PLANT LAYOUT IMPROVEMENT FOR RUDUCING NOISE AND AIR POLLUTION IN A FOUNDRY INDUSTRY

This research aims to improve the plant layout at a foundry industry. A new plant layout was designed for reducing the noise and air pollution from the process that had negative impact on the image of business. Some reasonable adjustments were made under the constraints of the interested process, the practical limitations and department relationships. The principle of Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) and Dileep R Sule’s theory were applied to design and evaluate the effectiveness of the plant layout, respectively. The effectiveness was evaluated mainly based on the consideration of the pollution and the flows of material in  production processes. As shown in the results, the new layout could reduce the pollution consequently the complaints reduced. Compared to the old layout, the new one was reduced to 23.96% of the effectiveness. In addition the average total distance of material handling was lower than the old layout about 22.41%.