Unit 1 Introduction

4 lecture hours

• Facilities design function- Scope
• need for layout study
• types of layout problem
• Types of flow pattern
• Types of plant layout
• Significance and Scope of Facilities Layout Planning
• Facility design procedure

Unit 2 Plant location

6 lecture hours

• Plant location analysis-factors
• Facility location: Single facility location problem
• Multiple facility location problem
• Gravity facility location problem
• Euclidean distance location problem

Unit 3 Activity relationship analysis

2 lecture hours

• Activity relationship diagram
• dimensionless block diagram
• Flow analysis
• Computer generated REL chart

Unit 4 Layout design

6 lecture hours

• Design cycle - SLP procedure manpower
• machinery requirements – Computer algorithms - ALDEP

Unit 5 Quantitative methods

• Group technology-Production Flow analysis (PFA)
• ROC (Rank Order clustering)
• Quantitative analysis in cellular manufacturing

Unit 6 Manual Assembly Lines

• Assembly workstations
• Analysis of Single model assembly lines
• line balancing problems
• Line balancing algorithm: i) Largest candidate rule ii) Kilbridge and wester method iii) 06 Subject Code: 3724601 w.e.f