Application of LEAN tool "line balancing" to determine the productivity of workforce in activities of plastering and internal detailing in two-story houses made of masonry
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Hurtado-Figueroa, Oswaldo | 2018-11-26
The finishing work of construction represents an aggregated value that makes the
difference when a client is deciding to buy a house. The stipulated costs for
plastering and detail activities for houses, in occasions, surpasses 30% of the total
value of the construction work, considerable costs that require constant control
and supervision both in the analysis and the execution of the construction. The
implementation of the LEAN philosophy in this activity is not commonly
implemented due to the lack of knowledge of the tools that this method provides.
This research shows the implementation of line balancing, as a LEAN tool, in the
plastering and detailing activities for two-story masonry houses, constructed in the
housing project Callejas del Este which took place in the city of Cucuta,
Colombia. The implementation of this tool contemplated the analysis of execution
times of the work crew, the results were synthesized in tables for better
interpretation and conclusions of interest were developed for the improvement of
the observed processes and activities.
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