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    The document discusses key factors to consider when planning a factory building, including the manufacturing process, flexibility for future changes, and provisions for expansion. It emphasizes the importance of separately housing service facilities, providing good employee facilities to boost morale, installing efficient lighting to increase productivity and safety, and ensuring proper ventilation to prevent discomfort and fatigue.

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    LECTURE 5

    DESIGN OF A FACTORY BUILDING


    The following factors should be considered while planning a factory
    building:-
    1. Nature of Manufacturing Process
    2. Flexibility
    3. Expandability or Future Expansion
    4. Service Facilities
    5. Employee Facilities
    6. Lighting
    7. Heating
    8. Ventilating
    9. Air-Conditioning
    10. Other Consideration
    Nature of Manufacturing Process:
    1. Buildings required to house continuous or intermittent production
    processes differ quite a lot in their design. Seldom is the same building
    suitable for both these types of productions.

    2. Building design varies with the type of product to be manufactured


    and the equipment utilized
    Flexibility:
    Suppose a factory owner is interested to leave his original product and
    decides to manufacture another product which he feels is probably more
    profitable. He cannot construct another building and thinks of using the
    same old factory building for making the new product

    Expandability or Future Expansion:


    Keeping provision for future expansion has become very necessary
    because of the enormous expansion of industry in recent years. Due
    consideration is being given to future expansions while designing a new
    building; but before that a plant site size large enough for current needs
    and for future expansion requirements should be purchased. While
    designing the factory building, it is thought of carefully that in future,
    whether the building will expand length or breadth-wise or more number
    of floors will be constructed

    Service Facilities:
    Service facilities such as firefighting equipment, sewage-treating
    systems, emergency and standby power equipment, compressed-air
    equipment, heating, lighting, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment,
    etc., should be housed separately and suitably.

    Employee Facilities:
    Good employee facilities are incentives to the employees of an
    organization and they build up the morale of the employees. Adequate
    provision should be kept as regards washroom and toilet facilities,
    dispensaries, cafeterias, recreation rooms, parking areas etc

    Lighting:
    One of the most important environmental factors is lightning which
    increases productivity, reduces accidents and adds to employee
    satisfaction.

    Advantages of Good Lighting:

    (i) Increased output, therefore decreased costs,

    (ii) Reduced accidents,

    (iii) Improved product quality,

    (iv) Better visibility, therefore less strain on the eyes,

    (v) Less spoilage and consequent rework,


    (vi) Better floor space utilization and improved house-keeping,

    (vii) Plant neatness and cleanliness can be better maintained.

    Ventilating:
    Ventilating is basically replacing stale air (of the factory building) by
    fresh air. If the stale air is not removed, it will smell bad and the
    concentration of carbon-dioxide, humidity and temperature will rise.
    Inadequate ventilation results in discomfort and fatigue. Modern plants
    provide ample ventilation by increasing the number of air changes per
    hour.

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