Methodics of production layout design and its importance to logistics management

Contemporary global business market environment is characterized by high level of various requirements which are imposed on industrial companies in every branch. Those needs are related to e.g. manufacturing type, product quality and quantity, customer service, logistics indicators, etc. In final consequence the companies make an effort to develop logistics management systems to effectively manage their bulky material flows and simultaneously to minimize their costs. The enterprise logistics management systems are consisting of several subsystems, one of them is production logistics subsystem to effectively plan, to manage and to control all flows of manufacturing processes. For development of such subsystem it's necessary to have drawing documentation of production layouts. Production layouts are therefore crucial to effectively manage all manufacturing operations within the frame of given production logistics subsystem. Under current market conditions the companies should have drawing documentation of their production layouts in desired detail - industrial zone layout, production hall layout, production line layout, production workshop or cell layout and production workplace layout.