Subject: Production Engineering and Robotics

Difficulty: Medium

Marks: 6 Marks

Types of plant layout:

1.Product or line layout

2.Process or functional layout

3.Fixed or static layout

4.Combination layout.

Product layout:

1.This layout is also called flow-line layout, line layout or production line layout.

2.In this layout, the machines, equipment and work centers are arranged in a straight or curved line, in the order in which they have to be used, that is, according to the sequence of operations needed to manufacture a product.

3.To justify the product layout, the product must be standardized and manufactured in large quantities. Hence, this system is best suited for mass production.

4.Examples are: automobile assembly lines, bottling plant and so on.

5.The raw material enters at one end of the line and moves from one machine to another in the line without back-tracking or cross-movements and finally the end product leaves from the other end of the line.