Master's lecture in Industrial Engineering - Sindri Snær Rúnarsson

Master's student: Sindri Snær Rúnarsson

Title: A first stage engineering design of a grow-out rearing facility for Sæbýli ehf

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Faculty:  Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science

Advisor:  Rúnar Unnþórsson, Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science

Also in the masters committee: Guðmundur Valur Oddsson, Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science

Examiner: Ari Jónasson,Engineer at Rio Tinto

Abstract

This research aims to create a pre-architectural design for a new grow-out rearing facility of abalone for Sæbýli ehf. with the goal of reducing operational costs. The grow-out facility contains an intensive aquaculture in tanks, using a recirculating system and needs to be able to produce 200 tons of abalones each year. To simplify the facilities layout design process, systematic manual techniques based on systematic layout planning were used. Starting with defining the problem by setting the purpose, the goal, and the scope of the project. To get a good knowledge of the processes, the machines, the flow of the product and the communications between employees, the process was drawn using the BPMN standard. To be able to project the employee count for the new facility a time study was done of the grow-out process. The facility was then divided up based on information from the processes and the present facility. To find a good location for each division a relationship chart was created, and an activity relationship diagram drawn. The space requirements of each division were added to the diagram creating a space relationship diagram which was used to create several block layouts. The block layouts were then evaluated with regards to their material flow, space requirements and adjacency score and the block layout with the highest score was selected. The result is an improved pre-architectural design for a new grow-out rearing facility for Sæbýli ehf. which can be used to create a final design of a grow-out rearing facility for abalones.