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The layout and look of facilities (There are four basic layout types…
The layout and look of facilities
How can the layout and look of facilities influence performance?
What makes a good layout?
The flow of transformed resources
The route taken by transformed resources as they progress through an operation or process is governed by how its transforming resources are positioned relative to each other
The interaction between parts of the process
Staff experience
Customer experience
The layout and look of operations and processes is important because it affects their flow characteristics, the interaction between parts of the process and the experience of staff and customers.
Partly the type of layout an operation chooses is influenced by the nature of the process type
which in turn depends on the volume–variety
Partly also the decision will depend on the objectives of the operation
. Cost and flexibility are particularly affected by the layout decision.
There are four basic layout types
fixed-position layout
techniques are rarely used, but some, such as resource location analysis, bring a systematic approach to minimizing the costs and inconvenience of flow at a fixed-position location.
functional layout
the detailed design task is usually (although not always) to minimize the distance travelled by the transformed resources through the operation
cell layout
the detailed design task is to group the products or customer types such that convenient cells can be designed around their needs
line layout.
the detailed design of product layouts includes a number of decisions, such as the cycle time to which the design must conform,
How does the appearance of an operation’s facilities affect its performance?
affects how staff view the operation in which they work, and how customers behave.
The communication between people reduces with the distance between them.