978-0470444047 Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Introduction

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SECTION 1.1

1.1a To plan for a football game, a visiting head football coach must:

 Make sure that his players and coaches understand the game plan

1.1b To plan for a football game, the home team quarterback must:

 Practice drills and fundamentals

1.1c To plan for a football game, the manager of refreshment vending must:

 Make sure all food, beverages, condiments, and paper supplies are ordered and

1.1d To plan for a football game, the ground crew manager must ensure that:

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1.1e To plan for a football game, the stadium maintenance manager must:

 Examine plumbing fixtures to make sure they are operational

1.2 Ten components of a football facility are:

 The stadium structure

1.3a Activities that would be involved in planning the location of an athletic stadium are:

 Marketing analysis: Is there a fan base to support the teams or events that will

1.3b Activities that would be involved in planning the design of an athletic stadium are to

determine the facility layout and systems and the material handling systems that are

necessary to operate the facility. Items that need to be determined within the facility

layout are as follows:

1.3c Activities that would be involved in facilities planning for an athletic stadium are

1.4 Customers in the transportation, communication, and service sectors do have a need for

facilities planners. Service facilities such as hospitals, restaurants, athletic facilities, and

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SECTION 1.3

1.5 Use the following criteria for determining the optimal facilities plan:

 Does the facility provide for the company’s future storage requirements?

1.6 This answer will vary from campus to campus, but some things of which the student

should be aware are:

 Traffic patterns on campus

 Whether administration offices are easily accessible

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SECTION 1.4

1.7a Facilities Planning Process for a Bank

1.7b Facilities Planning Process for a University

1.7c Facilities Planning Process for a Warehouse

1.7d Facilities Planning Process for a Consulting Office

1.8 The first task that needs to be accomplished is to determine the site of the library on the

SECTION 1.6

1.9 Facilities planning is never completed for an enterprise. If facilities planners believed

this, then numerous enterprises would be doomed to failure. New technologies, different

1.10 Certain items to look for from this paper are that an architect is more involved with the

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1.11 The IIE description of Industrial Engineering is:

Industrial engineering (IE) is about choices. Other engineering disciplines apply skills to

very specific areas. IE gives an opportunity to work in a variety of businesses. The most

1.12 The articles read should relate to the strategic planning process and should draw parallels

demonstrated.

1.13a Strategic uses for an airport that must be addressed in facilities planning include:

 Location

 Types of planes that will be flying into the airport

1.13b Strategic issues for a community college that must be addressed include:

 Location of classroom facilities

1.13c Strategic issues for a bank that must be addressed include:

 Types of services provided

1.13d Strategic issues for a grocery store chain that must be addressed include:

 Types of products to sell

 Arrangement of shelves within the store

1.13e Strategic issues for a soft drink bottler and distributor that must be addressed include:

 Location of bottling facilities

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 Distribution routes

1.13f Strategic issues for a library that must be addressed include:

 Location of the library

 Number of books that the library can contain

1.13g Strategic issues for an automobile dealership that must be addressed include:

 Parking area required

 Level of knowledge of automobiles that employees must have

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1.13h Strategic issues for a shopping center that must be addressed include:

 Types of shops to be included in the center

1.13i Strategic issues for a public warehousing firm that must be addressed include:

 Size of the warehouse

1.13j Strategic issues for a professional sports franchise that must be addressed include:

 How does the ownership manage the franchise?

 Location of a facility in which to play

1.14a When there are many critical short-term problems that a company has to solve at once, it

is generally due to a lack of good strategic planning. Many times, critical problems such

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1.14b Everyone needs to have a say in the strategic planning process. However, if critical

individuals are too busy to do some sound strategic facilities planning, they will always

1.14c A good facilities plan will be flexible enough to change with future events. For example,

a company that supplies the automobile industry builds a warehouse during a downturn in

1.14d This is a response of laziness. It takes much work and research to determine what

alternatives are available besides the one the company is using. Data collection is needed

1.14e Strategic facilities planning is an ongoing process. Technologies come and go, and a

good facilities plan will enable a company to adapt to rapidly changing technologies as

1.14f One cannot get an exact dollar figure on the cost of a strategic plan implementation and

the savings it will generate. However, examination of past trends and the prices of

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1.15 Doing facilities planning for a manufacturing facility is a positive exercise for a company

in terms of its competitiveness. The production flow can be examined by simulation, and

competitive edge.

1.16 Using strategic planning to assist with your career allows you to evaluate where you are

compared with the goals you set for yourself. If you have fallen short of your goals, it

1.17 Automation, if planned properly, can have a positive impact upon facilities planning. If

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1.18 Issues that should be addressed during strategic planning for warehousing/distribution

include:

 Number of shipping and receiving docks

The primary customer service consideration for a warehouse/distribution strategic plan is

1.19 All of the requirements for success in Supply Chain Synthesis are directly linked to the

facilities planning process. A proper facilities plan will enable a company to achieve

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1.20 The main difference between strategic planning and contingency planning is that strategic

problems as or after they occur.

1.21 Facilities planning is not a thing that can be rushed or done halfway because the

personnel have “more important things to do.” If facilities planning is done that way, the