[Iefac.list] PFAST Software for Production Flow Analysis and Facility Layout

[Shahrukh A. Irani]

Dear colleagues:

 

The federal contract to develop the PFAST (Production Flow Analysis and
Simplification Toolkit) software for facility layout and material flow
analysis terminated in 2008.  Now, we can freely disseminate a demo version
of this software.  Initially, we developed PFAST to implement Burbidge's
method of Production Flow Analysis (PFA) which allows a radically different
approach to design of facility layouts.  To some extent, PFAST can be used
to design layouts at many levels --- supplier network for a complex product,
a factory, any shop in the factory, any cell in a shop and a single machine.
Later, we found that PFAST helps to implement JobshopLean, a body of best
practices that adapt and extend Lean for small-to-medium sized
manufacturers.  

 

There are no strings attached to this offer that is being extended to
faculty, students, industry practitioners, etc. J On receipt of your email
request for the software, you will be sent a .zip file that contains the
.exe file that you must run to auto-install PFAST.  Additional installation
instructions will also be provided in that email.  Depending on your
affiliation and residency, we may be able to release the professional
version of PFAST to you.  In that case, you will simply need to send us your
computer's System ID#, after which we will send you the Serial No. that will
activate the professional version of PFAST on your computer.  Note that you
could install PFAST on as many machines as you wish ex. in a student
laboratory using this executable.

 

And, if you are a faculty at a US university and would like me to teach a 1
or 2-day tutorial on the software and its applications in industry to your
class, I would be willing to do that if you bore just the costs for my trip.

 

Thank you.

 

Best regards,

Shahrukh 

 

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Shahrukh A. Irani

Associate Professor

Department of Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering

The Ohio State University

210 Baker Systems Engineering

1971 Neil Avenue

Columbus, OH 43210

Phone: (614) 688-4685 Fax: (614) 292-7852

URL: http://www-iwse.eng.ohio-state.edu/ISEFACULTY/IRANI/IRANI.htm

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