Development of a Suitable Layout for Packaging Plant of a Sugar Industry

Authors

Anthony Papo
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Morobe Provice, PMB 411, Papua New Guinea
David Kawage
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Morobe Provice, PMB 411, Papua New Guinea
Kamalakanta Muduli
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Morobe Provice, PMB 411, Papua New Guinea
John Pumwa
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Morobe Provice, PMB 411, Papua New Guinea

Synopsis

The technology behind plant layout design is very important in this modern world where countries are dramatically industrialized due to advancement in technology. This technology is helpful to the world of industrial business. The arrangement of different departments of an industry is very important because the economic activity of the industry depends on the operation of the industry according to its layout design. There are different types of plant layout and the most common ones that are covered in this paper are the process layout, product layout, fixed position layout and combination layout. There are two types of design methods of these layouts and they are manual method and computerised method. The computerized methods are of two types, constructive and improvement algorithm. C

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Published
January 16, 2020