Current products in the market are customer oriented. Customers demand for low priced products in minimum possible time of production. To achieve competitiveness and to stay ahead in the business, manufacturers adopt lean manufacturing strategies. Lean principles are focused on elimination of wastes, streamlining the processes there by reducing cost and product delivery time. Lean concepts are ...

Existing buildings are characterized by the continuous change in functional requirements of their end-users. As such, they subjected to renovation or reconstruction, which is associated with total partial demolition buildings, leading an increase construction and waste. In addition, materials abandoning circular loop leave adverse impact on environment. This research integrates building informa...

Abstract Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the use on-site factories that combine strengths both prefabrication techniques and a traditional work environment support lean principles promote industrialized construction for operations. Design/methodology/approach Based on design manufacturing assembly (DfMA), discrete-event simulation used evaluate different arrangements configu...