PLANT LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION OF OVEN MANUFACTURING UNIT USING CORELAP ALGORITHM

Abstract

The objective of this paper to optimize the existing plant layout of a company that manufactures ovens. The existing layout is redesigned to reduce the cost and effort of material handling. The initial layout of the company had 43.20% surplus area and it was incurring a total material handling cost of Rs. 2588.2/month. Facilities planning and design techniques were used to obtain an optimal layout. Use of CORELAP algorithm reduced surplus area of the layout to 8.83%.