INDU 421 FACILITIES DESIGN AND MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS
Project – 20 points
The project is to be done in groups of maximum of 5 people. Collaboration between
groups are not allowed.
Students are required to design a plant layout for the production of one/more medical
products/equipments related to COVID-19 that requires the assembly of a number of parts
(between 10-15 components). While some parts will be produced in-house, some other parts
need to be purchased from outside vendors. Students are free to choose their products
however, instructors’ approval is required. For this project groups with 5 students will be
established. Each group should include least one student who is confident in CAD programs
and one more in simulation. The due date to submit your proposal for approval is on Friday,
24th September 2021.
All reports should be typed. You are required to use software program for conducting the
analysis, i.e., Arena, Cplex, python, excel etc.
Deliverables and Deadlines:
1. (5 points) Progress report: Submission Deadline: Wednesday, November 10, 2021,
17:45, on Moodle.
a. A 3-page summary of the progress you made. Submit on Moodle
b. Show all initial results
2. (20 points) Final submission: Submission Deadline: Friday, November 26, 2021,
17:45, on Moodle.
a. Final report showing your detailed analysis
b. maximum 10 pages.
c. Graph files, excel files, etc.
d. PowerPoint presentation file.
3. (5 points) Project presentations: 15 minutes each group. Friday, December 3, 2021,
17:45
Late submissions will not be allowed.
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Purpose:
o Design project allows you to apply the material you learnt in the class in a
real facility planning project.
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Objective:
o The objective is to design a plant layout for the production of some medical
products/equipment’s related to COVID-19.
o The selection of the product:
Your product should involve an assembly of several parts (min 10
and max 15 components).
You are free to choose your product, but my approval is required.
Some of the examples of the products from the last years’ projects:
Touch Liquid Hand Sanitizer.
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Teams:
o This is a team work. Groups of 4-5 students should be established soon
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Project proposal:
o This project should be addressed during the whole semester. You cannot
complete such project during the last week. Start working on it as soon as
possible. Project proposal should define your project early in the semester
so that you can start working on the project soon.
o Project proposal is a document of max 1 page including:
the names of the members of your group
the proposed product
a brief description of your project (one paragraph is sufficient)
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Scope of your project:
The project requires more than the design of a plant layout! Other issues which MUST
be addressed are listed below:
o Market analysis:
Justify the production of your product
o Product, process and schedule design
Include at least one document related to process design
o Vendors and suppliers selection
Suppliers are the ones supplying you with raw material and/or parts:
While most of the parts will be produced in-house, some parts need
to be purchased from outside vendors. You have to include both inhouse produced and outsourced parts.
Vendors are the ones who will be selling your product to the end
customers. This means that you have to define your retailers (or
wholesales).
o Equipment and personnel requirements
o Location selection
You must use at least one facility location method
o Plant layouts designs
Include From-To Chart and/or Relationship Chart
You need to produce several designs
At least one design should be produced by FactoryCAD
Selection of the best design
Draw the final design with FactoryCAD
o Materials handling
o Life cycle analysis of both product and facility:
What will happen to the product and to the facility in the long run?
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Presentation:
o Your team will present the project in the last week of the course.
o Everybody has to be present during the presentation and everybody has
to participate (speak). Each team member should be ready to answer
any question related to the project
o Your presentation should take around 10-15 min (this will be specified
later when the number of presenting teams is known). Longer
presentations than the maximum length will be penalized.
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Reports:
o Report describing your work in detail should be submitted at the time of
the presentation of your team.
o Soft copy of your report is required
Introduction
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Objectives of facilities planning
Product Design
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Exploded parts photographs
Component part drawing-detailed
Part List
Bill of Material
Process design
Route sheet data requirement
Assembly Charts
Operation Process Chart
Precedence Diagrams
Schedule design
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Process Requirements: Input/Output analysis (Scrap estimates), Machine
Requirement, Operator Requirement
Identification of each equipment required by each operation
Overall equipment requirements
Facilities Design
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Affinity diagram
Interrelationship diagram
Tree diagram
Matrix diagram
Contingency diagram
Activity network diagram
Prioritization matrix
Flow, space and activity relationships
Manufacturing cell forming
Direct clustering algorithm
Binary Ordering Algorithm
Cluster Identification algorithm
Flow process chart
Flow diagram
From-To Chart
Frequency chart
Relationship Chart
Relationship Diagram: Method 1 and/or Method 2
Space Requirements and Space relationship diagram
Departmental Specification and areas requirements
Material Handling
Layout design
one of Basic layout types
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Layout alternatives:
Pairwise exchange method
Graph-based method
CRAFT
MCRAFT
LOGIC
MULTIPLE with any sfc
CORELAP
ALDEP
MIP
o Simulation model to evaluate different layout