TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephens,Matthew P.
AU  - 
TI  - Manufacturing facilities design and material handling / 
SN  - 9780135101292 
U1  - 658.23 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Upper Saddle River, NJ : 
PB  - Pearson Prentice Hall, 
KW  - Plant layout
KW  - Materials handling
KW  - Production engineering
N1  - "International edition"--Cover; Includes index; 1. Introduction to Manufacturing Facilities Design and Material Handling. 2. Sources of Information for Manufacturing Facilities Design. 3. Time Study. 4. Process Design. 5. Flow Analysis Techniques. 6. Activity Relationship Analysis. 7. Ergonomics and Workstation Design Space Requirements. 8. Auxiliary Services Requirement Space. 9. Employee Services-Space Requirements. 10. Material Handling. 11. Material Handling Equipment. 12. Office Layout Techniques and Space Requirements. 13. Area Allocation. 14. Facilities Design-The Layout. 15. Application of Computer Simulation and Modeling. 16. Selling the Layout

N2  - Takes a practical, hands-on, project-oriented approach to exploring the techniques and procedures for developing an efficient facility layout. The book also introduces state-of-the-art tools including computer simulation. Theoretical concepts are clearly explained and then rapidly applied to a practical setting.
ER  -