Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation

Every factory encounters with different layout problems from time to time and the operating efficiency of a manufacturing company is significantly influenced by its plant layout. Lack of consideration to facility planning and work flow design, as the company grows, is common. METALKUB is such a comp...

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Main Author:	Hosseini, Seyedeh Sabereh
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78404/1/SeyedehSaberehHosseiniMFKM20131.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.784042018-08-26T11:52:09Z Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation 2013-01 Hosseini, Seyedeh Sabereh TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Every factory encounters with different layout problems from time to time and the operating efficiency of a manufacturing company is significantly influenced by its plant layout. Lack of consideration to facility planning and work flow design, as the company grows, is common. METALKUB is such a company that produces different types of cards and it is located in Iran. This company is facing with two problems in its production layout of which one of them is high distance between packaging department at first floor and pickup storage in ground floor that have high frequency of flow each day. Workers should walk through a long distance between these two departments which lead to high travelling time. Another problem is crosstraffic between some departments at first floor. The objective of this project is minimizing total traveling time, distance and number of cross-traffic. Systematic Layout Planning is employed to identify work/information flow through operation of products. Using this information, design alternative is created which decreases the travelling time and distance of the production flow. The effectiveness of proposed layout is determined using ARENA simulation academic version. Total travel distance from packaging process until keeping in warehouse is reduced significantly by 8417.5 m to 5023 m, which subsequently reduces time of travel as well. The number of cross-traffic is decreased from 38 to 24. 2013-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78404/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78404/1/SeyedehSaberehHosseiniMFKM20131.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:79509 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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language	English
topic	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
spellingShingle	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Hosseini, Seyedeh Sabereh Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation
description	Every factory encounters with different layout problems from time to time and the operating efficiency of a manufacturing company is significantly influenced by its plant layout. Lack of consideration to facility planning and work flow design, as the company grows, is common. METALKUB is such a company that produces different types of cards and it is located in Iran. This company is facing with two problems in its production layout of which one of them is high distance between packaging department at first floor and pickup storage in ground floor that have high frequency of flow each day. Workers should walk through a long distance between these two departments which lead to high travelling time. Another problem is crosstraffic between some departments at first floor. The objective of this project is minimizing total traveling time, distance and number of cross-traffic. Systematic Layout Planning is employed to identify work/information flow through operation of products. Using this information, design alternative is created which decreases the travelling time and distance of the production flow. The effectiveness of proposed layout is determined using ARENA simulation academic version. Total travel distance from packaging process until keeping in warehouse is reduced significantly by 8417.5 m to 5023 m, which subsequently reduces time of travel as well. The number of cross-traffic is decreased from 38 to 24.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Hosseini, Seyedeh Sabereh
author_facet	Hosseini, Seyedeh Sabereh
author_sort	Hosseini, Seyedeh Sabereh
title	Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation
title_short	Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation
title_full	Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation
title_fullStr	Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation
title_full_unstemmed	Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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publishDate	2013
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78404/1/SeyedehSaberehHosseiniMFKM20131.pdf
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Multi-floor facility layout improvement using systematic layout planning and simulation

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