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Decision Support System for Manufactured Housing Facility Layout
- Source :
- Journal of Architectural Engineering. 14:36-46
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2008.
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Abstract
- Productivity improvement of manufactured housing (MH) production systems has been a great concern to manufacturers and production managers. Studies show that a typical manufactured housing plant fails to produce at desired capacity and production rate because of several shortcomings. The evaluation of the production system efficiency in the factory is essential for meeting the growing demand of customers with respect to design and size of the housing product. It is imperative to explore alternative layout designs that would be more efficient and productive. A decision support system (DSS) is proposed to assist the user in selecting an efficient layout design matching specified requirements and business constraints. The DSS framework covers interrelated factors of: (1) the market demand; (2) MH organization; (3) MH production process; and (4) MH production planning and facility design. Existing MH factories can utilize simulation and optimization components of the DSS in streamlining their activities and locating then solving potential bottlenecks. Additionally, the DSS can be used in selecting optimal production system layout for new plant design.
- Subjects :
- Construction management
Engineering
Decision support system
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
business.industry
Page layout
Building and Construction
computer.software_genre
Manufacturing engineering
Product (business)
Production planning
Architecture
Systems engineering
Systems architecture
Factory (object-oriented programming)
Production (economics)
business
computer
Civil and Structural Engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19435568 and 10760431
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Architectural Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........5b9456d173c2c3e4c750e2fb12aac085
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1076-0431(2008)14:2(36)