Facilities layout design for vise manufacturing using Blocplan

Production floor requires several supporting facilities such as warehouse, office, labor locker and shipping/receiving area. These facilities are used to do activities other than production such as storing raw materials, rest for labor and other administration works. These facilities must be designed around the production floor. Design facilities layout becomes important for production since it can influence the material and human flow between facilities and production floor. As the result the arrangement of supporting facilities is necessary to make production activities run smoothly. Mistake in arrangement of supporting facilities might increase material and human movements which in turn increase material handling costs. Vise manufacturing requires supporting facilities to support the production of vise. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the use of Blocplan in arranging supporting facilities for vise manufacturing.