Facility Layout – Industrial Engineering

Baker Ford has recently purchased a warehouse type structure (265 ft. x 150 ft.) with modular walls. Baker would like to have 15 departments with areas shown below. You are required to make a plan of the best layout for this new facility using Muther’s SLP.

Develop an Activity Relationship Diagram, Space Relationship Diagram, and Block Layout. Label your Block Layout with department name and area in square feet. The dimensions do not have to be exact, but should be roughly to scale, i.e., a 1000 ft² department should be roughly twice the size of a 2000 ft² department. Also, the general shape of departments should be reasonable length and width rectangles.

Evaluate and compare any layout using adjacency scores and layout efficiency rating (slides 27 and 28).