Productivity Improvement Using Systematic Layout Planning: A Cement Refractory Case Study

The present study relates to the cement refractory layout configuration. The objective of the proposed research is to boost the inventory space and reduce the unnecessary travel of the material by applying the systematic layout planning approach to understand the movement of the material and the utilization of the region occupied by the machinery. The proposed layouts aim to boost the inventory area and reduce the unnecessary travel of the material by implementing the proposed configuration developed by analyzing the activity areas, the outline process chart, process flow diagram, affinity analysis diagram and space relationship diagram across 8 departments. Analyzing these data, an alternative configuration was developed, which reduced the transport distance significantly between the two departments and spread up the inventory space, allowing a better storage and travel area.