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INTRODUCTION OF FACILITIES PLANNING

3.7.4 Process Departments (Process Layout)

 Grouping like processes together and placing individual process department relative
to one another based on flow between department

 Used when the volume of activity for individual part is not sufficient to justify a
product layout or group layout.

Basic layout types can be shown through Figure 3.2 below.

Figure 3.2: Basic layout types. (a) Fixed Product Layout (b) Product Layout (c) Group Layout
(d) Process Layout
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