COURSE SYLLABUS

IE 310   FACILITIES pLANNING   (3-0) 3

URL: http://ie.atilim.edu.tr/~ie310

Catalog Data:

Facilities Planning and its relation to Supply Chain Management. Definition and modeling solutions of single and multi-facility location problems. Relative location and layout of facilities/departments in production and service industries. Use of computerized layout techniques to generate and evaluate layout alternatives. Introduction to material handling and warehousing.

Text Book: 

Tompkins, J. A.,   J. A. White,  Y. A. Bozer,  E. H. Frazelle, J. M. A. Tanchoco and J. Trevino. Facilities Planning, John    Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, U.S.A. 1996.

References: 

Francis, R.L., McGinnes, L.F. and White, J.A., Facilities and Location: An Analytical Approach, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,  U.S.A. 1992.

Sönmez, A. İ., Production Plant Design with Applications, University of Gaziantep, Gaziantep, 1998.

Prerequisites by Topic:

Linear programming

Method for Assessing Student Knowledge of Prerequisites Topics:

None

Goals:

This course aims at providing the students with the knowledge of modeling and analytical techniques useful for determining locations and layouts for production and service facilities. By the end of the course, the students will understand the major issues involved in location and layout decisions and will be able to incorporate these issues in mathematical models and solve these models to obtain insight to make appropriate decisions.

Objectives:

• To enable students to model and solve real life location and layout problems by considering the entire manufacturing and/or service systems within their supply chains.

• To emphasize the importance and the role of facilities planning in reducing costs and increasing productivity and service level through better handling and distribution.

• To enable students to understand and appreciate professional behavior in engineering and to make him/her a contributing member of multi-disciplinary teams.

• To motivate student to use modern computer analysis tools in the solutions of location and layout problems.

• To enable students to participate in teams to analyze and solve real-life facilities location and/or layout problems.

Topics:

1.        Introduction to Supply Chain Modeling and Facilities Planning (2 weeks)

2.        Facilities location and customer allocation models (3 weeks)

3.        Product, process and schedule design (1 week)                     

4.        Flow, place and activity relationships; and determination of area requirements (2 weeks)

5.        Relative location and layout of facilities in production and service industries (2 week)

6.        Use of computer aided layout techniques to solve facility layout problems (2 weeks)

7.        Material handling and warehousing (3 weeks)

Computer Usage:

Software packages such as CRAFT, CORELAP and LAYOPT are used to evaluate layouts.

Laboratory Projects:

None.

Contribution to Professional Component:

1.     Mathematics or Basic Sciences            0 Credits

2.     Engineering Sciences and Design         3 Credits

3.     General Education                               0 Credits