Impact of Improved Facility Layout on Energy Consumption in Industry

Abstract

Energy is important factor for developing nation like Pakistan. As developing country, more factories and buildings are being constructed but construction get reduced by land utilized in agriculture. Therefore role of facility layout becomes important. Changes in facility layout can cause changes in energy utilized by facility. Authors’ tries to develop relations on improving facility layout can effect energy consumption. A study was performed at local automotive industry production line of cylinder head to study their changes in energy consumption by improving production line. Multi criteria decision methods (MCDM) like analytical hierarchical process (AHP) and The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) were used on model developed by Simul8 software with help of value added and non-value added time of production line. MCDM with the help of model making software can help improve facility layout and reduce energy consumption and space utilization for production industries and offices. Also for further verification of optimized model VMS can be used to draw max production capacity line (amount of products produce to satisfy customer needs