This useful guide and reference explores the techniques and procedures for developing an efficient facility layout, and introduces some of the state-of-the-art tools involved, such as computer simulation. A “how-to,” systematic, and methodical approach leads the reader through the collection, analysis and development of information to produce a quality functional plant layout. Chapter topics include time study, process design, flow analysis techniques, activity relationship analysis, area allocation, and selling the layout. For experienced facilities planners, and individuals who possess the required skills to be one, who want to directly correlate the efficiency of a layout and material handling systems with the efficiency, productivity, and profitability of any given enterprise.
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Within this project-oriented book the reader will find descriptions of techniques and procedures of plant layout and material handling. This practical "how-to" edition will lead the reader through the collection, analysis and development of information to produce a quality plant layout. The book is written at a high school algebra level and assumes some experience with computer-aided design (CAD) programs.
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This useful guide and reference explores the techniques and procedures for developing an efficient facility layout, and introduces some of the state-of-the-art tools involved, such as computer simulation. A “how-to,” systematic, and methodical approach leads the reader through the collection, analysis and development of information to produce a quality functional plant layout. Chapter topics include time study, process design, flow analysis techniques, activity relationship analysis, area allocation, and selling the layout. For experienced facilities planners, and individuals who possess the required skills to be one, who want to directly correlate the efficiency of a layout and material handling systems with the efficiency, productivity, and profitability of any given enterprise.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A hands-on learning class,
This review is from: Plant Layout and Material Handling (Hardcover)
The book can be thought of as a project development using a hands-on approach. Step by step, the author go through the main issues in a project like this. By using a practical approach, the stuff is easy to be read and well organized. No previous knowledge on the topic is required before reading. The four stars come from the lack of a deeper treatment in some areas which are necessary for kicking off such a facility.
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Excellent student text for Ind.Eng. practical, experienced.,
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This review is from: Plant Layout and Material Handling (Hardcover)
Excellent text, obviously written by an author who has used the techniques explained. Good practical approach. Covers 90% of our MH and Plant layout course for Industrial Engineers. Some gaps in the methods, eg.flow process diagrams is not adequate, so we need to supplement. Brief -170pp approx. Monash Univ. Australia.
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This review is from: Manufacturing Facilities Design and Material Handling (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
If you can't formulate a simple linear programming problem, then this book was made for you! No advance IE/OR quantitative methodologies required. However, I found this book covers important material that were left out from other books such as Tompkins' Facility Planning. Overall, I think that this book is a good complement for other books.
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Manufacturing facilities design and material handling affect the productivity and profitability of a company more than almost any other major corporate decision. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chop shear, activity relationship diagram, aisle feet, manufacturing facilities designer, closeness codes, setting time standards, assembly line balance, time study technician, time study form, material handling project, activity relationship chart, allocation diagram, fatigue allowance, shop containers, cube utilization, strip shear, buyout parts, narrow aisle trucks, delay allowances, takt time, stopwatch time study, pallet racks, indented bill, part number order, operations chart Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fred Meyers, Auxiliary Services Requirement, Courtesy of Air Technical Industries, Courtesy of Yale Materials Handling Corp, Electric Power Co-Op, Courtesy of Engineering Animation, Courtesy of Engineering Annomation, Center Drive, Courtesy of Crown Equipment Corp New!
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Manufacturing facilities design and material handling affect the productivity and profitability of a company more than almost any other major corporate decision. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chop shear, activity relationship diagram, aisle feet, manufacturing facilities designer, closeness codes, setting time standards, assembly line balance, time study technician, time study form, material handling project, activity relationship chart, allocation diagram, fatigue allowance, shop containers, cube utilization, strip shear, buyout parts, narrow aisle trucks, delay allowances, takt time, stopwatch time study, pallet racks, indented bill, part number order, operations chart Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fred Meyers, Auxiliary Services Requirement, Courtesy of Air Technical Industries, Courtesy of Yale Materials Handling Corp, Electric Power Co-Op, Courtesy of Engineering Animation, Courtesy of Engineering Annomation, Center Drive, Courtesy of Crown Equipment Corp New!
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- Why Not? by Shari Low on page 73
- Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated by James P. Womack on page 3
- Food Plant Engineering Systems by Theunis Christoffel Robberts in Back Matter
- Simulation Using Promodel (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management Science) by Charles Harrell on page 319
- Standards for Engineering Design and Manufacturing (Dekker Mechanical Engineering) by Wasim Ahmed Khan on page 30
- Simulation Using Promodel w/ CD-Rom by Charles R. Harrell on page 356
- Simulation Using ProModel by Charles R. Harrell on page 356
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