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Facilities Planning, Location, Layout and Movement of Materials
Facilities Planning, Location, Layout and Movement of Materials
Narendran
MODULE 3
• Primary Factors
• Market nearness
• Raw-material availability
• Labour availability
• Transport availability
• Power and fuel supply
• Existence of similar firms
Secondary Facorst
• Climate suitability
• Character of the inhabiting community
• State and local taxation-rates
• Expansion facility
• Decentralization suitability
Selection Of Locality
Ample Market
Skilled Labour
Transport
Education
Recreation
High cost
High tax
Restrictions
• Industrial Estates
• Selection of site
– breakeven analysis
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Pic 2
• Visual inspection
• Use your experience, technical knowledge and identify the part families
that require the same kind of machines
• Study the route card and group the machines that process the same parts
Components
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1
Machines
2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
3 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
4 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
5 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
Numerical methods use the machine - component incidence matrix as the basic
• Similarities
• Cluster Analysis
• Array - Sorting
• Graph Theory
• Mathematical Programming
• Pattern Recognition
1 2 3 4 5 6
Machines 1 1 1 1 0 0 1
2 1 0 0 1 1 0
3 0 1 1 0 0 1
4 1 0 0 1 1 0
1 2 3 4
Machines 1 - 1 5 1
2 1 - 0 6
3 5 0 - 0
4 1 6 0 -
1 2 3 4
1 - 1 5 1 1-3-1
2 1 - 0 6 2-4-2
M
ac 3 5 0 - 0
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4 1 6 0 -
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Group (2,4) in one machine cell and (1,3) in another machine cell.
(2,4) takes part family (1,4,5) and (1,3) takes part family (2,3,6).
Here is the solution :
Components
1 4 5 2 3 6
Ma
2 1 1 1 0 0 0
chin 4 1 1 1 0 0 0
es
1 1 0 0 1 1 1
3 0 0 0 1 1 1
• Intercell move :
Common facilities :
• Painting
Costly machines :
What should we do ?
• Change technology
• Change process
• Subcontract
• composite measures
E Especially Important
I Important
O Ordinary Closeness is OK
U Unimportant
X Undesirable
Steps
Continue…
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Cost Elements
Purchasing, installing, maintaining
Operating
• Analysis
Guidelines
• Exert effort
• Question liberally...
• Satisfaction
Subject to ∑X
i
ij =1 ∀ j
∑X
j
ij =1 ∀ i
Note:
Procedure:
Assumption
Example