TY - CONF TI - Supplier Quality Surveillance Practices in Construction C1 - Fortaleza, Brazil C3 - 21th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 833 EP - 842 PY - 2013 AU - Alves, Thaís da C. L. AU - Walsh, Kenneth D. AU - Neuman, Yoshua AU - Needy, Kim LaScola AU - Almaian, Rufaidah AD - Assistant Professor, J.R. Filanc Construction Eng. and Mgmt. Program, Dept. of Civil, Constr., and Env. Eng., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, talves@mail.sdsu.edu AD - Professor and Chair J. R. Filanc Construction Eng. and Mgmt. Program, Dept. of Civil, Constr., and Env. Eng., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, kwalsh@mail.sdsu.edu AD - Graduate student, J. R. Filanc Construction Eng. and Mgmt. Program, Dept. of Civil, Constr., and Env. Eng., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, neumanyosh@gmail.com AD - Department Head and 21st Century Professor, Dept. of Industrial Eng., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA, kneedy@uark.edu AD - Ph.D. student, Dept. of Industrial Eng., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA, ralmaian@email.uark.edu ED - Formoso, Carlos Torres ED - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia AB - Construction processes require the marshalling of resources to install components of the intended structure into the desired location based on design documents, with all the necessary structural and service connections. Construction management activities are often conceived as the facilitation of having the right labor and equipment in the proper location with the correct components, at the proper time, to allow safe and cost effective progress of the work. To avoid rework associated with the installation of project components that turn out to be deficient, general contractors deploy a number of efforts to assure the quality of components procured for the project. This paper will provide a summary of Supplier Quality Surveillance (SQS) practices in common use in major construction companies, primarily in Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) delivery projects in the process chemical industry. At present, SQS practices are rooted in an inspection culture, with a series of largely adversarial interventions conducted most commonly either at the supplier’s manufacturing or fabrication facility, or at the construction site itself. The SQS practice will be analyzed from a lean perspective to suggest potential alternative processes to assure supplied components can be installed into the project in an acceptable condition to provide expected client value. KW - Supplier quality surveillance KW - Engineering-Procure-Construct (EPC) KW - value stream KW - manufacturing KW - supply chain management KW - lean construction.. PB - T2 - 21th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2013/07/31 CY - Fortaleza, Brazil L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/867/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/867 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -