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Personal interviews and postal questionnaires have been used to determine the degree of
development, perception and present status of just-in-time (JIT) production in the Hong Kong …

Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing programs represent organizational commitments to im prove
input and finished product quality, elimi nate raw material and work-in-process inventor ies …

Construction is not manufacturing. However, manufacturing provides the elements from
which buildings, bridges, highways, houses and factories are constructed. Many of these …

Pre-assembly is an important facet of the strategy to re-engineer construction. It can be
categorized as: modular building; volumetric pre-assembly, non-volumetric pre-assembly …

Phased construction and fast-tracking have received considerable attention in recent years
and have been synonymous with the development of new project delivery systems under the …

The successful implementation of just-in-time (JIT) purchasing policy in many industries has
prompted many companies that still use the economic order quantity (EOQ) purchasing …

The topic of this thesis was construction management and improving the production control
processes in construction projects. The main goal of the research was to examine …

Component factories are experiencing the problems associated with lean production,
especially the accuracy of production time prediction and the unnecessary waste in terms of …

Many construction inefficiencies are due to supply-chain (SC) problems that occur at the
interface between processes or disciplines. This paper illustrates such problems by …