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P-0703-03-A |
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By Matt Carpenter - August 03 - Present
Committee: Dr. Tulio Sulbaran (Chair)
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| Project Objective |
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objective of this project is to implement a set of procedures
derived from research of total quality management programs,
kaizen, ISO 9000 techniques and similar ideas and apply them
to a the concrete division of Yates Construction. The same practices
that have been found to improve productivity in other industries
will be fine-tuned to meet the needs of the construction industry.
Implementing total quality management programs and similar ideas
are not new concepts, as these methods have been around since
Deming first introduced them in the 1950s in Japan (Chase 1993).
Even though that these approaches have been successful, in improving
productivity in manufacturing companies, (Cheser 1998) construction
companies from around the world have only recently begun limited
use of these principles (Henry 2000, Jaafari 1996, Dissanayak
& Kumaraswamy 2000, Fong & Pheng 2002, Al-Atiq &
Bubshait 1999, Bray 1996). "However, there still exist
significant barriers to implementing TQM in the construction
industry (Lahndt 1999)." These barriers are areas that
need to be overcome in order for TQM procedures to have a significant
impact on productivity in the construction industry. This project
will research ideas that will overcome the barriers and have
been proven to increase productivity in other industries.
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| Abstract |
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Research of these different topics will be conducted and ideas
from them will be integrated to form a set of procedures. One
area that will be further researched is teamwork, which is the
basis of the Japanese method of quality management called
kaizen, and has "resulted in dramatic gains in productivity
(Cheser1998)." Another area to be investigated for future
procedures in construction will be ISO 9000 techniques. In
construction companies from other countries that have
implemented a form of ISO reported improvements in productivity
(Dissanayaka & Kumaraswamy 2000). These are two examples of how
total quality management techniques have proven to improve
productivity, once these techniques are tailored to the
construction industry, they will be implemented in a real
construction setting. |
| Project Results |
| The expected results of this project will be a
set of procedures derived from a combination of ISO 9000 techniques,
kaizen methods and other total quality management practices
that have been modified to correspond with the needs of the
construction industry. This set of procedures, upon completion
will have been field tested and evaluated in the concrete division
of construction.
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Last Modification:
Thursday July 28, 2005 04:07 PM
Originally Developed by: Dr. Tulio Sulbaran - Email:
Tulio.Sulbaran@usm.edu
- Nov 2004
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