Designing the facility layout of an industrial vice production using promodel softwar

Facility layout always plays a prominent role for a manufacturing industry since layout is the deciding factor for the major operations of the manufacturing unit. The thesis covers the importance of the facility layout and designing of optimum layout of a facility for the production of an industrial vice. The purpose of the study is to develop a layout with the best efficiency in manufacturing of industrial vice. The machining operations performed during the manufacturing process are identified and are arranged into a sequence of operations using the operations process charts. After preparing the process chart, the cycle time is balanced. This time includes the time taken for a part to be machined and also the delay time the amount of time the part has to wait to be machined. As the cycle time is defined, the number of work stations are defined depending upon the cycle time. Once everything is setup, the logic is made and the virtual layout is generated. The simulation process is implemented for the designed model to understand the efficiency of the layout and by making any further changes and improvements to the layout. This simulation process is done through the ProModel software.