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Process Design and Facility Layout: Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin
Process Design and Facility Layout: Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin
Chapter 6
Process Design
and
Facility Layout
Capacity
planning
Forecasting
Facilities and
Product and Process Equipment
service design selection
Layout
Technological
change
Work
design
Introduction
• Outsourcing, trend, reasons
• Make or Buy?
– Available capacity
– Expertise
– Quality Consideration
– The nature of demand
– Cost
Process Selection
• Variety
– How much
• Flexibility
– What degree
• Volume
– Expected output
Process Types
• Projects
• Job Shops
• Batch Processing
• Repetitive/Assembly
• Continuous Processing
Product Design
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
One of a kind Low volume, Multiple Few major High volume
products, made low products products, high
Process to customer standardization moderate higher standardization,
order volume volume commodity
Characteristics products
Less Complexity, Less Divergence, More Line Flows
(1)
Complex and
highly customized Project
process, unique process
sequence of tasks
(2)
Jumbled flows, Job
complex work with process
many exceptions
(3)
Batch
Disconnected line
flows, moderately process
complex work
(4) Line
Connected line, process
routine work
(5) Continuous
Continuous
flows, highly process
repetitive work
Product-Process Matrix
Few High
Low Multiple Major Volume,
Volume Products, Products, High
One of a Low Higher Standard-
Kind Volume Volume ization
Flexibility-
Job Commercial
Quality
Shop Printer
Batch Heavy
Equipment
Assembly Automobile
Line Assembly
Continuous Sugar
Flow Refinery Dependability
Cost
Flexibility-Quality Dependability-Cost
Operations Management, Seventh Edition, by William J. Stevenson
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
6-8 Process Design and Facility Layout
Automation
Automation
Layout
• Product Layouts
• Process Layouts
• Fixed-Position
• Combination Layouts
Process Layout
Milling
Assembly
Grinding
& Test
Drilling Plating
Process Layout - work travels
to dedicated process centers
Functional Layout
111 111
Heat 111 Gear
333 Lathes
treat cutting 444
• Cellular Layout
– e.g. Shipbuilding
Cellular Layouts
• Cellular Manufacturing
– Layout in which machines are grouped into
a cell that can process items that have
similar processing requirements
• Group Technology
– The grouping into part families of items with
similar design or manufacturing
characteristics
In 1 2 3 4
Workers
Out 10 9 8 7
Heat Gear
-1111 Lathe Mill Drill -1111
treat cut
Heat
Assembly
222222222 Mill Drill Grind - 2222
treat
Heat
3333333333 Lathe Mill Grind - 3333
treat
Cycle Time
OT
O utput capacity =
CT
OT
CT = cycle tim e =
D
(D)( t)
N =
OT
Precedence Diagram
Precedence diagram: Tool used in line balancing
to display elemental tasks and sequence
requirements
c d e
0.7 min. 0.5 min. 0.2 min.
Solution to Example 1
Solution to Example 2
a b e
f g h
c d
Parallel Workstations
Bottleneck
60/hr. 60/hr.
1 min. 1 min. 1 min.
30/hr.
1 min. 30/hr.
Parallel Workstations