Designing Facilities Layout for Small and Medium Enterprises

Abstract

Abstract — — Facilities layout is a systematic and functional arrangement of different departments, machines, equipments and services in a manufacturing establishment. It is vitally important to have a well developed plant layout for all the available resources in an optimum manner and get the maximum out of the capacity of the facilities. The problem is of particular importance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) because of major constraints that include cost and space. Selection of right method is a very important step in layout design. In this paper methods of layout design are discussed taking into consideration the specific issues and limitations of SMEs.