Lean Manufacturing A Systematic Approach to Improving Productivity in the Precast Concrete Industry

PCI Journal ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Ray ◽  
Paul Ripley ◽  
Doug Neal
Keyword(s):  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Precast Concrete

scholarly journals A LEAN MANAGEMENT APPROACH FOR THE ROMANIAN TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Adriana DIMA ◽  
◽  
Ruxandra DINULESCU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Process Industry ◽  
Clothing Industry ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Reducing Costs

Lean management represents a systematic approach used for identifying and eliminating waste and non-value added activities from different industries, including the textile industry. Even if the lean manufacturing concept has shown important results in continuous process industry, the textile industry represents a good area for implementing this methodology targeting as a main objective the action of eliminating waste, thus reducing costs and therefore, increasing productivity. Being a customer oriented process, the system has the ability to eliminate a significant part of waste from the Romanian textile industry. As a result, this is an incipient study aimed to present the benefits of implementing Lean Management in the Romanian textile industry, through its improvement tools, as well as presenting a theoretical economic impact for a textile company. Also, taking into consideration that Lean Management is not yet applied in the Romanian textile field, the study will present a part of the areas which would need the Lean implementation, as well as further actions to be taken in order to improve productivity in textile industry.

Hoshin Kanri and A3: a proposal for integrating variability into the policy deployment process

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Tortorella ◽  
Paulo A. Cauchick-Miguel ◽  
Paolo Gaiardelli
Keyword(s):  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Market Leader ◽  
Auto Parts ◽  
Parts Manufacturing ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology to support the Hoshin Kanri (HK) process taking into account the variance of senior managers’ perspective regarding the relationships among objectives, key performance indicators and continuous improvement (CI) projects. Design/methodology/approach A four-step methodology incorporates the A3 report into the HK, whose deployment was weighted by the variability among managers’ perception about the importance of each decision. This methodology was applied in a market-leader Mexican auto parts manufacturing company that is undergoing a Lean Manufacturing (LM) implementation. Findings The results indicate that the proposed methodology provides an easier approach to consolidate different perspectives and weight the importance of CI projects. Moreover, it minimizes the possibility of managerial conflicts or the influence of a determined senior manager on others’ opinions during the deployment and prioritization. Practical implications This work may be of great interest to managers, consultants and professionals who deal with the implementation of LM and wish to prioritize the importance of CI projects within the perspective of HK. Originality/value HK provides a systematic approach to integrate strategic management with daily routine management through an adequate deployment of organizational policies to all levels. However, companies usually struggle with several issues such as the style of senior managers and consensus establishment among different opinions, which emphasizes the relevance of the proposed methodology in this study.

scholarly journals Implementation of Quality Filter Mapping (QFM) in Hot Press Using Lean Manufacturing To Eliminate Waste

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamad Yasin ◽  
Lukmandono
Keyword(s):  
Production Line ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Main Product ◽  
Hot Press ◽  
Customer Demand ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
The Face ◽  
Press Time

PT Sakari Sumber Abadi is a manufacturing company that is engaged in producing plywood products as its main product. This company has waste in the production line, namely in the 4.6 mm Birch product, including shrinkage putty, press mark, tip delemination, bubbles, ripping. Whereas for 18 mm Birch products, among others, press marks, putty shrinkage, concave, overlap, putty face too wide, ripping, waste in the face and delamination of the ends. What you want to achieve in this research is to eliminate the waste of 4.6 mm Birch Products and 18 mm Birch Products found in the Hot Press section in order to fulfill customer demand with the Lean Manufacturing approach. Lean Manufacturing is a systematic approach that eliminates waste and transforms processes. The results of the inspection using the Quality Filter Mapping (QFM) method obtained the largest waste in the Birch 4.6 mm Face 0.5 mm product, namely Failure to Riject by 0.82% and on Birch 18 mm Face 0.28 mm product, namely Failure to Riject by 7.1%. Recommendations for improvement include standard parameters of temperature, press time and pressure.

scholarly journals Problems of revitalization of residential quarters of prefabricated buildings on the basis of Stanislaw Moniuszko quarter in Lublin

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 085-104
Author(s):  
Anna Ostańska
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Precast Concrete ◽  
General Character ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Concrete Buildings ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Residential Quarters ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Housing Estates

The author’s algorithm for designing revitalization programmes for housing estates of precast concrete buildings comprises consecutive steps of analyses and actions necessary for addressing the complex problems of the estates in full. The algorithm proposed by the author has been created for a particular estate, however, it is of general character. Its systematic approach allows the user to adapt it to other types of building stock, post-industrial conversions, traditional housing etc. assuming that their individual qualities are accounted for in the diagnosis.

Reading Longer Words: Insights Into Multisyllabic Word Reading

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Heggie ◽  
Lesly Wade-Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Explicit Instruction ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Reading Difficulties ◽  
Instructional Programs ◽  
Morphological Knowledge ◽  
Morphological Complexity ◽  
Reading Accuracy ◽  
Grade 3

Students with persistent reading difficulties are often especially challenged by multisyllabic words; they tend to have neither a systematic approach for reading these words nor the confidence to persevere (Archer, Gleason, & Vachon, 2003; Carlisle & Katz, 2006; Moats, 1998). This challenge is magnified by the fact that the vast majority of English words are multisyllabic and constitute an increasingly large proportion of the words in elementary school texts beginning as early as grade 3 (Hiebert, Martin, & Menon, 2005; Kerns et al., 2016). Multisyllabic words are more difficult to read simply because they are long, posing challenges for working memory capacity. In addition, syllable boundaries, word stress, vowel pronunciation ambiguities, less predictable grapheme-phoneme correspondences, and morphological complexity all contribute to long words' difficulty. Research suggests that explicit instruction in both syllabification and morphological knowledge improve poor readers' multisyllabic word reading accuracy; several examples of instructional programs involving one or both of these elements are provided.

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