Facility layout involves planning the location of all machines, workstations, storage areas, offices, and other facilities within and around a building to optimize the flow of materials and people. Key considerations for facility layout include locating equipment, workstations, material storage, break areas, utilities, eating areas, aisles, and offices while ensuring the layout supports productivity and costs. Facility layout decisions are infrequent, expensive to implement, require extensive study and evaluation, and represent long-term commitments.

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Facilities Layout
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Overview
 Facility Layout
 Manufacturing Facility Layouts
 Analyzing Manufacturing Facility Layouts
 Service Facility Layouts
 Wrap-Up: What World-Class Companies Do

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Facility Layout
Facility layout means planning:
 for the location of all machines, utilities, employee
workstations, customer service areas, material
storage areas, aisles, restrooms, lunchrooms,
internal walls, offices, and computer rooms
 for the flow patterns of materials and people
around, into, and within buildings

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Locate All Areas In and Around Buildings
 Equipment
 Work stations
 Material storage
 Rest/break areas
 Utilities
 Eating areas
 Aisles
 Offices

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Characteristics of the Facility Layout Decision
 Location of these various areas impacts the flow
through the system.
 The layout can affect productivity and costs generated
by the system.
 Layout alternatives are limited by
 the amount and type of space required for the
various areas
 the amount and type of space available
 the operations strategy
 . . . more

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Characteristics of the Facility Layout Decision
Layout decisions tend to be:
 Infrequent
 Expensive to implement
 Studied and evaluated extensively
 Long-term commitments