Question

We know that layout planning is deciding the best physical arrangement of all resources within a facility and facility resource arrangement can significantly affect productivity.

1. What are the different types of layout? Explain each type with some examples with pictures (downloaded from the internet).
2. Based on your understanding and knowledge about facility layouts, explain the existing layout of your kitchen at home. (You can draw a rough sketch of the existing kitchen layout)
3. What are the pros and cons of the current kitchen layout?

Now we also know that there is always room for improvement (Kaizen). If you are given a chance to redesign your kitchen,

4. What changes will you make and please also sketch the proposed layout?
5. Give reasons for the changes you have made.

Answer 1

a.

Layout of a building is the plan hich shows the plan of its foundation on the ground surface according to the drawings so that the plan is excuted on the basis of it the position and orientaion made of the building as specified exactly.

Layout in construction is the ability to specifically designate the above and below ground location of a structure to be built.​ It provides an accurate, reliable working tooling for a project, incorporating planning, horizontal dimensions, elevation measurements and similar data.

Different types of layout includes

Identifying the site facilities that will be required.

Determining the sizes, and other constraints of those facilities.

Establishing the inter-relationships between the facilities.

Optimising the layout of the facilities on the site.

There are four basic layout types process, product, hybrid, and fixed position.

b. The layout of my kitchen is uploded in figure.

c.There is only one advantage of my kitchen in this layout design that it occupies least space for design of my building.

there are many disadvantages

It is not properly ventilated

no light comes directly to it

suffocation occurs by the food cooking

a.the changes made will be kitchen will be shifted to front

b. the changes made in the propsed layout will allow to come light and also allow transit of air to avoid suffocation

and it will also not capture more space in comparison to previous layout design.