The document summarizes the operations layout of Art Impact Printers, which has been in business since 1984. It describes the three departments - cutting, printing, and binding. It notes issues with the layout such as limited space causing heat from machines and noise, and proposes justifications for the layout given the space constraints.

1. Productions & Operations
Management
Assignment No. 4
Layout Decisions
Submitted to:
Prof. KashifZaman
Submitted by:
AimaMasood 0030
MCOM
Punjab College
Date:
13th February 2013

2. Art Impact
The ART IMPACT PRINTERS started their business in 1984. The founder of art impact was
Mr. M KHURSEED .The office of art impact was situated in Davis road Lahore . At later they
shifted their office to Urdu bazaar in 1995. With the passage of time it was over taken by his
sonMr. M RASHID PARWAIZ. In 1999 he opened their branch in Faisalabad and in 2000
opened a new branch in Sargodha. In 2006 he opened new branches in other cities of Pakistan.
They mainly run their business in Lahore at Urdu bazaar. And the head office of Art impact is
also in Lahore.
The mission of Art Impact is to provide quality products in the field of printings. They are
providing their services of printing to different multinational companies. They are mainly
engaged in the printing ofBooks, Pamphlet’s and Flex Sign.

3. Services of Art Impact:
They are providing their services to different organization and to different institute which are
• Nestle
• NGO (shirkatgha)
• Hang ten
• Punjab College
• Textile
• Hotels
• Schools
• Denim
• NMC
• HKB
• GLORIA JENZ
Products
They are engaged in the production of
• Books
• Pamphlets
• Flex signs
• Tags
• Compositions

4. • Files
Service station:
There printing service station is divided into three departments:
Cutting Department
Printing Department
Binding Department
Operations involving in service station:
1) Cutting Department:
First department is cutting department where cutting of paper takes place according to
requirement of the printing order placed by the customer. They place there cutting machine at the
start because cutting of paper is essential element before printing they have two cutting paper
machine in this section and there are 3 workers which are work on that two machines. After the
cutting of paper, the paper than transfermanually to the second department that is printing
department with the help of workers.
2) Printing Department:
After cutting of the papers the papers are being transferred here in the printing department. The
printing department is 10 feet away from cutting department. There are four printing machines in
the department the distance between machines are 6 feet and 2 workers are working on each
machine its means there are 8 workers in printing department.
They have solna 125, GTO, heidelburg ,rota machines for printing department . Then the
printing process starts in printing department after printing of paper, the printed paper transfer to
binding department with the help of worker manually.

5. The distance between printing and binding department is of 12 feet.
3) Binding Department:
In binding department there are five workers. 2 workers are at binding machine because there is
only 1 binding machine which is used to make crease in the paper and the rest of the workers are
working manually in order to bind the products.
After binding of books the books are transfer to their store room which is 30 feet far away from
binding department. They transfer books manually with the help of workers from binding
department to store room.
Issues faced by art impact in their operations are:
1) Due to limited space machines are closely placed. Machines emit heat due to which
sometimes the environment gets suffocated which affects the efficiency of workers.
2) All papers are place at a same place in store room and sometimes papers mixed together
medium quality with high quality which cause delay in working process
3)The service stations take place in the basement due to which sometimes there are no mobile
coverage over there which is a hurdle between the communications or workers and instructor.
4)As there are machines under one roof so machines produces sounds while in the working
condition which makes the environment noisy which affects the working of labor.
Justification for choosing such layout:
In order they are having limited space for their operations that why they chose this layout in which they
place machineries side by side. Secondly this is the requirement of their business to place closely the
departments in order to make a stream of communication among the workers