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Facility Planning

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Synonyms

Factory design; Factory planning; Layout planning

Definition

Facility planning is the process of planning a factory from the first idea up to the start of production. The process is systematic and task oriented, structured in phases, and carried out with methods and tools (after VDI 5200).

Facility planning can also concern any adjustment following later in the regular operation. The process may have different causes and also contain different planning cases. The tasks can be processed in the form of projects and steered by means of methods of project management by a team (after VDI 5200).

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History

Facility planning developed step by step during the course of the industrial development. A rigid division of work was predominant in the first mechanical factories around the year 1900. Due to the central drive systems, using steam engines and transmission belts, the machines had to be placed together very closely. A directed flow of material according to the...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Hans-Peter Wiendahl

  2. Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Garbsen, Deutschland

    Peter Nyhuis

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  1. Hans-Peter Wiendahl
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  2. Peter Nyhuis
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Correspondence to Hans-Peter Wiendahl .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. National Engineering School of Monastir (ENIM), University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

    Sami Chatti

  2. Mechanical Engineering, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

    Luc Laperrière

  3. Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Garching, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

  4. ITIA Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation, CNR National Research Council, Milan, Italy

    Tullio Tolio

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Wiendahl, HP., Nyhuis, P. (2019). Facility Planning. In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6401

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