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Facility Layout Planning: A Review

Rohit Monga , Varinder Khurana

Plant layout planning includes decisions regarding the physical allocation of the economic activity centers in a facility. An economic activity center is any entity occupying space. The objective of plant layout planning is a more effective work flow at the facility, allowing workers and equipment being more productive. Facilities layout is a systematic and functional arrangement of different departments, machines, equipments and services in a manufacturing industry. It is essential to have a well developed plant layout for all the available resources in an optimum manner and get the maximum out of the capacity of the facilities. Facility layout techniques apply to the case where several physical means have to be located in a certain area, either industrial processes or services. The objective of the paper is not only Plant layout but re-layout also. To carry out an appropriate plant layout, it’s important to take into account the business strategic and tactical objectives.