TY  - CONF
TI  - Exploring the Opportunities and Barriers of Using Prefabricated House Components
C1  - Lima, Peru
C3  - 19th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
PY  - 2011
AU  - Bildsten, Louise
AD  - Phd student, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University,  Sweden, Phone: +46 13 281547, louise.bildsten@liu.se
ED  - Rooke, John
ED  - Dave, Bhargav
AB  - To satisfy customers’ desires with a maintained efficiency of the production process is a challenge for many house construction companies. Houses are one-off projects with a production process characterized by variability and complexity that often lead to unpredicted costs. Prefabricated component solutions could possibly solve these issues through modularization, mass customization and delayed product differentiation. The purpose of this paper is to explore the opportunities and barriers to use prefabricated house components. Interviews were conducted with two industrial house manufacturers to pinpoint these opportunities and barriers. The impact of this research may have value for house construction companies considering the use of prefabricated house components. The use of these components may lead to benefits such as shorter lead-time, higher quality, decreased complexity in coordination and reduced risks of production failures. Moreover, this research may be valuable to house component suppliers in the business development of their product offers to industrial house builders.
KW  - Prefabrication
KW  - mass customization
KW  - house components
KW  - process improvement
PB  - 
T2  - 19th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2011/07/13
CY  - Lima, Peru
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1100/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1100
N1  - Export Date: 18 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -