BME 1(Operations Management & TQM)
PLANT LAYOUT AND MATERIAL HANDLING
Activity 8.1- Questions
Instruction: Answer the questions below. Make your answer simple, clear and relevant. Submit
your answer through google class. You may encode your answer or write it in a white
pad/coupon.
1. Explain briefly the major objective of a plant layout study.
2. How does plant layout influence the selection of production equipment?
3. What should be the relationship of plant services, such as receiving, storage, and
shipping into the production departments in a layout?
4. Is the location of employee service facilities important to a layout?
5. How would you evaluate a layout proposal? What criteria would you use?
6. What does plant layout involve?
7. Illustrate the three patterns of layout.
8. Why a process layout is considered flexible?
9. What is the outstanding characteristic of an assembly line layout?
10. Construct a layout chart for a selected manufacturing firm.
11. Make a plant layout checklist applicable to question no.10
12. To what degree does materials handling affect the layout for production?
13. What are the three basic classes of material handling equipment?
14. Prepare a criteria for selection of material handling equipment.
