Facility Planning and Design

FACILITIES PLANNING

INTRODUCTION

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Facilities Planning
Facilities Planning deals with the design of industrial plants. It start with analysis of the product and end up with the plan of the factory to manufacture the proposed product. The outcome of this process is a set of drawings and procedures.
Although in this lecture we talk about manufacturing plants, all ideas, principles, and procedures are similarly applied to service industry.
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Facilities Planning Facilities Design Handling System Design

Facilities Location Structural Design

Layout Design

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Facilities design engineer have to

Size

Design

Location Orientation

of all physical sub-systems of the plant.

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Plant Location
Important factors in plant location
Location of raw material: Raw material oriented factories; weight of input >>> weight of output.
Iron ore
Steel plant

Iron & Steel

Coal Alumina Coal Electricity
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Aluminum plant

Aluminum

Important factors in plant location …(cont)
Location of market: Market oriented plants; Space required for output >>> space required for input. i.e. Car manufacturing, Appliances Climate; nuclear plants Availability of labor, electricity, water,……
Aluminum plant is strongly dependent to the electricity Blast furnace requires a high flow of water

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Important factors in plant location …(cont)

Cost of living health care education construction costs.

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Plant Orientation
OR

Important factors in defining the appropriate orientation