Process Selection And Facility Layouts Report

Process Selection and
Facility Layout
Korin Castro
Bernadette Cepres
Sam Maylao
Felice Tatlonghari
Carla Gay-ya

Process Selection
 The ways organizations choose to produce or provide their goods and services.
 It involves choice of technology, type of processing, and so on.
 It influences
– Capacity planning
– Layout of facilities
– Equipment
– Design of work systems

Forecastin g Capacity
Planning

Product & service Design
Technologic
al
Change

Facilities and Equipment
Layout

Process
Selection

Work
Design

Capacity is significantly impacted by process selection and facility layout.

Process Types

• Project: A non-repetitive set of activities directed

toward a unique goal within a limited time frame
– Unique

• Job shop: it use when a low volume of high-variety

goods or services will be needed.
– Small scale

• Batch: is used when a moderate volume of goods

or services is desired and it can be handle a moderate variety in products and services.
– Low or Moderate volume

Process Types
 Repetitive: provides one or a few highly

standardized products or services
◦ High volumes of standardized goods or services

 Continuous: produces highly uniform products

or continuous services, often performed by machines ◦ Very high volumes of non-discrete goods

Automation
 Automation: Machinery that has sensing and

control devices that enables it to operate automatically  Standardized goods and services
 Examples:
◦ Goods: Automobile factories, semiconductors
◦ Services: Package sorting, e-mail, on-line

banking

Automation Types
 Fixed automation
 Specialized equipment for a fixed sequence of

operations.
 Programmable automation
 It involves the use of high-cost, general purpose

equipment controlled by a computer program that provides both the sequence of operations and specific details about each operation.
 Flexible automation
 It uses equipment that is more customized than that

the programmable automation.

FACILITIES LAYOUT

Facilities