A Case Study on Improvement of Plant Layout for Effective Production

By : P. Sivasankaran , P. Sridhar , A. Rajesh , M. Ugendiran

Page No: 219-235

Abstract
The fundamental issue with the design is the arrangement of the departments according to the material flow between them. The design criterion that is regularly used in most layout design processes does not capture the effect of layout setup on operational quality measurements such as cycle time, processing department queue times, performance and throughput rate. In a manufacturing industry, plant layout is a systematic and functional arrangement of various departments, machines, equipments and services. It is vital to have a well-developed plant layout in an optimal way for all available resources and to obtain the facility’s highest production ability. Production effectiveness relies on how well the different machines and services are produced. This research paper aims at studying and improving the current layout of the plant, and is analyzed and designed using string diagrams. An attempt is made to use systematic layout planning (SLP) to measure the current and proposed factory layout and to calculate the efficiency of the current and the proposed layout of the plant.

Authors :
P. Sivasankaran : Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Pondicherry-605 017.
P. Sridhar : B.Tech (Final Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Pondicherry-605 017.
A. Rajesh : B.Tech (Final Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Pondicherry-605 017.
M. Ugendiran : B.Tech (Final Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Pondicherry-605 017.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/PROD.2020.61.02.9