You may opt to work on your organization or choose an enterprise in your locality and provide the information for the following questions: 1. The locational factors considered for establishing the enterprise. 2. Strategy adopted for identifying the location [Ex: factor rating, load, distances method etc.] 3. Type of layout.  4. Physical facilities existing [line lighting ventilators, type of building etc.] Explain the importance of layout, layout planning, and layout decisions as they affect your day-to-day work and everyday life.  Describe the situations/operations in your organization. From your answer in question no.2, select any two facilities and products/service in which you have encountered poor layout.  Explain for each what better solutions could be for the layout problem you have identified.

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  1. You may opt to work on your organization or choose an enterprise in your locality and provide the information for the following questions:

1. The locational factors considered for establishing the enterprise.

2. Strategy adopted for identifying the location [Ex: factor rating, load, distances method etc.]

3. Type of layout.

 4. Physical facilities existing [line lighting ventilators, type of building etc.]

  1. Explain the importance of layout, layout planning, and layout decisions as they affect your day-to-day work and everyday life.  Describe the situations/operations in your organization.
  2. From your answer in question no.2, select any two facilities and products/service in which you have encountered poor layout.  Explain for each what better solutions could be for the layout problem you have identified.
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