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Excel Ltd has six departments located across six locations. The document provides information on the daily movement of employees between departments and the distances between department locations. It asks to (a) construct a flow diagram showing interdepartmental movement and calculate the daily flow cost for the current layout, and (b) construct an improved layout and calculate its daily flow cost. For the current layout, the daily flow cost is calculated to be 57,200 person-feet. For the improved layout, departments D and F are placed in the central locations due to their high flows with other departments, lowering the daily flow cost to 44,000 person-feet.

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Location 1 Location 2 Location 3 A 80' B C

Excel Ltd has six departments located across six locations. The document provides information on the daily movement of employees between departments and the distances between department locations. It asks to (a) construct a flow diagram showing interdepartmental movement and calculate the daily flow cost for the current layout, and (b) construct an improved layout and calculate its daily flow cost. For the current layout, the daily flow cost is calculated to be 57,200 person-feet. For the improved layout, departments D and F are placed in the central locations due to their high flows with other departments, lowering the daily flow cost to 44,000 person-feet.

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Question 7.

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Excel Ltd has six departments, which are assigned to locations in its facility as shown in Figure. The
estimated daily movements among departments are given in a table. The travel distances are to be
approximated as rectilinear.
Location 1

Location 2

Location 3

A 80'

E 60'

Location 4

Location 5

Location 6

Assuming all flows are equally costly per unit distance, and using the middle of each department as
the location of the department, compute the daily flow cost (in person-feet) for the current layout.
(a) Construct a flow diagram showing the magnitude of flows among departments
(b) Construct an improved layout and compute the daily flow cost for the layout.
Answer 7.2
(a) The distances between the department locations are as follows:
1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 5-6: 80 feet
1-4, 2-5, 3-6: 60 feet
1-5, 2-4, 2-6, 3-5: 140 feet
1-3, 4-6: 160 feet
1-6, 3-4: 220 feet
Summing the products of the flows and distances:
fABdAB + fACdAC + + fDFdDF + fEFdEF =
20(80 ft) + 40(160 ft) ++ 90(160 ft) + 20(80 ft) = 57,200 person-ft
The table below shows interdepartmental flows.
Inter -department Flows
Department
A

20

40

10

10

20

20

40

60

50

10

40

30

90

20

(b) Departments D and F have the largest flows between them and other departments, so we put

those two in the two central locations, 2 and 5. department B has a large flow with F, so we put it next
to F; C has a large flow with D, so we put it next to D ,Departments Band E have moderate flows
between them so we put E across from B Departments A and C have moderate flows, so we put A

across from C. the resulting layout of 1-C,2-D, 3-E, 4-A, 5-F, and 6-B has a flow cost of 44,000
person-ft
Location 1

Location 2

Location 3

F 60'

Location 4

Location 5

Location 6

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Somerton Corporation has devised the following PFA chart for its product packs and operations
Product pack
1

A
B
C
D
E
F
G

(a) Rearrange the columns to make it easier to see the similarities among product packs
(b) Identify some possible cells (the operations to put in a cell)

Answer 7.3
(a) The following rearrangement forms several visible "blocks":
Product pack
8

C
D
E
F
G

X
X

X
X
X

X
X

X
X

(b) In this rearrangement, some likely cells are A, B for packs 4 and 8; C, D, E for packs 2 and 5 (and
possibly 3, 6, and 9 as well); and F, G for packs 1, 6, and 7.

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