Plant Location and

Layout
Concept
Factors Governing Plant Location
1. Nearness to Raw Materials
2. Transport Facilities
3. Nearness to Markets
4. Availability of Labour
5. Availability of Fuel and Power
6. Availability of Water

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7. Climatic Conditions
8. Financial and Other Aids
9. Land
10. Community Attitude
11. Presence of related industries
12. Existence of Facilities such as hospitals,
schools, post offices, clubs
13. Housing Facilities
14. Security

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Locational Economics
1. Land
2. Building/ Rent
3. Equipment and Machinery
4. Labour
5. Water, power and fuel
5. Freight Incoming Outgoing
6. Raw Material
7. Taxes

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Rural v/s Urban Plant

Advantages

Disadvantages

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Plant Layout
Introduction
Objectives of Good Plant Layout
Principles of Plant Layout
1. Integration
2. Minimum movements and Material Handling
3. Smooth and Continuous Flow
4. Cubic Space Utilization
5. Safe and Improved Environments
6. Flexibility

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Process Layout
Advantages
Disadvantages

Product Layout
Advantages
Disadvantages

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Combination Layout

Fixed Position Layout
Advantages
Disadvantages

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Flow pattern
1. Line flow
2. L type flow
3. Circular flow
4. U type flow
5. S or inverted S
6. Combination of U and line flow pattern



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7. Combination of line flow and S type pattern
8. Combination of line flow and circular type
9. Processing Upwards
10. Retraction type
11. Inclined flow






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Work Station Design
1. Space Requirement
2. Other Factors

Storage Space Requirements

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Plant Layout Procedure
1. Accumulation of Basic Data
2. Analyse and Coordinate Basic Data
3. Decide Machinery and Equipment Required
4. Select the Material Handling System
5. Sketch Plan of the plot
6. Determine a general Flow Pattern
7. Design individual Work Station

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8. Assemble the individual work station layout
9. Calculate the storage space required
10. Make the flow diagram
11. Plan and Locate service areas
12. Make master layout
13. Check final layout
14. Get official approval of final layout
15. Install the approved layout

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Factory Building
Introduction A good factory building
Considerations in building design
1. Nature of Manufacturing Processes
2. Flexibility
3. Expandability
4. Service Facilities
5. Employee Facilities

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6. Lighting Advantages Characteristics
Nature
7. Heating
8. Ventilating
9. Airconditioning
10. Other considerations Appearance, Strength,
Noise

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Types of Factory Building
1. Single storey buildings Advantages -
Disadvantages
2. High bay and monitor types
3. Multistorey buildings Advantages -
Disadvantages
4. Buildings of special types






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Types of building construction
1. Wood frame construction
2. Brick construction
3. Slow burning construction
4. Steel frame construction
5. Reinforced concrete construction
6. Prescast Concrete Construction



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Building Materials
For Floors
For Walls
For Roofs



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References:
Industrial Engineering and Management Dr. O.
P. Khanna Dhanpat Rai Publications

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