Manufacturing companies are facing an increasingly turbulent environment. In order to respond to thesedynamic market conditions, products and thus also production systems have to be adapted more frequentlyand much faster. However, time and cost targets are often missed by classic factory planning approaches dueto the lack of interoperability. Therefore, new ways have to be found in factory planning to overcome theseproblems. Building Information Modeling (BIM), which is used in the construction industry, provides apromising method for collaboration and interaction in complex projects. Therefore, an approach is presentedto systematically implement the BIM method in the factory layout planning process. The aim of this approachis to achieve a higher degree of collaboration between the individual specialist planners in earlier planningphases in order to reduce time and costs over the entire project and to lead to better and more valid planningdecisions and results. For this purpose, the individual roles in the planning process are defined, a processdiagram for layout planning is drawn up, and a basic data set is specified for the systematic entry of thetrades.