Facility Layout Planning
Carefully planning the layout of your facility can have significant long term
benefits for your company's manufacturing and distribution activities.
Creating a sustainable growth plan is key to developing this plan. Many
issues must be considered in developing this plan:
- Production process routings and flows
- Material Handling methods and equipment requirements
- Product mix and volumes
- Sales growth plans
- Capacity planning and management
- Traffic, aisles and safety requirements
- Special manufacturing process requirements
- Workforce and supervisory requirements
- Process flexibility and agility requirements
- Work-in-Process flow and storage requirements
- Part size and storage requirement characteristics
- Building and property design constraints
- And more!
Detailed layouts using 3-D layout design tools. Using
3-D tools allows the facility layout to be visualized and validated.
It requires careful planning to develop a plan that considers this diverse
rage of issues and requirements. You must develop a plan that properly
weights and balances both the quantitative and qualitative issues. A well
designed facility can provide major reductions in material handling and labor
requirements while increasing capacity and throughput. Cycle time and
production costs can also see major improvement.
Technical Assist uses Systematic Layout Planning techniques for facility
layout planning. We use a combination of multi-dimensional quantitative
and qualitative analysis techniques to optimize your facility layout
plan. We then use state-of-the-art layout design tools to provide
maximum flexibility to design your facility.
 
Charts showing planning grid and optimized rectilinear
relationship diagrams.
Flow Intensity Diagram, showing composite process flows
and quantities. This chart allows the layout to be optimized and
quantified based on material handling costs.
Block diagram of facility showing locations of specific
areas and base process arrangement. From this layout detailed layout
plans are developed.
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