facility

(noun)

The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.

Examples of facility in the following topics:

  • Facilities Layout

    • 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.
  • Higher Education

    • The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, which was signed into law by Johnson a month after he became president, authorized a dramatic increase in college aid within a five-year period and provided better college libraries, 10-20 new graduate centers, several new technical institutes, classrooms for several hundred thousand students, and 25-30 new community colleges each year.
    • Distinguish the key features - as well as the effects - of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Facilities Act, and the Higher Education Act.
  • Tariffs, expropriation, and the technological environment

    • 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.
  • Schistosomiasis

    • Schistosomiasis is common in countries that lack the facilities to maintain proper water supplies and sanitation facilities.
    • These supplies and facilities are often exposed to contaminated water that contains infected snails.
  • Warehousing

    • A set of computerized procedures handle the receipt of stock and returns into a warehouse facility, model and manage the logical representation of the physical storage facilities (e.g., racking), manage the stock within the facility, and enable a seamless link to order processing and logistics management in order to pick, pack and ship product out of the facility.
  • Strategic versus tactical operations decisions

    • Strategic operations decisions include facility location decisions, the type of technologies that the organization will use, determining how labor and equipment are organized, and how much long-term capacity the organization will provide to meet customer demand.
    • For example, the leaders of a new hospital must decide where to locate the facility to be accessible to a large number of potential patients.
  • The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis of 2008

    • The Fed responded to the financial crisis with conventional open market operations and unconventional credit facilities and bailouts.
    • To deal with the shrinking credit markets, the Fed created a selection of new credit facilities.
    • The Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) allows the banks that normally handle open market operations on behalf of the Fed to apply for overnight loans.
    • The Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility uses the primary dealers to give companies access to loans based on asset-backed securities, such as those related to credit card or small business debt.
    • These new credit facilities were created based on the hope that increasing liquidity in the market would induce firms and consumers to borrow and spend.
  • Location Choice and Site Planning

    • In the 1990s, MCI, a major US telecommunications company, decided to relocate its engineering services division from MCI's headquarters in Washington DC to Colorado Springs, Colorado to reduce labor and facility costs.
    • There are many factors that can determine where an organization will locate its facilities.
    • For any given situation, some factors become more important than others in how facility location affects an organization's efficiency and effectiveness.
    • In the 1990s, MCI, a major US telecommunications company, decided to relocate its engineering services division from MCI's headquarters in Washington DC to Colorado Springs, Colorado to reduce labor and facility costs.
  • Separate But Equal

    • Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race on the condition that the quality of each group's public facilities was to remain equal.
    • Although the Constitutional doctrine required equality, the facilities and social services offered to African-Americans were almost always of lower quality than those offered to white Americans.
  • Frontline Management

    • One example of a frontline manager is in a manufacturing facility.
    • Middle management may be located in the headquarters office, receiving reports from various frontline managers at different facilities across the globe.
    • These frontline managers will be directing operations at the facility, tracking employee behavior and interaction, assessing efficiency, and using technical skills to mentor workers and improve processes.
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