Types of Plant Layout and Advantages

A fixed-position layout is appropriate for a product that is too large or too heavy to move. For example, battleships are not produced on an assembly line. Other fixed-position layout examples include construction (e.g., buildings, dams, and electric or nuclear power plants), shipbuilding, aircraft, aerospace, farming, drilling for oil, home ...

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Four Main Types of Plant Layout

Fixed Position Layout: This type of layout is the least important for today's manufacturing industries. In this type of layout the major component remain in a fixed location, other materials, parts, tools, machinery, man power and other supporting equipment's are brought to this location.

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Types of Plant Layout

Below we explain main types of plant layout, oriented to process, product, cellular or fixed position. In this layout distribution the activities are organized in a functional way, without any relationship with the product, which will be moved from one activity to next one in each operation.

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Plant Lay out

Plant layout refers to the physical arrangement of production facilities. It is the configuration of departments, work centres and equipment in the conversion process. It is a floor plan of the physical facilities, which are used in production.

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TYPES OF PLANT LAYOUTS

The fulfilling the objectives of a good layout as per yearly product requirement and product types, the layouts are classified into four major categories namely fixed or position layout, line or product layout, process or functional layout and combination or group layout.

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6.2: Facility Layouts

Describe four major types of facility layouts: process, product, cellular, and fixed position. The next step in production planning is deciding on plant layout—how equipment, machinery, and people will be arranged to make the production process as efficient as possible.

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PLANT LAYOUT AND MATERIAL HANDLING

Introduction – classification of layout, advantages and limitations of different layouts, layout design procedures, over view of the plant layout. Heuristics for plant layout-ALDEP, CORELAP, CRAFT, Group Layout, Fixed position layout- Quadratic assignment model. Branch and bound method.

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