Design, Development and Evaluation of Plant Layout for Optimized Material Movement

Abstract

This paper is based on a case study about improvement inmaterial movement and plant layout design so as to increase the productivity.Plant layout is often designed to reduce material movement and manufacture or produce components at greater speed with desired accuracy. Small layout changes can affect the production rate drastically. The main objectives of this paper are to study material movement and evaluate its impact on the manufacturing as a whole, also to recommend and implement suggestions based on present layout and material movement to achieve higher efficiency for the whole plant layout.