FACILITIES PLANNING
plant Location:

Introduction: The ideal location. Proximity to market. Proximity to raw materials, Transportation costs. The labour supply. electric power. Water and land costs. Local Taxes. Security from attack. Specialised communities, Climate, Urban, Suburban, and small town locations, Plant location trends, Best location for small plants. Incentive offered by State Government for dispersal of industries. Planned Industrial centres Government industrial estate - public sector plants and their location, growing competition for industry amoung states to locate in their midst. centralisation v/s decentrlisation - decentralisation by horizontal and vertical methods. soures of informationconcerninglocation. Moving to a new location. Moving costs. To lease or buy or build an industrial plant.

Plant Location techniques: Euclidean distance, squared euclidean distance, rectilinear distance, linear distance methods, Prolems on multi-location.

Plant Layout:
Introduction to plant design, types of manufacturing processes. Plant location, influence of location on layout, Industrial Buildings. Influences of Buildingon Layout, Classical types of layout product layout and Process layout and practical layouts.

Planning the Layout: Various operational Research techniques for balancing of assembly lines, Fabrication line balancing
Safety Engineering; Safety in Machine shop, forging shop, carpentry shop, welding shop and foundary shop. safety in critical storage area. storing explosive materials, gases and inflammable liquids

MATERIAL HANDLING: Types of materials handled in an engineering plant, basic principles of material handling. Engineering and economic factors. Classifications of material handling equipment's according to operating principle, construction and nature of service.
Gravity equipment's - Chutes, belt and rolling conveyers. Gravity roller spirit's Fixed systems of power driven conveyers, Belt, chain slot, apron, wire aush, Pellet, roller flight, cross bar and chain trolley type of conveyers, Arm, vertical Belt and suspended tray type of elevatos, reciprocation elevators industrial elevators, screw conveyers, ribbon conveyers, bucket elevators, etc. Skip hoists, drag scrapers, tramways and cableways
Pneumatics and hydraulic conveyers.
Cranes ; jib electric overhead travelling (E.O.T.), cantilever cranes. Track systems; Overhead track of onorail system. Industrial railways, locomotive cranes.
Portable conveyers; Hand trucks, Forkit trucks.
Container systemof transport; Unit loads, standardisation of unit load handlig Co-ordination of handling with production; copntinous, repititive and intermittent type. Applicationof time and motion study.
Organisational and selection of material handling system. Operation, maintenence, and safety precaution Selection of plant layout from material handling criterial.
List of Reomended Books:

1. Practical Plant Layout, Muther, McGraw Hill

2. Plant Layout & Design, Immer, McGraw Hill

3. Material Handling, Immer, McGraw HillFacilities Planning, Tomphins James A & White John Wiley & Sons.

4. Facility Layout & Location, Francis R.C. & White J.A.Prentice Hall.