Research On Optimal Design Of Engine Workshop Layout

The design of workshop layout is one of the important content in the design of manufacturing system, and a good workshop layout or not decided directly the products quality, the productivity and the economy efficiency . This paper expatiates the basic principle, theory and method of the facility layout design, analyses principle and methods of the traditional layout design domestic and overseas, and then provides a frame of optimum design for workshop layout. This frame avoids the demerit of the traditional design method that relying excessively on experience, having over-restriction and being complicated, and thereby, extend the method of the design of layout. Directed by this frame and based on the unification of theory and practice, the planar engine workshop layout is optimized by using SLP; combining with the development of computer modeling and simulation technology and using correlative theories and methods about facility layout such as ergonomics and line balancing, some optimizing work in three-dimensional engine workshop layout is implemented. Consequently, the availability of the frame is validated, and the optimal design of engine workshop layout is completed.