Define facility layout. Basic layout formats: office layout, retail layout, fixed-position layout, process-oriented layout, product-oriented layout, and work-cell (cellular) layout. Explain characteristics of these layout formats, benefits and drawbacks, and various layout differences.
Read a case on Layout Remodeling in Walmart Stores, and understand the main features of this retail layout.
Developing office layout using the Systematic Layout Planning (SLP). See the case on Sateriou’s Souvlaki in the lecture materials. I am discussing this case in the lecture materials, and also in the video. Study data in the Excel file (see the link above) with the SLP example, and also watch the SLP video-part 1 (see the link above) on SLP in Excel.
