1. Introduction to Facilities Design
Chapter 1
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2. FACILITIES
Facilities can be broadly defined as buildings where people, material, and machines come together for a stated purpose – typically to make a tangible product or provide a service.
The facility must be properly managed to achieve its stated purpose while satisfying several objectives.
Such objectives include producing a product or producing a service
• at lower cost,
• at higher quality,
• or using the least amount of resources.
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3. Chronological list of facilities planning and design activities
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4. Levels of decisions Strategic or Design or Long-term
Planning or Intermediate
Operational or short-term
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5. Importance of Facilities Planning & Design
Manufacturing and Service companies spend a significant amount of time and money to design or redesign their facilities.
This is an extremely important issue and must be addressed before products are produced or services are rendered.
A poor facility design can be costly and may result in:
• poor quality products,
• low employee morale,
• customer dissatisfaction.
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6. Disciplines involved in Facilities Planning (FP)
Facilities Planning (FP) has been very popular. It is a complex and a broad subject.
Within the engineering profession:
• civil engineers,
• electrical engineers,
• industrial engineers,
• mechanical engineers.
• architects,
• consultants,
• general contractors,
• managers,
• real estate brokers, and
• urban planners are involved in FP.
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7. Variety of Facility Planning (FP) Tools
Facility Planning (FP) tools vary from checklists, cookbook type approaches to highly sophisticated mathematical modeling approaches.
In this course, a practical approach to facilities planning will be employed taking advantage of empirical and analytical approaches using both traditional and contemporary concepts.
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8. Applications of Facilities Planning (FP)
Facilities Planning (FP) can be applied to planning of:
• a new hospital,
• an assembly department,
• an existing warehouse,
• the baggage department in an airport,
• department building of ME in YTU,
• a production plant,
• a retail store,
• a dormitory,
• a bank,
• an office,
• a cinema,
• a parking lot,
• or any portion of these activities etc…
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9. Applications of Facilities Planning (FP)
Facilities Planning (FP) determines how activities tangible fixed assets best support achieving the activity’s objectives.
what is the objective of the facility?
how the facility achieves that objective?
In the case of a manufacturing firm:
Facilities Planning (FP) involves the determination of how the manufacturing facility best supports production.
In the case of an airport:
Facilities Planning (FP) involves determining how the airport facility is to support the passenger-airplane interface.
In the case of a hospital:
Facilities Planning (FP) for a hospital determines how the hospital facility supports providing medical care to patients.
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10. Facilities Planner considers the facility as a dynamic entity.
Therefore continuous
improvement is an integral element of FP cycle.

11. Applications of Facilities Planning (FP)
It is important to recognize that we do not use the term facilities planning as a synonym for such related terms as facilities location, facilities design, facilities layout, or plant layout.
It is convenient to divide a facility into its location and design components.
Facilities Planning ≠ Facility Location
Facilities Design
Facilities Layout
Plant Layout
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12. Facilities Planning Hierarchy
Facility Location
Structural Design
Facility Planning
Facility Design
Layout Design
Handling System Design
Location: is the placement of a facility with respect to customers, suppliers, and other facilities with which it interfaces.
Structure: consists of the building and services (e.g., gas, water, power, heat, light, air, sewage).
Layout: consists of all equipment, machinery, and furnishings within the structure. The production areas, related support areas, personnel areas.
Handling System:
consists of the mechanism by which all interactions required by the layout are satisfied (e.g., materials, personnel, information, and equipment handling systems).
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13. Constraints in developing facilities layout
Some pairs of departments must be adjacent
Some pairs of departments must not be adjacent
Some departments only in specific locations
Existing building constraints
OSHA regulations, fire codes, etc.
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14. Service system layout – Dentist’s office
Staff Lounge
Dentist’s Room
Oral Hygienist’s Room
X-Ray Room
Records Room
Orthodontist’s Room
Men’s Rest Room
Women’s Rest Room
Waiting Area
Reception
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15. Service system layout – Grocery store
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16. Office structures Closed structure Semiclosed structure Open structure
Semiopen structure
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17. Closed structure
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18. Semiclosed structure
Teller
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19. Open structure
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20. Semiopen structure
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21. Assembly facility layout
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22. Warehouse layout
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23. Nontraditional layout
Keyboard layout
IC board layout
Computer disk storage layout
Airport gate layout
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24. Facilities Planning for specific types of facilities:
a) manufacturing plant
b) Office
c) Hospital
d) Emergency room
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25. Significance of Facilities Planning
To understand the significance of Facilities Planning (FP) consider the following questions:
• What impact does facilities planning have on handling and maintenance cost?
• What impact does facilities planning have on employee morale, and how does employee morale impact operating costs?
• In what do organizations invest the majority of their capital, and how convertible is their capital once invested?
• What impact does facilities planning have on the management of a facility?
• What impact does facilities planning have on facility’s capability to adapt to change and satisfy future requirements?
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26. Objectives of Facilities Planning
Objectives of FP is to plan a facility that achieves both facilities location and design objectives.
Objectives of Industrial Facility Location:
Objective of Industrial Facility Location is to determine the location which, in consideration of all factors affecting deliver- to-customers cost of the products to be manufactured, will be minimized.
Some Typical Facilities Design Objectives are to:
1. Support the organization’s vision through improved material handling, material control, and good housekeeping.
2. Effectively utilize people, equipment, space and energy.
3. Minimize capital investment.
4. Be adaptable and promote ease of maintenance.
5. Provide for employee safety and job satisfaction.
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27. Facilities Planning Process
Although facility is planned only once, it is frequently re-planned to synchronize the facility and its constantly changing objectives.
Planning and Re-planning are linked by the continuous improvement FP cycle.
FP is not an exact science, but it can be approached using an organized and systematic approach.
Traditionally, the ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS (EDP) can be applied (similar to problem solving approach).
It consists of following 6 steps:
• Define the problem,
• Analyze the problem,
• Generate alternative designs,
• Evaluate the alternatives,
• Select the preferred design,
• Implement the design
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28. Applying the engineering design process to facilities planning results in the following process:
1. Define (or redefine) the objective of the facility, 2. Specify the primary and support activities to be performed in accomplishing the objective. Requirements in terms of: • Operations, • Equipment, • Personnel, • Material flows should be satisfied. 3. Determine the interrelationships among all activities, 4. Determine the space requirements for all activities, 5. Generate alternative facilities plans, 6. Evaluate alternative facilities plans (alternative locations and alternative designs), 7. Select a facilities plan, 8. Implement the facilities plan, 9. Maintain and adapt the facilities plan, 10. Redefine the objective of the facility.
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29. An Organization’s Model of Success
Experience has shown that in order for the facilities plan to be successful, not only a clear understanding of the (1)vision, but also the (2)mission, (3)the requirement of success, (4)the guiding principles, and (5) the evidence of success are needed.
Five elements that form an organization’s model of success:
• Vision: a description of where you are headed.
• Mission: how to accomplish the vision.
• Requirements of success: the science of your business.
• Guiding principles: the values to be used, while pursuing the vision.
• Evidence of success: measurable results that will demonstrate when an organization is moving towards their vision.
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30. Questions
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