CIE333 Facility Design Syllabus:
CIE333 Facility Design Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• Explain the basic principles in facilities planning and plant location.
• Interpret the basic principles in facility layout design decisions through proper analysis.
• Illustrate and explain various modern trends while designing a layout.
• Develop knowledge in line balancing concepts to implement improved system.
• Summarize basic principles in designing, measuring and analyzing material flow to improve the efficiency of the system.
UNIT I PLANT LOCATION
Introduction, Factors affecting location decisions, Qualitative models, Quantitative models, Break-Even analysis model, Brown & Gibbs model, Single facility location models, Gravity location models, Mini-Sum model, MiniMax model, Multi facility location models, Covering model, Warehouse location model.
UNIT II FACILITIES LAYOUT DESIGN
Need for layout study, COURSE OBJECTIVES of a good facility layout, Classification of layout, Layout procedure
– Nadler’s ideal system approach – Immer’s basic steps – Apple’s layout procedure – Reed’s layout procedure, Layout planning – Systematic layout planning(SLP) – Information gathering, Flow analysis & Activity analysis, Relationship diagram, Space requirement and availability, Designing the layout.
UNIT III COMPUTERIZED LAYOUT PLANNING
Designing the process layout – CRAFT, ALDEP, CORELAP – Trends in computerized layout, Group technology models – Production flow analysis (PFA) – Rank order clustering (ROC).
UNIT IV DESIGNING PRODUCT LAYOUT
Line balancing – COURSE OBJECTIVES, Line balancing techniques – Largest candidate rule (LCR) – Kilbridge & Wester method (KWM) – Rank Positional Weight method (RPW) – COMSOAL, Mixed model assembly line balancing.
UNIT V MATERIALS HANDLING AND PACKAGING
Scope and definitions of material handling – COURSE OBJECTIVES, Principles of material handling, Unit load concept, Material handling system design, Classification of material handling equipments, Equipment selection & specification, JIT impact on facilities design, Packaging.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Students should be able to
CO1: apply and evaluate appropriate location models for various facility types.
CO2: effectively design and analyze various facility layouts.
CO3: apply and analyze various computerized techniques while designing a layout.
CO4: effectively implement a strategy to level the workload across all the workstations.
CO5: implement smooth and cost effective system in the material handling process.
TEXT BOOK:
1. Tompkins, J.A. and White J A et al., “Facilities planning”, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
REFERENCES:
1. James, Apple, “Material Handling System Design”, Ronald Press, 1980.
2. Krajewski. J and Ritzman, “Operations management – Strategy and Analysis”, Addison –Wesley publishing company, 5th edition, 1999.
3. Pannerselvam.R, “Production and Operations Management”, PHI, 2017
4. Richard Francis. L. and John A. White, “Facilities Layout and location – an analytical approach”, PHI., 2002.