The effect of layout design on productivity: an empirical study

Shahrul Kamaruddin, Sok Yee Khoo, Zahid A. Khan and Arshad Noor Siddiquee

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2011, vol. 7, issue 4, 484-500

Abstract: This paper presents a comparative study that uses simulation to investigate the performance of different layout designs with respect to different levels of model and head count variability. There are three types of layout designs being examined in this paper: flow line, job shop and cellular layout. These three layouts are evaluated based on three selected performance measures which are throughput time, lateness and labour productivity. These three performance measures are selected because they relate with the overall layout productivity. The simulation model is build by using the WITNESS simulation package and the simulation results are tested in the F-test and Newman-Keuls test. In this study, the radio-cassette player production system has been used as an empirical study. The results show that the effect of headcount variability and model variability do create an impact towards the performance of flow line, job shop and cellular layout.

Keywords: layout design; flow lines; job shops; cellular layouts; head count variability; model variability; performance measures; throughput time; lateness; labour productivity; WITNESS; simulation software; F-tests; Newman-Keuls test; radio-cassette players; production systems; Malaysia; quality management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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