Master Site Planning & Development
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Master Site Plan Example
High Plains Implements
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site above provided many planning challenges. Among these
challenges: 1) It faces a busy thoroughfare and needs to have a good
image. 2) Residential areas to the North require consideration. 3) The
land slopes significantly and a stream runs through it.
One might well criticize the original selection of this site. However, like many sites, it was a given and the designers had to work with it. The site plan reflects an explicit Manufacturing Strategy. Some of the key points that affected site planning were: 1) Separate Strategic Business Units (SBU) for Foundry, Machine Shop, Spares and the two Assembly Operations. 2) A separate, small Corporate Headquarters. 3) Significant seasonal inventories for Implements. 4) Consideration for the image and needs of neighbors. |
References LEE, QUARTERMAN, Facilities & Workplace Design, Engineering & Management Press, Norcross, Georgia, 1997. SKINNER, WICKHAM, The Focused Factory, Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1974. WRENNALL, WILLIAM, AND LEE, QUARTERMAN, Handbook of Commercial and Industrial Facilities Management, McGraw Hill, August, 1993. PHILLIPS, EDWARD J., Manufacturing Plant Layout: Fundamentals and Fine Points of Optimum Facility Design, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, USA, 1997.
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