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Part I - Product Design and Service Design: Product Design

Create a product design within an operations management environment, using real world research to support your work. At the beginning of your paper, introduce your planned work, to include a description of the elements of the product design, that you selected to focus on, and how you plan to apply it to a real world scenario.

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Whilst having real-world research findings is an obvious limitation that I have, I can certainly give you a framework as to how to design a facility layout along with some theoretical context.

We are going to take the help of the auto component assembly unit as our example.

For any industrial unit, production happens to be its primary activity. If we are to consider the inputs to our production facility, it would comprise various components such as labor, equipment/machines, capital, energy, information and resources. The output would be the finished product.

Now, there are various elements to any facility design plan and broadly they are

1. Space Planning Units (SPU)

2. Affinities

3. Space

4. Constraints

SPU is essentially an idealized spatial diagram of the floor of the manufacturing plant. Further concretization of the same happens when we add an affinity diagram to it. This results in what is called a primitive layout. Space and constraints are added dimensions that convert the primitive layout to a macro layout.

The factory layout, however, is not confined to designing the floor plan only. We can make layers of various designing stages such as below

· Level 1: Global (Geographical location of the facility)

· Level 2: Supra (Site planning)

· Level 3: Macro (Layout of the building)

· Level 4: Micro (Layout of various departments)

· Level 5: Sub Micro (Designing the workstation)

For the example that we have taken, level 1 decision will be based upon the policies of the local government, the quotient of ease of doing business, etc. Similarly, level 2 decisioning will be based upon the availability of land, and other resources, availability of employees, etc.

Macroplant layout has the following elements