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1. A Presentation
by
JYYOTHEES MV
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT

2. OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

3. LOCATION OF FACILITIES
This initial planning stage involves selecting the
region or general area in which then plant or
facility should be located.

4. Location decision
• Choice of location
• Alternate location options
• Factors relevant to the facility being planned
• Screening location planning
• Tow types
• Location rating analysis
• Cost benefit analysis
• Best location choice

5. Layout of facilities
• Layout refers to the arrangement of facilities a
plant layout refers to the arrangement of
machinery, equipment and other industrial
facilities.

6. Principles of plant layout
• Principles of over all integrator
• principles of minimum disuse
• principles of cubic space
• Principles of satisfaction and safety
• Principles of flexibility
• Principles of flow

7. Types of plant layout
• Process layout
• Group layout
• Fixed position layout
• product layout

8. Process layout
• Process layout is also know has functional
layout this are most common for small to
minimum value manufactures

9. Product layout
• In a product layout machines are organized to
conform to the sequence of operations
required to produce the product.

10. Group layout
• With increased emphasis on automated
factored and flexible manufacturing systems
group technology layouts have received
considerable attention in recent years.

11. Fixed layout
• Some products are to big to be move so the
product reminded fixed and the layout is
based on this product size the shape.

12. Benefits of Group technology
• Reduced flow times
• Process time saves
• Inventory reduction
• Job enlargement
• Quality improvement

13. Limitation of group Technology
• High cost
• Not suitable for large variety of products
• No suits all applications

14. Flexible manufacturing
• An flexible manufacturing is a process
technology that can produce a moderate
variety of products in modest volumes and
can do so quickly and with high quality.