Examples of facilities layout in the following topics:
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- In this unit, we're going to focus on facility design and layout.
- Facility managers should consider several factors when designing the layout of a facility to achieve maximum effectiveness.
- Make sure that same is true of your facilities layout.
- Office facility layout is harder to quantify than factory facilities layout, but the goal should be to minimize communication costs and maximize productivity.
- Your industry can also influence the facilities layout design.
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- Earlier in this chapter, we described the efficiencies that repetitive process layouts provide.
- Repetitive process layouts are perfectly suited for driving out non-value-added activities and transitioning to a JIT environment.
- Intermittent layouts feature dozens or even hundreds of different paths through the facility.
- In contrast, cell layouts promote JIT goals by featuring unidirectional product flows, high visibility, and fast throughput times.
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- unnecessary transportation (material handling, customer travel through a facility, etc. )
- In a manufacturing setting, there are six major ways to pursue JIT goals: inventory reduction to expose waste, use of a "demand-pull" production system, quick setups to reduce lot sizes, uniform plant loading, flexible resources, and cellular flow layouts.
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- Raw materials and components are routed through the facility according to the type and order of manufacturing activities necessary to produce the finished items.
- Exhibit 28 illustrates how two different products, "A63" and "B5" make their way through an intermittent process layout.
- The units flow through the facility in a uniform pattern until they are completed and shipped to the customer.
- A compromise solution is the cellular process layout that captures the advantages of both intermittent and repetitive processes.
- By setting up multiple dedicated cells, the facility can efficiently produce a wide variety of products (Exhibit 30).
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- For example, if an organization makes furniture, some of the operations management decisions involve the purchasing of wood and fabric, the hiring and training of workers, the location and layout of the furniture factory, and the purchase of cutting tools and other fabrication equipment.
- In another example, the owners of a restaurant must make important decisions regarding the location, layout, and seating capacity of the restaurant, the hiring, training, and scheduling of chefs and servers, the suppliers of fresh food at the right prices, and the purchase of stoves, refrigerators, and other food preparation equipment.
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- In contrast, cell layouts promote JIT goals by featuring unidirectional product flows, high visibility, and fast throughput times.
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- Major operations decisions areas include inventory, capacity, quality, scheduling, process type, technology, location, layout, and supply chain management.
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- A thorough investigation revealed that a signifi cant portion of the company's raw materials was indeed being wasted at every stage of operation due to a poorly designed plant layout, the inability of certain production stages to cope with the smooth flow of production, and inefficient conveyors and dicing machines.
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- Many of these facilities end up as private rather than government organizations.
- Lack of data processing facilities makes the tasks of planning, implementing, and controlling marketing strategy more difficult.