CHAPTER-5
PLANT LAYOUT
Plant layout means the disposition of the various facilities (equipment, material, manpower etc.)
and services of the plant within the area of site located.
Objectives
1. Material handling and transportation is minimized and effectively controlled.
2. Bottlenecks and points of congestions are eliminated (by line balancing) so that the raw material and
semi-finished goods move fast from one workstation to other.
3. Workstations are designed suitable and properly.
4. Suitable spaces are allocated to production centers and service centers.
5. The movements made by the workers minimized.
Layout can be classified into the following four categories:
a. process layout
b. product layout
c. Group layout(combination layout)
d. Fixed position layout
a. process layout:
• It is also known as functional layout.
• Here similar machines and services located together Ex. All the lathe machines
will be at one place and all milling machines at another place and so on.
• This type of layout generally employed for industries engaged in job-shop
production and non-repetitive kind of production.
• When there variety of products manufactured at low volume we prefer this type of
layout.
• Ex. furniture manufacturer company, restaurant etc.
