1. FACILITY AND WORK DESIGN
CHAPTER 8
DAVID A. COLLIER AND JAMES R. EVANS

2. Facility Layout
Facility layout refers to the specific arrangement of physical facilities. Facility-layout studies are necessary whenever:
a new facility is constructed,
there is a significant change in demand or throughput volume,
a new good or service is introduced to the customer benefit package, or
different processes, equipment, and/or technology are installed.

3. Exhibit 8.1 Product Layout for Wine Manufacturer

4. Facility Layout Product Layout
Advantages: Lower work-in-process inventories, shorter processing times, less material handling, lower labor skills, and simple planning and control systems.
Disadvantages: A breakdown at one workstation can cause the entire process to shut down; a change in product design or the introduction of new products may require major changes in the layout, limiting flexibility.

5. Facility Layout
A process layout consists of a functional grouping of equipment or activities that do similar work.
Examples: Legal offices, shoe manufacturing, jet engine turbine blades, and hospitals use a process layout.

6. Exhibit 8.2 Process Layout for a Machine Shop

7. Facility Layout Process Layout
Advantages: A lower investment in equipment, the diversity of jobs inherent in a process layout can lead to increased worker satisfaction.
Disadvantages: High movement and transportation costs, more complicated planning and control systems, longer total processing time, higher in-process inventory or waiting time, and higher worker-skill requirements.

8. Facility Layout
In a cellular layout, the design is not according to the functional characteristics of equipment, but rather by self-contained groups of equipment (called cells), needed for producing a particular set of goods or services.
Examples: Legal services, such as labor law, bankruptcy, divorce; medical specialties such as maternity, oncology, surgery.

9. Exhibit 8.3 Cellular Manufacturing Layout
Source: J. T. Black, “Cellular Manufacturing Systems Reduce Set Up time, Make Small-Lot Production Economical,” Industrial Engineering Magazine, Nov Used with permission from the author.

10. Facility Layout Cellular Layout
Advantages: Reduced materials-handling requirements, quicker response to quality problems, more efficient use of floor space, more worker responsibility increasing morale.
Disadvantages: Duplication of equipment among cells, greater worker skills requirements.

11. Facility Layout
A fixed-position layout consolidates the resources necessary to manufacture a good or deliver a service, such as people, materials, and equipment, in one physical location.
Examples: The production of large items such as heavy machine tools, airplanes, buildings, locomotives, and ships. Service-providing examples include major hardware and software installations, sporting events, and concerts.

12. Fixed-Position Layout
Advantages: Work remains stationary, reducing movement.
Disadvantages: High level of planning and control required.

13. Facility Layout in Service Organizations
Service organizations use product, process, cellular, and fixed-position layouts to organize different types of work.
Process Layout—Services that need the ability to provide a wide variety of services to customers with differing requirements usually use a process layout.
Examples: Libraries, hospitals, insurance companies
Product Layout—Service organizations that provide highly standardized services tend to use product layouts.
Examples: Restaurant kitchens

14. Exhibit 8.6 A Typical Manufacturing Workstation Layout

15. Designing Product Layouts
An assembly line is a product layout dedicated to combining the components of a good or service that has been created previously.
Examples: Automobile assembly, Subway sandwich shops, insurance policy processing
Assembly line balancing is a technique to group tasks among workstations so that each workstation has—in the ideal case—the same amount of work.

16. Assembly-Line Balancing
Required information:
The set of tasks to be performed and the time required to perform each task.
2. The precedence relations among the tasks—that is, the sequence in which tasks must be performed.
3. The desired output rate or forecast of demand for the assembly line.

17. Exhibit 8.7 A Three-Task Assembly Line
One workstation: In an eight-hour day, could produce (1 part/1.0 min)(60 minutes per hour)(8 hours per day) = 480 parts/day
Three workstation s (one for each task): The first operator can produce 120 parts per hour, or 960 parts/day. The second could produce 1,600 parts/day. The third operator can produce 2,400 parts/day. Maximum output is 960 parts/day.
Two workstations (A/BC): Since each operator needs 0.5 minute to perform the assigned duties, the line is in perfect balance, and 960 parts per day can be produced.

18. Assembly-Line Balancing
Cycle time is the interval between successive outputs coming off the assembly line.
In the previous example, with one workstation, the cycle time is 1 minute; that is, one completed assembly is produced every minute.
If two workstations are used, the cycle time is 0.5 minute/unit.
If three workstations are used, the cycle time is still 0.5 minute/unit, because task A is the bottleneck, or slowest operation. The line can produce only one assembly every 0.5 minute.

