Question

Discuss the hierarchy of facility planning?

Answer 1

The transportation processes for patients, personnel, and material in large and complex maximum-care hospitals with many departments can consume significant resources and thus induce substantial logistics costs. These costs are largely determined by the allocation of the different departments and wards in possibly multiple connected hospital buildings. We develop a hierarchical layout planning approach based on an analysis of organizational and operational data from the Hannover Medical School, a large and complex university hospital in Hannover, Germany. The purpose of this approach is to propose locations for departments and wards for a given system of buildings such that the consumption of resources due to those transportation processes is minimized. We apply the approach to this real-world organizational and operational dataset as well as to a fictitious hospital building and analyze the algorithmic behavior and resulting layout.

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Answer 2

The hierarchy categorises both facility design and facility location.

• Smart businesses utilise facility plans as a methodical approach to make sure that the facilities and associated tools are required to accomplish both their short-term and long-term objectives.

• The hierarchy can be divided as -
• Facility planning gives rise to two components namely -

1. Facility Design
2. Facility Location

• Facility location further gives rise to three components namely -

1. Layout Design
2. Structural Design
3. System Handling Design

• The hierarchy helps to set up the planning environment, forecast, evaluation of space plans and scenarios, proper implementation and the follow-up
• It involves aligning facility goals with corporate objectives. Making sure the company and its facilities are prepared for the future is another important consideration.

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