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Facilities Planning For An Aerospace Manufacturing Company, William Petrossi Nov 2012

Facilities Planning For An Aerospace Manufacturing Company, William Petrossi

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Absolute Technologies Inc. (ATI) has been growing for years, and is running out of space at their current manufacturing facility in Yorba Linda, CA. ATI will be moving to a much larger facility this winter. They are looking for an efficient way to utilize this space. The machine positions were taken as fixed, seeing as a lean expert was brought in to give advice on placement. With the machines fixed, the scope was narrowed to other areas.

A systematic approach to facilities design is utilized. First, a goal needs to be defined. The goal is to reduce the time wasted …