Process Selection and Facility Layout: Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin
Process Selection and Facility Layout: Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin
and Facility
Layout
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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You should be able to:
1. Explain the strategic importance of process selection
2. Describe the influence that process selection has on the
organization
3. Compare the basic processing types
4. Explain the need for management of technology
5. List some reasons for redesign of layouts
6. Describe the basic layout types, and the main advantages and
disadvantages of each
7. Solve simple line-balancing problems
8. Develop simple process layouts
Process
Technological Selection Work
Change Design
Equipment used General purpose General purpose Special purpose Special purpose Varied
Process layouts
Fixed-Position layout
Combination layouts
Raw materials
Station Station Station Station Finished
or customer item
1 2 3 4
N min
t
Cycle time
where
N min theoretica l minimum number of stations
t Sum of task time s
Instructor Slides 6-35
Precedence diagram
A diagram that shows elemental tasks and their precedence
requirements