Title
Shop-Floor Information Systems For Industrialized Housing Production
Keywords
Barcode; Industrialized housing; Lean labor management; Modular homebuilding; Shop-floor control
Abstract
Competitive pressure in the industrialized housing industry is resulting in an increasingly complex mix of custom home designs and homebuyer options. While good news for the homebuyer, this is often problematic on the production floor, which must respond to design variations without a substantive understanding of how they impact the roughly fifty production activities. This paper describes an approach for collecting, analyzing, reporting and using labor data to manage shop floor operations for housing manufacturers. The approach couples barcode scanning and wireless communications technologies with custom software, enabling employees to easily record their activities on a real-time basis. Web-based software provides analysis and reporting of production performance from either a real-time or historical perspective. The paper summarizes lessons learned from early implementation efforts, including both technical and organizational concerns affecting data accuracy and user acceptance, and suggests future improvements and integration with other management systems.
Publication Date
12-1-2004
Publication Title
IIE Annual Conference and Exhibition 2004
Number of Pages
2203-2208
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
30044452126 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/30044452126
STARS Citation
Broadway, R. Scott and Mullens, Michael A., "Shop-Floor Information Systems For Industrialized Housing Production" (2004). Scopus Export 2000s. 4810.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/4810