TY  - CONF
TI  - Use of Complaint Records of Maintenance Departments for Continuous Improvement 
C1  - Berkeley, California, USA
C3  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 1009
EP  - 1020
PY  - 2020
DO  - 10.24928/2020/0099
AU  - Bazzan, Jordana
AU  - Formoso, Carlos Torres
AU  - Echeveste, Márcia
AD  - PhD Candidate, Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, jordanabazzan@gmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8630
AD  - Professor, Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, formoso@ufrgs.br, orcid.org/0000-0002-4772-3746
AD  - Professor, Postgraduate Program in Industrial Engineering (PPGEP), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, echeveste@producao.ufrgs.br, orcid.org/0000-0003-1084-0495
AB  - Housebuilding companies are required to deal with customer complaints in the warranty period. Some of them have maintenance departments that make necessary repairs in existing buildings. Due to this service, companies accumulate records on the quality of projects, which can contribute to the understanding of occurrence defects and their causes, supporting continuous improvement. However, deficiencies in information management can make it difficult to use complaints records as a feedback source. The literature does not discuss solutions for managing information related to customer complaints, nor the use of performance metrics that can effectively provide feedback from quality problems identified. This study has two contributions: a classification structure for the types of defects identified from complaints, and indicators generated by fault tree analysis. The study was carried out in the maintenance department of a Brazilian housebuilding company. The evidence sources used were: complaint database analysis, discussion seminars, and interviews with the company representatives. The proposed solutions resulted in improvements regarding the structure and level of detail of the records. Also, the fault tree analysis made it possible to identify the most critical quality problems as well as to evaluate the level of impact of each one in project quality. 
KW  - Quality
KW  - Continuous Improvement
KW  - Waste
KW  - Complaint
KW  - Fault Tree Analysis.
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2020/07/06
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1820/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1820
N1  - Export Date: 29 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -