Chapter 16. Facility Layout Decision
After selecting a facility's location, the next major decision is to design the best physical layout for the facility. The available space needs to be assessed with workstations, equipment, storage, and other amenities need to be arranged. The goal is to create the most efficient workflow produce necessary to produce its goods or services at the highest level of quality with the lowest possible cost.
Layout planning is organizationally important not only for efficient operations, but other functions are impacted as well such as marketing which is affected by layout when clients come to the site, human resources as layout impacts people and finance as layout changes can be costly endeavors.
The layout decision ...
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