19. Assembly-Line Balancing
Cycle time (CT) is related to the output (R) by the following equation:
CT = A/R [8.2]
A = available time to produce the output.
The output (R) is normally the demand forecast in units, adjusted for on-hand inventory if appropriate, or orders released to the factory.
Both A and R must have the same time units of measure (hour, day, week, month, and so on).

20. Assembly-Line Balancing
Minimum number of workstations required = Sum of task times/Cycle time = t/CT [8.3]
Total Time Available = (Number of work stations)×(Cycle Time) = (N )(CT ) [8.4]
Total Idle Time = (N )(CT ) − t [8.5]
Assembly-line Efficiency = t/(N ×CT ) [8.6]
Balance Delay = 1 − Assembly-line Efficiency [8.7]

21. Assembly-Line Balancing
Line balancing approaches use decision rules, or heuristics, to assign tasks to workstations to attempt to minimize the amount of idle time at workstations, but do not guarantee optimal solutions.
Examples:
Assign the task with the longest task time first to a workstation if the cycle time would not be exceeded.
Assign the shortest task first.

22. Exhibit 8.9 Precedence Network and Workstation Assignment

23. Assembly Line Balance for In-Line Skate
Workstation Tasks Total Time Idle Time
A 1, 2,
B 3, 4, 6, 7,
Total
Using equations [8.4] to [8.6] we may compute the following:
Total Time Available = (Number workstations)(Cycle Time) = (N )(CT ) = (2)(6) = 12 minutes
Total Idle Time = (N )(CT ) − t = (2)(6) = 2.6 minutes
Assembly-line Efficiency =  t/(N ×CT ) = 9.4/(2 × 6) = 78.3%

24. Assembly-Line Balancing
Cycle time (CT) is related to the output (R) by the following equation:
CT = A/R [8.2]
A = available time to produce the output.
The output (R) is normally the demand forecast in units, adjusted for on-hand inventory if appropriate, or orders released to the factory.
Both A and R must have the same time units of measure (hour, day, week, month, and so on).

25. Selected Solved Problems Chapter 8
Facility and Work Design
Collier/Evans OM3

26. Bass Fishing Solved Problem (p. 155)
Assembly line has six workstations. Management wants an output of 300 reels per day, (with a 7.5 hour workday). The sum of the task times is 8 minutes/reel.
What is the cycle time?
CT = A/R
What is the assembly line efficiency?
Efficiency = t/(N ×CT )
What is the total idle time?
Total Idle Time = (N )(CT ) − t

27. Bass Fishing Solved Problem
Assembly line has six workstations. Management wants an output of 300 reels per day, (with a 7.5 hour workday). The sum of the task times is 8 minutes/reel.
What is the cycle time?
CT = A/R = 1.5 min/reel
What is the assembly line efficiency?
Efficiency = t/(N ×CT ) = 88.9%
What is the total idle time?
Total Idle Time = (N )(CT ) − t = 1 min/reel

28. Assembly-Line Balancing
Minimum number of workstations required = Sum of task times/Cycle time = t/CT [8.3]
Total Time Available = (Number of work stations)×(Cycle Time) = (N )(CT ) [8.4]
Total Idle Time = (N )(CT ) − t [8.5]
Assembly-line Efficiency = t/(N ×CT ) [8.6]
Balance Delay = 1 − Assembly-line Efficiency [8.7]

29. Exhibit 8.9 Precedence Network and Workstation Assignment
Given: CT = 6.0 min/unit (see pages )
Workstation Tasks Total Time Idle Time A B
Total

30. Exhibit 8.9 Precedence Network and Workstation Assignment
Workstation Tasks Total Time Idle Time
A 1, 2,
B 3, 4, 6, 7,
Total

31. Assembly Line Balance for In-Line Skate
Workstation Tasks Total Time Idle Time
A 1, 2,
B 3, 4, 6, 7,
Total
Using equations [8.4] to [8.6] we may compute the following:
Total Time Available = (Number workstations)(Cycle Time) = (N )(CT ) =
Total Idle Time = (N )(CT ) − t =
Assembly-line Efficiency =  t/(N ×CT ) =

32. Assembly Line Balance for In-Line Skate
Workstation Tasks Total Time Idle Time
A 1, 2,
B 3, 4, 6, 7,
Total
Using equations [8.4] to [8.6] we may compute the following:
Total Time Available = (Number workstations)(Cycle Time) = (N )(CT ) = (2)(6) = 12 minutes
Total Idle Time = (N )(CT ) − t = (2)(6) = 2.6 minutes
Assembly-line Efficiency =  t/(N ×CT ) = 9.4/(2 × 6) = 78.3%