Autthors:Â Choudhury Abul Anam Rashed, Mst. Nasima Bagum , Jahid Hasan, Jafor Ahmad
Abstract:Â This research was conducted to redesign the facility layout of a secondary level hospital. The aim of the current research is to relocate departments based on the closeness priority between them and to reduce service time and the overall movement cost. Here, Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) technique under process layout approach was used to arrange the departments within the predefined facility boundary. Then movement cost for existing and proposed layout is calculated in MS Excel based on an established mathematical model. The model has four attributes, namely travel frequency or number of trips, trip difficulty rating, baseline travel cost and distance between departments for determining the movement cost. The calculation evaluates the effect of different proposed layouts based on movement cost and shows a significant reduction in movement cost from the existing layout. Among four proposed layouts, optimal layout shows 47% reduction in movement cost compared with the existing layout.
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