COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FACILITIES PLANNING AND DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IND 5026 FACILITIES PLANNING AND DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZCAN KILINÇCI

Offered to

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
Industrial Engineering - Thesis (English) (Evening Program)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - NON THESIS (ENGLISH)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM) (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

This course focus on planning and design of manufacturing facilities. Facilities design teaches the analytical tools necessary to effectively tackle the problem of designing the layout of a productive facility. The course also discusses location problems, i.e., analytical methods to determine optimal locations of machines/ work centers in a manufacturing area. Various layout software and MATLAB are used to solve the facilities design problems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Expand their knowledge of Facilities Planning & Desing concepts and practices.
2   Address typical Facilities Planning & Design problems with greater confidence
3   Understand and apply the Facility Layout Techniques
4   Understand and apply the Material Handling System
5   Understand and apply the Group Technology and Assembly Lines
6   Understand and apply the Warehouse operations and order picking

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Defining Requirements Strategic facilities planning / Facilities design / Flow, space, and activity, relationships / Personnel Requirements
2 Layout and Computer-Aided Layout
3 Layout and Computer-Aided Layout
4 Simultaneous Development of Plant Layout and Material Handling
5 Material Handling Systems
6 Group Technology
7 Introduction to MATLAB, programming with MATLAB
8 Assembly Line Balancing Problems
9 Assembly Line Balancing Problems
10 Warehousing
11 Order picking
12 Basic facility location problems
13 Location analysis fixed cost
14 Continuous facility location

Recomended or Required Reading

J. A. Tompkins, J. A. White, Y.A. Bozer, E.H. Frazelle, J. M. A. Tanchoco and J. Trevino, Facilities Planning, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1996).
D.R. Sule, Manufacturing Facilities: Location, Planning and Design, 2nd ed., PWS Publishing Company, (1994).
Related e-books and articles.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture / Question-Answer / Discussion / Problem solving / Case study / Group study

Assessment Methods

To be announced!

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 35 35
Preparing assignments 8 8 64
Project Preparation 1 28 28
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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