INEN 416          Facilities Location, Layout, and Material Handling Systems               Fall 2004

 

 

Instructor:   Brett A. Peters
Zachry Engineering Center
237 M
845-3574
bpeters@tamu.edu

Lab T.A.:     Anshu Jalora
Zachry Engineering Center
303P
847-8503
Anshu@tamu.edu

Office Hours:    MW 10:00 – 11:00
or by appointment

Office Hours:    tbd

Announcements:   A web site for this course will be maintained on the TAMCAM web server (http://tamcam.tamu.edu/) (Choose ‘courses’ from the top, banner menu and then ‘undergraduate’ and ‘inen 416’ from the left side).  This site will contain announcements and other information concerning the course.  In addition, it will be used to distribute homework assignments, class notes, or other material as required during the course.  Please check the web site daily — any information posted on it will be as valid as if it were mentioned in class.

Course Objective:      To develop an understanding of the principles of facilities location, layout, and material handling systems and to practice designing facilities.  The course will emphasize modeling, design, and analysis techniques.  It will try to provide a balance of exposure to available methodologies in facilities location, layout, and material handling with a practical emphasis on issues that are difficult to capture in quantitative models but are important to consider.  The course has the following educational objectives for students:

·         Learn formulations, models, and analytical procedures for the study of facilities layout planning

·         Learn fundamental principles of material handling

·         Be able to design a factory layout incorporating product, process, and personnel requirements

·         Improve presentation and team work skills

ABET Outcomes:       As a design course that encompasses skills from many of your prior courses, this course addresses many of the ABET student outcomes defined for our program.  In particular, INEN 416 specially addresses outcomes A, C, D, E, G, I, and K as defined in the INEN ABET materials (http://ise.tamu.edu/general/Outcomes_Summary.htm).

Required Text:      Facilities Planning, 3rd edition, J.A. Tompkins et al., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2003.

References:   ·  Facilities Design, S. Heragu, PWS Publishing, Boston, 1997.
·  Facility Layout and Location: An Analytical Approach, 2nd ed., Francis, McGinnis, and White, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1992.
·  Manufacturing Facilities: Location, Planning, and Design, 2nd ed., D.R. Sule, PWS, Boston, 1994.

Prerequisites:        INEN 315, 316
1.13 Prerequisites: It is the responsibility of the student to be sure that course prerequisites are met.  All prerequisites must be listed in the appropriate catalog or schedule of classes.  A student may register for a course for which he or she has not met the prerequisites only with the consent of the head of the department in which the course is offered.  Failure to meet course prerequisites could result in a student’s being dropped from the class.”
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Grading:         Homework                                                                         10%
Project                                                                                40%
Exam I (October 13)                                                          15%
Exam II (November 17)                                                     15%
Final Exam (December 13)                                               20%

Homework and project assignments will be collected at the beginning of the class period in which they are due.  No late assignments will be accepted.

Notes:      Attendance at the lab sessions is required.  You will be working as part of a team on a design project.  The lab time is mostly for your team to work together on your project.  Therefore, you must attend the lab sessions in order to contribute to your team’s activities.  Attendance will be checked and included as part of your project grade.  Please refer to latest Texas A&M University Student Rules for information on university excused absences.

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INEN 416         Facilities Location, Layout, and Material Handling Systems                Fall 2004

Course Topics:

Introduction to Facilities Planning                                          Chapter 1, 11, 12

Fundamental Concepts of Manufacturing                       Chapter 8

Facilities Layout

Overview

Basic Layout Types                                                            Chapter 6

Information Gathering                                                         Chapter 2

Flow and Activity Relationships                                       Chapter 3

Relationship Diagramming                                                 Chapter 6

Layout Procedures                                                              Chapters 6, 10

Space Requirements                                                            Chapter 3, 9

Schedule Design                                                          Chapter 2

Personnel Requirements                                             Chapter 4

Office Planning                                                             Chapters 4, 6, 10

Computer-Aided Layout                                                     Chapter 6, 10

Materials Handling Systems

Overview/Basic Concepts                                                  Chapter 5

Conveyor Models                                                                Chapter 10

Automated Guided Vehicle Systems                                Handouts

Automatic Identification Systems

Overview                                                                       Handouts

Equipment Types                                                         Handouts

Designing an Integrated System                               Handouts

Storage and Warehousing

Warehouse Space and Layout Planning                          Chapter 7

Warehouse Layout Models                                               Chapter 10

Storage Models                                                                    Chapter 10

Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems                     Chapter 10

Order Picking                                                                        Chapters 7 and 10

Order Accumulation and Sortation                                   Handouts

Facilities Location

Single-Facility Location Problems                                     Chapter 10

Location-Allocation Problems                                           Chapter 10

Network Location Problems                                               Chapter 10

Location of a Linear Facility                                               Chapter 10

Linear Assignment Problem                                               Chapter 10

Discrete Plant Location Problem                                       Chapter 10