Omkar Gijare
Shubham Khaire
Mohd. Yasin Bagwan
Sahil Srivastava
Prof. Venugopal Kulkarni
Abstract
It is of crucial importance for all sorts of industries to consistently remain on the path of achieving optimum productivity in order to survive in the constantly enlarging competitive environment. In process or product layout i.e. in the batch or continuous production, it is much simple to evaluate the productivity by calculating amount of input resources spent for manufacturing unit product. Whereas it is a complex process to calculate productivity of fixed position layout in which every product is a turnkey project. The scope of this research study is to discover and apply some of the methods specified in the contents of industrial engineering sciences to evaluate the productivity of fixed position layout. Those include methods of work study, method study, time study etc. The analysis of wastage is also taken into consideration in order to determine the efficiency of suggested improvements. In order to design the plant layout, activity relationship diagram is the tool used as it accurately positions each activity with respect to the other. By means of this study, an attempt is made to resolve the standard procedure of estimating productivity of fixed position layout type of industries. This study has obtained the numerical values of productivity which are to be uplifted by implementation of suggested improvements
Keywords- Automation, Fixed position layout, Plant layout designing, Productivity, Work study