PR663

 

FACILITIES PLANNING

 

Facilities requirement - need for layout and its types.

Plant location analysis –simple problems in single facility location models, network location problems.

Layout design - Design cycle – computer algorithms – ALDEP, CORELAP, and CRAFT.

Group technology – Production Flow analysis (PFA), ROC (Rank Order Clustering) – Line balancing

Material handling design - handling equipment types , selection and specification, containers and packaging.

REFERENCES

  1. Tompkins,J.A. and J.A. White,Facilities planning, John Wiley,1984.

  2. Richard Francis,L. and John A. White, Facilities layout and location,an analytical approach,Prentice Hall Inc 1984.

  3. James Apple. M., Plant layour and Material handling, John Wiley, 1977.