Ehsan Ayati - Postgraduate Student of Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Amir Abdekhodaee - Assisstant Professor, Faculty of Engineering and industrial Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Facilities design and planning plays an important role in industries nowadays. This knowledge includes wide spectrum of techniques and methods use to design or redesign present location of departments and machines in a plant. This design usually reduces production time, inventory volume, machines idle time and will cause to smooth flow of material between machines and departments. In the other word knowledge based layout design, leads to more optimized and productive Business. According, to the literatures an efficient lay out design can reduce production time up to 30%. It means that final product cost can be reduced significantly via a proper plant facilities design. This paper is about to evaluate using both space allocation method and fuzzy logic technique in layout design for a new constructed room in S&K Plastic Company in Melbourne. There are variety of facilities design method both quantitative and qualitative approaches, have been verified by other researchers before. But base on author literature reviews this mix technique has not been tested yet.

Facilities Planning, Qualitative Approach, Fuzzy Logic, Space Allocation, S&K Plastic Company,