Description
Description:
This course covers strategic facilities planning through detailed facilities layout design. Course components include product flow, space and activity relationships, personnel requirements, line-balancing, material handling, and layout. Traditional and contemporary issues in manufacturing and their impact on facilities design including receiving, shipping, warehousing and integration with manufacturing and supporting operations are explored. Facilities planning models and the process of evaluating, selecting, preparing, presenting, and implementing the facilities plans are covered.
Lab and Tutorials:
The course requires practice and problem solving training during tutorials.
Literature:
• James A. Tompkins, John White, Yavuz A. Bozer, J. M. A. Tanchoco, “Facilities Planning- Wiley
