Layout Guidance

JPR offers specific, detailed, written, technical layout guidance to assist organizations to perform layout work themselves.

JPR supports our clients; when you buy from this collection and need further assistance or explanation, call or email and I will help you out to the best of my ability.

　

　

Choose from these Topics

1. A Classic Master Layout Plan

Projects will differ, but this classic plan contains elements that address most factors. Apply the factors that are meaningful to the unique characteristics of the project you have in mind, ignore the rest.

Typical layout project sequence

Justify, Plan, Prepare, Move; the major phases of a project and the specific steps necessary. Perform these phases, and the listed steps and actions for successful completion.

Schedule and Timing for a Layout Project; Critical Path

For your facility action, do you have to meet a deadline, a lease expiration or an option? Or are you free of time constraints? Control the schedule either way.

Factors to consider In a layout project

These elements seem to cause more than their share of problems in layout projects, so they are worth a special section of their own.

　

2. Set the overall scope

What, when, where, who. Plan, and write down, the general objectives and assumptions for action. This document lists subjects to consider; they won’t all apply but many will, and they may not be obvious.

　

3. First layout steps to take, or else. Prepare the following, more or less in the order indicated, or later you will waste time or create an incorrect layout. Is this strong enough advice? Do it or else you will wish you had.

　

4. Glossary of terms, and why they are important. The terms defined are part of all phases of layout planning and implementation; cross-references to related terms are included.

　

5. An implementer’s plan, written for the person who will create the layout, or supervise the work, in order to assist a well-managed project. Lists the overall concepts and major steps to achieve results.

　

6. Block layout, detailed layout. A block layout is the first layout type created, and is intended to optimize the relationships and flow of materials between departments and functions within a facility. A detailed layout optimizes relationships and flow within a smaller area. This article explains what to do to create each.

　

7. Use a CAD system to help, or cut out paper-dolls? Both is better. The answer depends on your own present practice and CAD capability. This article explains what to do and how to do it.

　

8. Consider relationships between departments for efficiency.

An effective layout will place components according to the relationships between them, whether that is near or far away. This article explains how to put this theory into practice, with a template and instructions.

　

9. Two meanings for Ownership, one of which is stakeholders.

Ownership in the context of layout planning has two important meanings. An owner is a stakeholder, interested in the process and the outcome. The one who occupies an area is also an owner, and may feel especially entitled. All ownership must be considered by the layout practitioner, and this article explains how to do so.

　

10. Office layout is a special case

An office move or rearrangement is similar to most other moves, but it tends to be a special case because people and positions involved tend to be more influential. This article lists the actions necessary to produce a harmonious and successful office layout.

　

11. Technology-intense transfer; documentation is primary.

Technology transfer involves the same basic elements of layout and relocation as any other, but success requires added attention to documentation. This article considers the documentation, especially if technical or highly controlled processes are included, or a subsequent move is large, or over a distance, and / or if the processes will be operated at the destination by a different group of people than at present.

　

12. The destination: Prepare it to receive the layout

A layout project implies that there will be a move, of one or more functions, into a new destination. For that destination, early on determine the physical characteristics of each area, then compare the destination to the requirements of the incoming operation, then make adjustments. This article explains what is necessary for the preparation.

　

13. How to perform the inevitable move.

This document presents the detailed actions to perform the culmination of layout and relocation, the pack and move itself. What, how, when; are all included.

　

14. Workplace layout, important for a long time

Workplace layout is the arrangement of the tools, equipment, and materials that are present at a work station, and their relationship to the methods to be practiced by the person or persons who produce there. Who am I to improve on the original "Principles of Motion Economy" by Frank Gilbreath, whose basis goes back 125 years.

　

　

Support And Pricing

There is some written information available about layouts, although I believe you will find little of value on the web, certainly nothing as specific as this collection. The books available tend to be more general, while this collection is concise, specific, and directed to the realities of layouts in a modern operating environment.

And, no other layout guidance comes with a phone number to call for help as this one does. When you buy from this collection and need further assistance or explanation, call or email and I will help you out to the best of my ability.

Purchase any one article for $100, any four for $300, all fourteen for $1,000. And any purchase entitles you to assistance by phone or email.

Write a purchase order from your company for your selection, and I’ll email the articles and the invoice. Or we can operate through PayPal if you like.

This information is proprietary, but you are allowed unlimited use within your company. Reprints outside your company are not allowed.

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Email jack@jacksonproductivity.com, or

call Jack Greene at 626-375-2468