1. GREESHMA.E.D
SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL FISHERIES
CUSAT

2.  Howard J. Weiss and Mark E. Gershon
defined facility layout as "the physical arrangement
of everything needed for the product or
service, including machines, personnel, raw
materials, and finished goods. The criteria for a good
layout necessarily relate to people (personnel and
customers), materials (raw, finished, and in
process), machines, and their interactions."

3.  The arrangement of physical facilities such as
machinery, equipment, furniture etc. with in the
factory building in such a manner so as to have
quickest flow of material at the lowest cost and with
the least amount of handling in processing the product
from the receipt of material to the shipment of the
finished product.
 According to Riggs, “the overall objective of
plant layout is to design a physical
arrangement that most economically meets the
required output – quantity and quality.”

4.  Ease of future expansion or change
 Flow of movement
 Materials handling
 Output needs
 Space utilization
 Shipping and receiving
 Ease of communication and support
 Impact on employee morale and job satisfaction
 Safety

5.  From the point of view of plant layout, small business
or unit into three categories:
1. Manufacturing units
2. Traders
3. Service Establishments

6.  In case of manufacturing unit, plant layout
may be of four types:
(a )Process or functional layout
(b) Product or line layout
(c) Fixed position or location layout
(d) Combined or group layout

7.  Process layouts are facility configurations in
which operations of a similar nature or
function are grouped together. As such, they
occasionally are referred to as functional
layouts.
 Their purpose is to process goods or provide
services that involve a variety of processing
requirements

8.  Flexibility.
 Cost.
 System protection.
 Super vision can be more effective
 Motivation. -

9.  Utilization..
 Cost.
 Confusion.
 Time gap or lag

10.  Machines and equipments are arranged
in one line depending upon the sequence
of operations required for the product.
 The materials move form one
workstation to another sequentially
without any backtracking or deviation

11.  · Output: large volume in short
time
 ·Cost: absence of back tracking
 ·Utilization: labor and equipment

12.  Motivation. –repeated job
·
 · Flexibility. -
 · System protection
. cost

13.  The arrangement of a facility so that the
product stays in one location; tools,
equipment, and workers are brought to it
as needed

14. • Time
• Flexible
• economical when several orders in different
stages of progress are being executed
simultaneously
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15. • Space
• Conflicts
• cost

16.  Many situations call for a mixture of
the three main layout types. These
mixtures are commonly called
combination or hybrid layouts.

17.  a) Factory building:
 b) Nature of product.
 c) Production process:
 d) Type of machinery:
 e) Repairs and maintenance.
 f) Human needs
 g) Plant environment: