Facility Layout and Material Handling systems
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Facility Layout and Material Handling systems Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Facility Layout and Material Handling systems (subject code 3151508) as prescribed for Industrial · Semester 5 divides the course into 3 units, covering 40 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3151508)Unit 1 Location Selection
- Nature of Location Decision
- Importance of Plant Location
- Dynamic Nature of Plant Location
- Factor affecting Plant Location: General Location factor
- Specific location factors for manufacturing unit and Specific location factor for service unit
- Location theories
- Location models: Factor rating method
- Weighted Factor rating method
- Load distance method
- Centre of gravity method
- Break even analysis
- Comparison of location
- Locational Economics
Unit 2 Plant Layout
- Need for layout
- types of layout
- factors influencing product
- Fixed and combination layout: tools and techniques for developing layout: Process chart
- flow diagram
- string diagram
- template and scale models
- Layout planning procedure
- Visualization of layout
- revision and improving existing layout
- Quantitative methods of Plant layout: CRAFT
- ALDAP and CORELAP
- Relationship diagrams
Unit 3 Material handling
- Introduction to material handling
- Manual and mechanical handling
- Handling ratio
- Effects of handling on productivity
- Basic principles of material handling
- Analysis of material handling problem
- Organizing for material handling
- Analysis of cost of material handling
- Basic types of material handling equipment and its characteristic
- Uses and limitations
- Stability of forklift trucks
- Selection of material handling equipment
- Unit load handling
- Palletizing & packaging. 10 Subject Code: 3151508
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