This document discusses facility layout, which is the arrangement of machinery, equipment, and other industrial facilities within a factory or warehouse. The objectives of facility layout include achieving quick production at low cost by minimizing material handling costs, movement of people and material, hazards, accidents, and maximizing production capacity, labor efficiency, employee morale, space utilization, and ease of supervision and maintenance. The types of layouts discussed are straight line or serial layout, process layout, and cellular layout.

1. FACILITY LAYOUT
Prepared by
Mrs. C.Revathi BE, MBA.,

3. Facility Layout – Meaning , Objectives
Factors influencing Layout
Facility Layout – Principle and Imporatnce
Types of layout

4. Meaning :
Arrangement of –
Machinery
Equipment
Other industrialfacilities
Achieveing Quick production at least cost.

5. -Material handling costs.
-Movement of people and material
-Hazards to personnel
-Accidents
- Production capacity
- labour efficiency
- Employee morale
- Space utilization
- Ease of Supervision and Maintenance

7. Types of Layout

8. Straight Line or Layout for SerialisedManufacture.
Arrangement of machines in ONE LINE depending on
the sequence of operations.
Materials are fed in the first machine & finished
products comes out from the last machine.
Eg:Sugarcane mill and paper mill

10. Movement of men and machines to the product.
Bulky product.
 Eg: Aircraft assembling, shipsetc.

13. Functional layout /job lot manufacture or batch
production layout.
Involves grouping of like machines in one department.
General purpose machines.

17. Machines grouped into cells.
Each cell is formed to produce a few partswith
common charecters.