Plant Layout of Pharma
Plant Layout of Pharma
Plant Layout of Pharma
PHARMACEUTICALS
Introduction
Importance
Types of plant layout
Sample layouts
References
Introduction
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Plant Layout:
Arrangement of physical facilities such as
Machinery
Equipment
furniture etc. within the factory building in such a manner so
as to have quickest flow of material at lowest cost & with
the least amount of handling in processing the product
from the receipt of material to the shipment of finished
product.
Pilot Plant:
It is the part of the pharmaceutical industry where a lab scale
formula is transformed into a viable product by development of
practical procedure of manufacture.
Importance
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Principles:
All the machine tools or other items of equipment must be placed
at the point demanded by the sequence of operations.
There should no points where one line crossed another line.
Materials may be fed where they are required for assembly but
not necessarily at one point. All the operations including
assembly, testing packing must be included in the Line.
Advantages:
Low cost of material handling, due to straight and short route
and absence of back tracking.
Continuous flow of work
Lesser investment in inventory and work in progress
Optimum use of floor space
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Disadvantage:
High initial capital investment in special purpose machine
Heavy overhead charges
Breakdown of one machine the whole production process
are stop.
Suitability Mass production of standardized products
Process Layout
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Principle
The distance between departments should be as short as
possible for avoiding long distance movement of materials The
departments should be in sequence of operations The
arrangement should be convenient for inspection and supervision
Advantages:
Lower initial capital investment in machines and equipments.
Breakdown of one machine does not result in complete work
stoppage
Supervision can be more effective and specialized
There is a greater flexibility of scope for expansion.
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Disadvantage:
Material handling costs are high due to backtracking.
More skilled labour is required resulting in higher cost.
Work in progress inventory is high.
Needing greater storage space.
More frequent inspection is needed which results in costly
supervision.
Fixed Position or
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Location Layout
Principle:
In this type of layout, the major product being produced is
fixed at one location. Equipment labour and components are
not moved to that location. All facilities are brought and
arranged around one work centre.
Advantages:
It saves time and cost
The layout is flexible as change in job design and operation
sequence can be easily incorporated
Adjustments can be made to meet shortage of materials or
absence of workers by changing the sequence of
operations.
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Disadvantage:
Production period being very long.
capital investment is very heavy.
Very large space is required for storage of material and
equipment near the product.
As several operations are often carried out simultaneously,
there is possibility of confusion and conflicts among
different workgroups.
Combined Layout
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Principle:
In most of industries, only a product layout or process layout
or fixed location layout does not exist. Generally, a
combination of the product and process layout or other
combinations are found, in practice.
Traders
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