout

Cellular Manufacturing Layout

Combined Layout

Process layout:

Functional layout /job lot manufacture or batch

production layout.

Involves grouping of similar machines or similar

operations at one location

General purpose machines.

Advantages of Process Layout:• Greater Flexibility• Better and more efficient supervision possible

through specialization• Capacity of different product line can be expanded

easily.• Better utilization of men and machine.

Disadvantages:•Completion of same product takes more time.•More floor space•More work in progress•More distance travelled by the product.•Production control becomes difficult

Process layout:

Product Layout

Straight Line or Layout for Serialized Manufacture.

Arrangement of machines in ONE LINE depending on

the sequence of operations.

Materials are fed in the first machine & finished

products comes out from the last machine.

Preferred for continuous production

Eg: Chemical, rubber, refineries, cement industry,Sugarcane mill and paper mill

Product layout

Advantages:•Mechanization of materials is possible and material handling cost can be reduced.•It requires less floor area.•It facilitates better production control.•Production bottlenecks are avoided.

Disadvantages:•Expansion of product line is difficult.•There is difficulty is supervising.•Breakdown of equipment disrupts the production.

Combined layout

Combination of different types of layout viz. product

layout and process layout.

Fixed Position Layout

Movement of men and machines to the product.

Bulky product.

Eg: Aircraft assembling, ships, construction of a building, assemble of an ship.

Fixed position

Advantage:Less investment is required in this layout and less transport cost asbulky machines are not moved.

Service facility layout

Service oriented industries like Banks, Hospitals etc

Why revision??...

Expansion

Technological advancements

Improvement in the layout

Case study

MacDonald’s kitchen layout

REFERENCE:

1) INDUSTIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, AUTHOR- O.P KANNA

2) PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT,

AUTHOR- K.ASHWATHAPPA & K.SHRIDHARA BHAT