Leagile Strategies for Optimizing the Delivery of Prefabricated House Building Projects
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Authors: Mostafa, Sherif; Tam, Vivian W.; Dumrak, Jantanee; Mohamed, Sherif
Abstract
Australian housing supply has not been responded at a rate commensurate with its growing demand. Residential housing sector is facing this serious shortage issue by actively developing and effectively using new construction material, processes and practices for sustaining its competitive advantage over other construction sectors in the Australian context. TheConstruction 2020report confirmed prefabrication/off-site manufacturing (OSM) as a critical vision for the Australian construction industry's future, as OSM provides opportunities for not only increased productivity and safety, but also decreased cost. It also has the capability of meeting the growing housing demand within the extant level of skilled labour. By combining lean and agile concepts, OSM's supply responsiveness and efficiency can be intensified. The current research studies the association between demand-supply housing imbalance factors using mixed methods from literature and interviews. Literature has documented four main factors that drive this imbalance: (1) housing completion time; (2) cost of a finished house; (3) customer preferences and (4) level of skilled labour. Interviews with 13 industry professionals identified the four main leagile strategies used to deliver prefabricated building projects. Literature and interview findings supported the development and validation of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) model comprising and incorporating these factors (and subfactors) and the four leagile strategies. The choice of the appropriate strategy to address the studied factors within the Australian context was optimized using analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The results from the AHP model show the suitability of applying each strategy at different degrees as influenced by the tested factors.
BENDING AND SPRINGBACK ANALYSIS ON SHEET METAL MATERIAL DISCONTINUITY
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME 14TH INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, 2019, VOL 2
Authors: Nikhare, Chetan P.
Abstract
Origami concept came up as an emerging technique for sheet metal bending or folding and is called as Origami -based sheet metal (OSM) folding. This process fits right in criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainable manufacturing due to minimal resources required to make the fold or bend. In this process, the line was created on which the bend was supposed to perform. Traditionally the intermittent material was removed from that line with a through cut. Then the bend was performed. During bending the force required was very less and thus it can also be called as easy bend operation. Because the material and removed all the way through the thickness of the metal, these part after bending cannot be used to contain particles smaller than the cut width or liquid solution due to leakage issue. To overcome this issue, this paper investigates the material discontinuities with a blind cut, where the material through the thickness was not completely removed. For this 4 sample types were created. Three additional variables were added in placing the sample during bend operation. Experiments were performed and bending deformation and springback were analyzed. After analyzing the results, it was found that significant thickness difference regions in the sample, smaller clearance, smaller width or cut, and width of cut facing punch are the best variable to have a better bending and less springback.