Om Case Study
Ref No.: OM0036
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UNRAVELING JUMBLED FLOWS WITH RELATIVE STATION PROXIMITY BACKGROUND IBS was shifting to its own campus in Dontanapalli in 2005. This research study was undertaken in 2004 with the intention of analyzing the existing facility layouts at IBS Nagarjuna Hills and IBS Banjara Hills as well as at the Institute for Management Teachers at Punjagutta. The objective of the study was to understand faculty, students and staff perceptions in terms of promoters and inhibiters of productivity in daily activities. Facility is used to mean the site, building, department or device where activities take place. It was observed that the existing layout at IBS developed various inefficiencies as it outgrew its initial requirements over the years which tended to hamper academic activity. At the same time there were layout decisions taken that both student and faculty were appreciative of since they were conducive to and promoted productivity. The study changes in scope and scale in addressing immediate, medium-term as well as long-term issues. The documentation of user perspectives of productivity facilitators and productivity constraints therefore incorporates the voice of the customer (internal as well as external) and serves as one of the inputs for the design of a user-friendly layout. Vox populi vox Dei. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE The facility layout of an organization has practical and strategic implications with respect to saving time and effort and therefore reducing the cost of movement within and between facilities by − Facilitating the flow of customers, material and information and − Increasing the efficient utilization of labor and equipment Layout Planning involves decisions about the physical arrangement of economic activity centres within a facility. An economic activity centre can be anything that takes up space – a person or
____________________________________________________________________________________ This case study was written by Siva
FCAII LTY AOU
UNRAVELING JUMBLED FLOWS WITH RELATIVE STATION PROXIMITY BACKGROUND IBS was shifting to its own campus in Dontanapalli in 2005. This research study was undertaken in 2004 with the intention of analyzing the existing facility layouts at IBS Nagarjuna Hills and IBS Banjara Hills as well as at the Institute for Management Teachers at Punjagutta. The objective of the study was to understand faculty, students and staff perceptions in terms of promoters and inhibiters of productivity in daily activities. Facility is used to mean the site, building, department or device where activities take place. It was observed that the existing layout at IBS developed various inefficiencies as it outgrew its initial requirements over the years which tended to hamper academic activity. At the same time there were layout decisions taken that both student and faculty were appreciative of since they were conducive to and promoted productivity. The study changes in scope and scale in addressing immediate, medium-term as well as long-term issues. The documentation of user perspectives of productivity facilitators and productivity constraints therefore incorporates the voice of the customer (internal as well as external) and serves as one of the inputs for the design of a user-friendly layout. Vox populi vox Dei. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE The facility layout of an organization has practical and strategic implications with respect to saving time and effort and therefore reducing the cost of movement within and between facilities by − Facilitating the flow of customers, material and information and − Increasing the efficient utilization of labor and equipment Layout Planning involves decisions about the physical arrangement of economic activity centres within a facility. An economic activity centre can be anything that takes up space – a person or
____________________________________________________________________________________ This case study was written by Siva