Parvati techno cast (Guj) pvt. ltd. (688, GIDC estate Makarpura, Vadodara, 390010) is the company which manufacture different mechanical components (100gm to 200kg weight) by using casting. Also manufacturing engineering services include machining of components which are produced by casting. At present situation company is having less productivity due to ineffective utilization of plant layout,...

Plant layout design is related to the location of facilities (e.g. machines, departments) in a plant. They are known to greatly impact the system performance. Numerous research works related to facility layout have been published. A few literature reviews exist, but they are not recent or are restricted to certain specific aspects of these layout design. The literature analysis given here is re...

Facility layout design is a strategic issue and has a significant and lasting impact on the efficiency of a manufacturing system. An ideal facility layout provides the optimum relationship among output, floor area and manufacturing process. Traditionally, the facility layout problem is solved using many methods like heuristics, Mathematical programming, Knowledge based approaches etc. This pape...

— Facilities layout is a systematic and functional arrangement of different departments, machines, equipments and services in a manufacturing establishment. It is vitally important to have a well developed plant layout for all the available resources in an optimum manner and get the maximum out of the capacity of the facilities. The problem is of particular importance for Small and Medium Enter...

in today’s dynamic market, organizations must be adaptive to market fluctuations. in addition, studies show that material-handling cost makes up between 20 and 50 percent of the total operating cost. therefore, this paper considers the problem of arranging and rearranging, when there are changes in product mix and demand, manufacturing facilities such that the sum of material handling and rearr...

In this paper, we present a formulation of the plant layout problem where the objective is to minimize work-in-process. We show that the choice of layout has a direct impact on work-inprocess accumulation, manufacturing lead time, achievable throughput rates, and required material handling capacity. More importantly, we show that layouts generated using a queueing-based model can be very differ...

A mathematical formulation for the simultaneous design and layout of batch process facilities is proposed. The model determines simultaneously the optimal plant topology (i.e. the choice of the plant equipment and the associated connections), the layout (i.e. the arrangement of processing equipment storage vessels and their interconnecting pipe-work over a two-dimensional space) and the optimal...