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Abstract:
The goal of this
project is to model the process of building a home as a factory
manufacturing process. Industrial Engineers study many ways to
shorten and optimize manufacturing processes. Once home building can
be viewed as a manufacturing process, there will be a plethora of
techniques available to shorten the time taken to build a house, and
optimize many aspects of the building process. There are, however, a few
crucial steps that must come before we are able to set up this model.
We need to find parallel parameters and variables between
manufacturing and building, and this is our
main mission. Our primary focus will be on variability: we need to
find out how to quantify it, but before that, we need to figure out
what it means in terms of building. Little’s Law is a relationship
between throughput, cycle time, and work in progress. There are worst
case and best case values for these variables that are determined by
the variability. In order to implement Little’s Law, variability must
be understood.
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