IMPLEMENTATION OF LEAN SIX SIGMA IN INDIAN CONSTRUCTION Ravi Jain (2013CET2150) DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI May 2015 IMPLEMENTATION OF LEAN SIX SIGMA IN INDIAN CONSTRUCTION Submitted by Ravi Jain In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree in MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY In Construction Engineering and Management DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI May 2015 CERTIFICATE This
Introduction Construction industry can be defined as the national economic departments are engaged in land construction, construction, alteration and repair of buildings, buildings and other real estate. The construction is includes the involvement construction, the change, or repair wide range activity high dangerous industry. The example including the residence construct, the bridge erects, the roadway shop, the excavation, the demolition and the large-scale drawing work. The construction worker is
grew since independence in 1957 to date with multispectral economy based on services and manufacturing. Despite its small contribution to GDP, Malaysian construction industry is among the sectors which received lot of demand due to the primary concern to fulfill the needs and insufficiency of infrastructures. Hence, Malaysian construction industry becomes crucial due to its role as a leading indicator and determinant of domestic performance by providing the physical infrastructure for industrial production
of each staff in construction industry and it is related to his association with surrenders whether it is people, machinery, equipment, resources, methods of operation or others. Safety is an established procedure that aims on accidents and work-related injuries prevention, which are not less importance than the production of work and its quality and cost. It has been acknowledged that 25–40 percent of fatalities in the world’s occupational settings are contributed by construction (ILO 2005). Furthermore
The term 'advanced development technology ' in construction industry covers an extensive variety of present day techniques and practices that envelop the most recent improvements in materials technology, design methodology, amount studying, offices management, administrations, structural examination and design, and management skills used in construction industry. Technological advancements in different fields such as medical industry, business industry, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering
activities that create value for product/service and those which do not. This helps to assign and allocate resources and capital to valued products and inherent activities in a much better way. • Product Profitability Analysis: Capital and resources can also be effectively assigned when the profitability can be analyzed product wise. So the products/services which are giving the most profits should be given more importance and the other products should be given less importance or dropped as per the
My career is my passion, and it holds my fullest devotion, dedication and commitment. I belong to the field of 'Construction' which had been the dream I had, the obsession in me and the long term desire that had lingered in me for a long while. And finally, when I got into this, I could give nothing from me but the best. To add more value to the same, I have decided to pursue my Graduate Diploma from Unitec Institute of Technology which would further help me to expand my knowledge horizon and skill
THEORETICAL REVIEW ON THE FACTORS CAUSING COST OVERRUN IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN MALAYSIA Abstract This study examines previous literature on construction projects cost with the specific aim of determining the frequently observed causes of cost overruns in construction projects. Cost overrun is one of the major problems in construction projects. Cost overrun is frequently observed in almost every construction projects. This cost overrun in construction projects occurs due to various reasons and many researchers
the non- value adding activities or wastes within the construction processes. This paper aims to investigate the critical factors affecting the quality as well as causing the waste within the construction of a road project. In an attempt to improve the quality and limiting the extent of non-value adding activities. The quantitative study approach has been adopted to identify the attributes contributing a number of quality problems (deviations and variations) and waste within the construction processes
schedule or degree of difficulty in a project, while detrimental variation order is one issued that negatively impacts the client’s value or project performance. They also ranked the effects of variation orders on different project performance factors, which are time overrun, cost overrun, disputes between parties and the contractor, additional specialist equipment/personnel, complaints of parties to the contract, quality standard enhanced, degradation of quality standards, optimum cost reduction