Facilities Planning and Design/ Facilities Management

May be defined as a place where the facility will be set up for producing goods or services. The need for location selection may arise under any of the following conditions.

• None of the above

• Facility Location

• Facility Layout

• Warehouse

Facility location planning is also required for providing a cost-benefit to the organization.

• True

• False

A facility should not be located at a place where raw materials are available. This is necessary for maintaining continuity in the production process.

• True

• False

This location selection technique requires organizations to identify factors that influence location decision.

• Factor Rating Method

• All of the above

• Weighted Load Method

• Center of Gravity Method

This location selection technique emphasizes on transportation cost in the determination of facility location.

• Center of Gravity Method

• All of the above

• Weighted Load Method

• Factor Rating Method

This location selection technique evaluates multiple transportation routes of shipping goods from multiple origins to multiple destinations and finds or develops the least cost route.

• Weighted Load Method

• Transportation Technique

• Factor Rating Method

• None of the above

Defined as the arrangement of machinery, equipment, and other amenities in a facility.

• Facility Layout

• Facility Location

• None of the above

• Warehouse

This layout is also called straight line layout.

• None of the above

•  Process Layout

• cCell Layout

•  Product Layout 

This type of facility layout is used to assemble products that are too large.

• Process Layout

• Product Layout

• Cell Layout

• None of the above

This type of layout is characterized by the grouping together of similar machines, based upon their operational characteristics.

• Product Layout

• Process Layout

• Cell Layout

• None of the above