Facility planning determines how a company's fixed assets support its objectives. It is an ongoing process that includes determining space needs, generating alternative facility designs, evaluating options, selecting a plan, implementing it, and adapting it over time. The steps are: 1) define objectives, 2) specify activities, 3) map interrelationships, 4) determine space needs, 5) generate alternatives, 6) evaluate alternatives, 7) select a plan, 8) implement, 9) maintain and adapt, and 10) redefine objectives if needed. Facility planning increases productivity and reduces costs by streamlining activities and incorporating safety and environmental measures.

1. Chapter 2: Textile plant design
Contents
2.1. Facility Planning
2.2. Importance of Facility Planning
2.3. Facilities Planning Process Steps
2.4. Textile plant/Facility Design
Spinning mill
Weaving mill
Processing mill
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2. Lesson Objectives
• To define facility planning
• To understand hierarchy of facility planning
• To understand the importance of facility planning
• To understand the process steps in facility planning
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3. Facility plan
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4. 2.1. FACILITY PLANNING
What is Facility ? & Planning?
►A facility is an entity(object) that facilitates the
performance of any job.
►Example: Machine tool, work center, manufacturing cell,
warehouse etc.
Planning - is preparing a sequence of action steps to achieve
some specific goal.
Planning - is one of the most important project
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5. What is Facility Planning?
Facility Planning determines how an activity’s tangible fixed
assets best support achieving the activity’s objectives.
Examples:
a. In an airport, the objective is to support the passenger
airplane interface.
b. In a hospital, the objective is to provide medical care to
patients.
c. In manufacturing, the objective is to support
production. (manufacturing facility Planning) 5

6. Facilities in an Airport
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7. Facilities in a Hospital
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8. Facilities in a Factory
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9. Hierarchy of Facility Planning
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Facility
Planning
Facility
Location
Facility Design
Structural
Design
Layout Design
Handling
System Design

10. Facility location: is the placement of a facility with
respect to customers, suppliers, and other
facilities with which it interfaces.
Structure (facility systems) Design: consists of the
building and services.
e.g., gas, water system, lighting system, air conditioning
system,, sewage system, safety system, etc.
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11. Layout Design: Consists of all equipment, machinery,
and furnishings within the structure.
Handling System Design: consists of the mechanism by
which all interactions required by the layout are
satisfied (e.g., materials, personnel, information,
and equipment handling systems).
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12. BDTSC spinning section layout
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13. 2.2. Importance of Facility Planning
1) Facility planning must be a continuing activity to
be competitive and keep developments in its field.
• Economic considerations of existing systems,
personnel and equipment
• New machines and processes
• Rapid changes in production techniques in the
present and future
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14. 2) Facility planning can increase plant productivity
and reduce costs by reducing or eliminating all
activities that are unnecessary and wasteful.
3) By incorporating vital health and safety measures
the employer may avoid unsafe conditions and
losses in both money and manpower resulting
from industrial accidents. 14
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15. 4) Energy conservation incorporating new methods
of energy to reduce the cost of energy
5) Other factors that requires investment in new
facilities
Example
• Fire protection, Security, Disability act
• Community rules and regulations regarding noise,
air pollution, liquid and solid waste disposal.
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16. 2.3. Facility Planning Process Steps
1) Define or redefine the objective of the facility
2) Specify the primary and support activities to be
performed in accomplishing the objective
3) Determine the interrelationships among all activities
4) Determine the space requirement for all activities
5) Generate alternative facility plans
6) Evaluate alternative facility plans
7) Select a facilities plan
8) Implement the facilities plan
9) Maintain and adapt the facility plans
10) Redefine the objective of the facilities
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17. 1) Define or redefine the objective of the facility
 Planning for new facility or
 Improvement of existing facility
• Products to be produced or services to be
provided must be specified quantitatively.
• Volumes or levels of activities are to be identified
when possible.
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18. 2) Specify the primary and support activities to
be performed in accomplishing the objective
• Primary – directly involved in manufacturing
• Support - allow primary operations to function
properly without interruptions.
Eg. Maintenance function is a support activity for
manufacturing.
• Primary and support activities to be performed
should be specified in terms of operations,
equipment, personnel and material flow involved.
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19. 3) Determine the interrelationships among all activities
• Define both quantitatively and qualitatively how
activities interact and support one another with in
the boundaries of the facility.
4) Determine the space requirement for all activities
• All equipment, material, and personnel
requirements must be considered while
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20. 5) Generate alternative facility plans
• Alternative facility plans will include both alternative
facility locations and alternative facility designs.
• Alternative facility designs will include alternative
layout design, structural designs and material
handling system designs.
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21. 6) Evaluate alternative facility plans
• Determine the factors, set an accepted criteria and
rank the plans.
7) Select a facility plans
• Select the most acceptable in satisfying the goals
and objectives of the organizations.
• Most often cost is not the only major
considerations when evaluating a facility plans.
• Use the information generated in step 6.
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22. 8) Implement the facility plans
• After selection, considerable amount of planning
must precede before the actual construction of
the facility.
• Supervising installation of layout, getting ready
to start up, actual starting up, running and
debugging are all part of implementation phase
of facility planning.
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23. 9) Maintain and adapt facilities plans
• When new requirements are placed on the facility,
the facility plan must be modified accordingly.
• Changes in product design, new machines,
material handling equipments or flow patterns
require an updated facility plan.
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24. 10) Redefine the objective of the facility
• In case of potential modifications, expansion and
so on for existing facilities, all recognized changes
must be considered and the objective of the
facility should be redefined in quantifiable terms.
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25. End !
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