A FACILITIES POLICY FOR THE 1990s: 2

The introduction to this series (Vol 6/No 8, August 1988) explained the concept of organisational modelling and the three key processes by which it is made up. Here we explain the techniques for the extraction of information from the subject company in the analytical modelling stage, followed by a brief examination of the products of the synthetic and numerical modelling phases. The organisational modelling flowchart (Figure 1) will be used as an agenda for this discussion.