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Plant Layout M
Plant Layout M
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Plant Layout
Plant layout is also known as facilities layout. After the selection of factory site, the factory building is constructed at the selected site.
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b) Personal services like parking areas, time keeper office, canteen and lunch room etc. In relation to factory layout, plant layout is narrow consideration and concentrates on an arrangement of production and services dept. Along with the location and sequence of machines and equiupment .
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Types of Layout
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Inefficient: Long material transport routes from dept. to dept. Work in progress is high. Tracking of orders can be difficult.
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Advantages: Specialist labour and supervision. Flexibility as material can be rerouted in any sequence.
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Investment in specialised capital equipment is high, so a reliable and steady demand is required.
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e.g. Textile, sugar, petroleum, paper and pulp, cement plants etc.
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WIP Inventory
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Cells are autonomous manufacturing units which can produce finished parts.
Productivity and quality maximised. Throughput times and work in progress kept to a minimum.
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ASSEMBLY CELL 3
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Fixed Position Layout Single large, high cost components or products. Product is static. Labour, tools and equipment come to the work rather than vice versa. e.g. ship building , construction of dams and bridges etc.
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Maximum utilization of available space. Minimum material handling. Good working condition Facilitates supervision and control
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Poor utilization of available space. Excessive material handling distance. Excessive maintenance time and xost. Long production cycle time.
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