FACILITY LAYOUT IMPROVEMENT FOR ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY: AN APPLICATION OF SYSTEMATIC PLANT LAYOUT

One of the major prerequisites for effective operations of a manufacturing plant depends on the sufficiency of a good facility layout. A wellplanned facility layout enables better utilization of resources and thereby better production control. The purpose of this research was to analyse the effectiveness of the layout improvement through systematic plant layout planning (SLP) method. Factors like relationship diagram/affinity chart, material flow, space requirements etc. were studied to propose a modified layout according to the SLP method.