Facilities Design

Catalog description

This course covers contemporary approaches for designing new facilities and improving existing facilities in manufacturing, service, and warehouse organizations. The course focuses on facility layout planning methods as well as the inter-relationships between physical layouts of (facilities, departments, or work cells), process flows, and material handling systems. During this course students will learn techniques for generating, improving, and evaluating facility layout solutions using qualitative and quantitative approaches, and creating final layouts using 2D CAD software. The students will learn how to perform space and equipment requirement analysis, analyze material flow, develop layout alternatives, and select the preferred layout by implementing optimization procedures.