The main goal of the layout redesign is the elimination or‐ at least ‐ the reduction of the principal problems highlighted in the actual organization. The main criticalities are summarized below:
Excessive distance between workstations: this configuration causes an increase in moving times
and enhances the complexity of the visual controls of the raw material flows. In addition, the finishing process is divided into two, near different workstations. With this arrangement, the operators have to move to do the same operation, causing time inefficiencies.
Logical subdivision among workstations: at the present, there is no separation among the different kinds of workstations, though it would be desirable that similar operations would be arranged next to each other. Conversely, conflicting ones should be separated. Blowing, basting and pre‐fulling, and