Visible Control Using the Facility Layout
Attaining flexibility in the number of workers at a workshop to adapt to demand changes is called Shojinka. … Shojinka … means to alter (decrease or increase) the number of workers at a shop when the production demand has changed (decreased or increased).
… Shojinka is equivalent to increasing productivity by the adjustment and rescheduling of human resources. … flexible workshop … is essentially a workshop which is achieving Shojinka …
—Monden (1993, p. 159)
Basic Types of Facility Layouts
The facility layout is the physical arrangement of the parts of the processes (departments, work centers, or equipment) within a facility. The facility layout provides the framework for the resource assignments ...
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