To start designing a Factory layout,I first researched on various parameters required,existing food plant layouts and then wrote down the necessary parts of an industry.
Since the process flow chart was still not finalized,I concluded the areas in general as:
1) Receiving and Shipping Areas
2) Storage Area
3) Production
4) Packaging/Dispatch
5) Employee/Welfare areas
6) Waste water treatment,water tank.
7) Laboratories
8)Office
9) Electrical substations etc
In the meantime,I helped Lin/Shujuan to compplete the process flow diagram and the machines that we would require.
When the group finalized on the process flowchart,I drew a rough plant layout that looked like this:
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After a detailed meeting with Dr.Peter, realizing that there were a lot of flaws in the drawing,Me and Mekala drew a new layout taking into consideration the process flow,traffic flow to minimize contamination,ease of getting to the desired department/lab/facilities and restricting public assess. The layout was amended n number of times with change in process flow change and to make it have a proper sequence of material flow.
On deciding the layout.Me and Bene worked out the areas that will be required for the factory considering the average machine size and other parameters.
I then referred several books on CAD to draw the layout in a 2D form. Finally came up with a Factory layout that looked like this:
Some of the books/websites used for reference were:
- http://www.ncagr.gov/meatpoultry/pdf/Facility%20Guidelines.pdf
- http://www.extension.iastate.edu/publications/PM2077.pdf
- Engineering Drawing from First Principles using AutoCAD
