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The ability to design and operate manufacturing facilities that can quickly and effectively adapt to changing technological and market requirements is becoming increasingly important to the success of any manufacturing organization. In the face of shorter product life cycles, higher product variety, increasingly unpredictable demand, and shorter delivery times, manufacturing facilities dedicated to a single product line cannot be cost effective any longer.
The ability to design and operate manufacturing facilities that can quickly and effectively adapt to changing technological and market requirements is becoming increasingly important to the success of any manufacturing organization. In the face of shorter product life cycles, higher product variety, increasingly unpredictable demand, and shorter delivery times, manufacturing facilities dedicated to a single product line cannot be cost effective any longer.
The ability to design and operate manufacturing facilities that can quickly and effectively adapt to changing technological and market requirements is becoming increasingly important to the success of any manufacturing organization. In the face of shorter product life cycles, higher product variety, increasingly unpredictable demand, and shorter delivery times, manufacturing facilities dedicated to a single product line cannot be cost effective any longer.
The ability to design and operate manufacturing facilities that can quickly and effectively adapt
to changing technological and market requirements is becoming increasingly important to the
success of any manufacturing organization. In the face of shorter product life cycles, higher product variety, increasingly unpredictable demand, and shorter delivery times, manufacturing facilities dedicated to a single product line cannot be cost effective any longer. Investment efficiency now requires that manufacturing facilities be able to shift quickly from one product line to another without major retooling, resource reconfiguration, or replacement of equipment. Investment efficiency also requires that manufacturing facilities be able to simultaneously make several products so that smaller volume products can be combined in a single facility and that fluctuations in product mixes and volumes can be more easily accommodated. In short, manufacturing facilities must be able to exhibit high levels of flexibility and robustness despite significant changes in their operating requirements. In industry sectors, it is important to manufacture the products which have good quality products and meet customers demand. This action could be conducted under existing resources such as employees, machines and other facilities. However, plant layout improvement, could be one of the tools to response to increasing industrial productivity. Plant layout design has become a fundamental basis of todays industrial plants which can influence parts of work efficiency. It is needed to appropriately plan and position employees, materials, machines, equipments, and other manufacturing supports and facilities to create the most effective plant layout. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-03783-7_6 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4757-1355-8_26 http://www.academia.edu/6485034/A_review_of_applications_of_Analytic_Hierarchy_Process_i n_operations_management Importance of Plant Layout: The layout of a plant is quite important in view of the above definition but the importance of a layout may greatly vary from industry to industry. The possibility of attaining the best possible layout is directly proportional to following factors: The Weight, Volume or Mobility of the Product: If the final product is quite heavy or difficult to handle involving costly material handling equipment or a large amount of labour, important consideration will be to amount the product minimum possible e.g. boiler, turbines, locomotive industries and hip building companies etc. Complexity of the Final Product: If the product is made up of a very large number of components and parts i.e. large number of people may be employed for handling the movement of these parts from shop to shop or from machine to machine or one assembly point to another e.g. automobile industry. The Length of the Process in relation to Handling Time: If the material handling time represents an appreciable proportion of the total time of manufacturing, any reduction in handling time of the product may result in great productivity improvement of the industrial unit e.g. Steam Turbine Industry.
The Extent to which the Process Tends towards Mass Production:
With the use of automatic machines in industries for adopting mass production system of manufacturing the volume of production will increase. In view of high production output, larger percentage of manual labour will be engaged in transporting the output unless the layout is good.