Plant Layout and DesignTextbook designed for undergraduate courses in industrial engineering and factory organization - covers location of industry, production planning, equipment, storage space, facilities for the provision of meals and health services, work study, etc., and includes ergonomics, operational research and mathematical programming. References, and selected bibliography at the end of each chapter. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO PLANT DESIGN | 3 |
SALES PLANNING FOR PLANT Design | 21 |
PLANT LOCATION | 33 |
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A. K. Erlang aisles alternative analysis annual arrangement arrivals assembly automatic average number block plan building capacity capital recovery factor Chapter column Company computation considered conveyor cost matrix Courtesy cranes determine developed distribution Electric elements employees engineering economy evaluation example existing machines exponential factor feet Figure flow hand truck indicates Industrial Engineering installation interest investment involved labor Lathe layout engineer level curves line balancing linear programming load lunch wagons maintenance manufacturing materials handling equipment measure of effectiveness ment method minimum models move number of customers operations Operations Research optimum solution over-all pallets personnel plant design Poisson distribution precedence graph procedure production centers production volume queuing theory routes selected sequence service facility shown simplex method situation space requirements standard station storage Table technique templates tion transportation travel chart Turret Lathe utilized waiting work-in-process