Chapter 3: Facilities Management

It is the movement of goods, materials, energy, and people

• continuous flow processes

• logistics systems

• flow systems

This is where products continuously travel through successive production state.

• flow systems

• continuous flow processes

• discrete flow processes

activities linked to the material flow system and physical distribution system

• flow systems

• logistic systems

• supply chain management systems

used for long assembly processes, which is necessary to keep the receiving and shipping ends on the same side.

• straight- line flow

• u-shaped flow

• s-shaped flow

• w-shaped flow

it is a flow of process that considers the flow of materials into a manufacturing facility.

• material management systems

• flow systems

• material flow systems

these are clusters of workstations to be assembled collectively during the facilities layout process.

• u-shaped flow

• material flow systems

• production planning departmens

planning department that consists of the entire workstations needed to produce the product and the staging area.

• product line department

• fixed materials location department

• product family department

this owes to being formed by combining workstations that executes similar processes.

• product family department

• process departments

• production line department

a tabular means of displaying the closeness rating among all pairs of activities or departments.

• quantitative flow measures

• u-shaped flow

• activity relationship chart

consists of the fixed assets needed to perform a specific operations.

• product line management

• workstation specification

• product family management