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Facilities Planning and Plant Layout

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    By the end of the course the students will be able to: - Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of facilities layout, materials handling systems, and equipment. - Identify the different types of layouts and the data and information required in the field. - formulate the flow of materials and the distance traveled between locations. - Solve and analyze the layout problem. - Identify the appropriate types of handling equipment to use. - Analyze the site data and derive the solution for selecting the best site location.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Climate Action

Requirements

MDP435s

Description

  • English Description

    Introduction to production systems, Types and characteristics of production systems, Types of layouts, Advantages and disadvantages of each, Layout objectives, Types of layout data, Quantitative and qualitative data, Construction of flow matrix, Construction of activity relationship chart, Space determination, Number of machines and manpower, Quantitative and qualitative techniques for construction of initial layout, improvement layout techniques, Computerized layout techniques, Evaluation of solutions and selection of the optimum, Single facility location problem, Introduction to materials handling equipment and systems.
  • Arabic Description

    Introduction to production systems, Types and characteristics of production systems, Types of layouts, Advantages and disadvantages of each, Layout objectives, Types of layout data, Quantitative and qualitative data, Construction of flow matrix, Construction of activity relationship chart, Space determination, Number of machines and manpower, Quantitative and qualitative techniques for construction of initial layout, improvement layout techniques, Computerized layout techniques, Evaluation of solutions and selection of the optimum, Single facility location problem, Introduction to materials handling equipment and systems.
  • Department
    Design and Production Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Student Activities (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 35% ) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • Course notes
  • - Lecturer’s slides (more than 400 slides)
  • Essential books (textbooks)
  • - Tompkins, J.A, et al, Facilities Planning, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, N.Y. 2002. 2012 edition.
  • Recommended books
  • - Francis, R.L. McGinnis, L.F. and White J.A., Facilities Layout and Location: An Analytical Approach, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliff, NJ, 1992.
  • Periodicals, Web sites, … etc.
  • - www.iie.org Management Science.
  • ˗International J. Prod. Res.
  • -AIIE