Facilities Planning
This course covers strategic facilities planning through detailed facilities layout design. Course components include product flow, space and activity relationships, personnel requirements, line-balancing, material handling, and layout. Traditional and contemporary issues in manufacturing and their impact on facilities design including receiving, shipping, warehousing and integration with manufacturing and supporting operations are explored. Facilities planning models and the process of evaluating, selecting, preparing, presenting, and implementing the facilities plans are covered.
Practice research techniques and methods of investigation as an
inherent part of learning.
Introduction to Facilities Planning & KPIs
Manufacturing Systems Classification and Types of Layout
Product, Process and Schedule Design
Flow Systems, Activity Relationship and Space Requirements
Personnel Requirements
Material Handling Principles, Equipment, Systems Modeling and Design
Warehouse Operations and Design
Line Balancing
Location Selection
Quantitative Facilities Planning Models
Computerized Layout Methods