It focuses on the determination of the requirements for people, equipment, space, and material in the facility. It presents concepts and techniques to facilitate the generation of alternative facilities plans and continues to focus on generating alternative facilities plans.
It also presents a variety of quantitative approaches that can be used to model specific aspects of facilities planning problems and discusses the treatment of facilities planning.


العناوين الرئيسية في الكتاب

• Product, Process, and Schedule Design.
• Flow, Space, and Activity Relationships.
• Personnel Requirements.
• Material Handling.
• Layout Planning Models and Design Algorithms.
• Warehouse Operations.
• Manufacturing Systems.
• Facilities Systems.
• Quantitative Facilities Planning Models.
• Evaluating and Selecting the Facilities Plan.
• Preparing, Presenting, Implementing, and Maintaining the Facilities Plan.

Methods, Standards, and Work Design features information on the traditional industrial engineering topics such as work sampling, time study, allowances, facilities layout and operation analysis. In this edition, however, there is more of an emphasis on the importance of ergonomics and work design in methods improvement. Several chapters focus on manual work design, equipment and tool design and the design of the work environment.