Brat Electronics Ltd is a small manufacturer of electronics-based products. The operations manager realises that a shop floor re-layout is well overdue. The facility manufactures seven products and a table summarising the operation sequences of these products is given below.

Work centre type

Part Identifier & Operation No. Area required (m2) A B C D E F G Guillotine 1,2 1 1 1 45 Press 3 2 2 2 90

PCB Assembly 4 5 3 1,4 1 3 440 PCB Test 5 3,7 5 1 2 4 550 Clean 4 4 2,7 2 5 270

Hand Solder 8 4 6 90 Flow Solder 7 8 6 5 3 7 180

Drill 3 8 175 Paint 6 6 9 140 Trim 9 8 3 10 90 Assembly 10 10 8 5 4 11 90

Pack 11 9 7 6,9 12 40 Despatch 12 11 9 10 6 5 13 90 The Production Planning department has summarised the volumes for these products on a weekly basis as follows:

Part Identifier A B C D E F G Number/week 750 500 1600 1200 400 800 400

Number/batch 3 100 40 12 100 100 2

The existing space is shown in the figure below. 2 VARSITY ROAD 24 m 15 m

60 m

2 m Walkway Office entrance Shop floor entrance/exit

a) Using structured layout planning techniques (travel chart, work centre

relationship analysis and the materials handling cost equation), prepare a process layout proposal which is safe and attempts to minimise the materials

flow between work centres – neatly drawn to scale and labelled. b) Prepare a brief report indicating and illustrating the factors you have considered and the contribution of the analysis you have undertaken. c) Explain the challenges associated with cellularising this facility.

(Your assignment submission should be no longer than 7 single-side pages including

all text, diagrams, analyses and calculations. Assignments to be submitted FAO Prof. A.C. Lyons to PG Office, ULMS and via VITAL. Please complete and attach an assignment submission form for the hard copy.)