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2016 - Project Management > Lecture 25/26 - Lean and Productivity > Flashcards

Lecture 25/26 - Lean and Productivity Flashcards

1
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What are site managers also known as?

A

Site agents
Contract managers
Construction managers
Building managers

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What are site managers concerns?

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Health and safety
Environmental concerns
Construction plan and methodology

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3
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What are site managers required to do? (major)

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Prepare site
Plan (time frame, budget, specifications)
Oversee project

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4
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What are site managers required to do? (minor)

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Reporting progress
Safety inspections
Checking and prepping reports, designs and drawings
Maintaining quality

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5
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The conventional management organization?

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Employer -> Engineer/consultant -> Main contractor -> nominated and domestic sub-contractors

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6
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What is lean?

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Philosophy to eliminate waste.
Production philosophy to increase productivity.
‘Make what is needed, when it is needed’

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7
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Principles of Lean?

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  • Value (id)
  • Waste (remove)
  • Flow (create)
  • Pull (let customer)
  • Perfection (pursue)
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8
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Total lead time = ?

A

Time of shipping/handling/etc

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9
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Total Added time = ?

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Time of construction/building/etc

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10
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Why add a material line?

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material used and material wasted

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11
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What is the top line of a material line?

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Materials used by process

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12
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What is the bottom line of material line?

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Materials added to product during process.

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13
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How is the material wasted calculated from the bottom and top lines?

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Top line - bottom line = materials wasted.

Used - needed = wasted.

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14
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What does C/T stand for?

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Cycle time

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15
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What does C/O stand for?

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Changeover time

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16
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What does the triangle symbol stand for?

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Inventory

17
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What does a house looking thing stand for?

A

External source (suppliers, customers, etc)

18
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Bolt looking arrow stand for?

A

Electronic information flow

19
Q

Bold arrow stand for?

A

Movement of production material

20
Q

What are the 5 S’s?

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1) Sorting
2) Simplifying
3) Sweeping
4) Standardising
5) Self-discipline

21
Q

How does a spaghetti chart work?

A

From one point to another, each step. The example doesn’t seem to subdivide, stays in one direction.

22
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Steps for process mapping?

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  • Map all steps and wait times
  • Measure dist travelled and cycle time
  • Categorise into value added, non value added but necessary, non value added and non necessary.
  • Eliminate all #3’s + improve #2’s, reduce setup time and do 5 S’s.
23
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What is visual control?

A

Put in plain view all tools, parts, plans, schedules and performance indicators so everyone can see what is happening.

24
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What is the relation between productivity and enterprise size?

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The larger the company the more productive it will be. (because of investments)

25
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What is labour productivity?

A

output/input = work/workers

26
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What is capital productivity?

A

= value added/capital employed

27
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What is time productivity?

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= progress/working hours

28
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Common negative factors from management?

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  • Poor direction of workforce
  • De-motivation of workers
  • Poor coordination of subcontractors
29
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Common groups to cause loss of productivity?

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  • Skills and experience of workforce
  • Management
  • Material availability
  • Job planning
  • Worker motivation
30
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Improving the efficiency of the work?

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  • Develop a network (partners, subcontractors)
  • More effective planning (delivery, placement of equipment/materials)
  • Pre-work (precast etc)
  • Manuals for workers
  • IT systems, comms, software
  • Use breaks for maintenance of tools
  • Back up plan
  • Better comms
  • Quality
  • Pricing
31
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Improving competency of people?

A
  • Improve the level of technical skills
  • Diversity
  • Workforce stability
  • Support and supervision
  • Teambuilding
  • Influences of peer workers
  • Working stress
  • Equality and pride
32
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Training in project management?

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  • Communication
  • Organisational skills
  • Adopt common procedures and best practices
  • Contingency and uncertainty planning
  • Improve analytical skills
  • Develop and promote learning skills
33
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How to strengthen middle management skills for key staff?

A
  • Communication and coordination
  • Learn how to motivate
  • Clear business vision
  • Quality techniques and writing procedures and policies
  • Delegation of responsibility to employees.
  • Continuous improvement
  • Sustainability

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