8 S. L. P. Craft would like your help in developing a layout for a new outpatient clinic to be built in California. From analysis of another recently built clinic, she obtains the data shown in the following diagram. This includes the number of trips made by patients between departments on a typical day (shown above the diagonal line) and the numbered weights (defined in Exhibit TN69) between departments as specified by the new clinic's physicians (below the diagonal). The new building will be 60 feet by 20 feet.

a. Develop an interdepartmental flow graph that minimizes patient travel.

b. Develop a "good" relationship diagram using systematic layout planning.

c. Choose either of the layouts obtained in a or band sketch the departments to scale within the building,

d. Will this layout be satisfactory to the nursing staff? Explain.

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DEPARTMENTS 1 Reception 2X-ray 3 Surgery 4 Examining rooms (5) 5 Lab 6 Nurses' station 2 3 5 6 AREA REQUIREMENT (SQ.FT.) 2 5 200 0 10 100 A 0 E U 0 10 300 0 8 100 E I U 0 100 0 4 200 U A 0 15 500 U I 3 100 0 100