INDE 4430 - Facilities Planning and Design

Units: 4
Design concepts and input requirements in planning and design of new or renovation of existing manufacturing systems. Product, process, and flow and activity analysis techniques. Flow lines and buffering techniques. Computer-aided layout design and evaluation. Design of handling systems. Math models of location problems. Prerequisites: INDE 3020 and INDE 3841 . Three hrs. lect., 3 hrs. lab.