Panel Stacking, Panel Sequencing, and Stack Locating in Residential Construction: Lean Approach

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• Personal Author:
  Guo C ; Shewchuk JP
• Description:
  A current trend in residential construction is the use of prefabricated wall panels. Panels are manufactured at a factory, then arranged into stacks for transporting to the construction site, where they are assembled. Current approaches to planning panelized construction are focused on stacking and transport efficiency, with little consideration given to assembly. This results in excessive panel material handling during construction, increased construction lead time, and increased risk of worker overload and/or injury. This paper proposes a lean approach to panel stacking, panel sequencing, and stack locating, where panels within each stack form a continuous structure and are erected via continuous flow. The objectives are to minimize the quantity of stacks, panel material handling distance, and the work required to position and brace panels-panel interference is ignored. Few researchers have addressed this problem: a single algorithm has been reported, and this only works for certain building shapes and may provide infeasible solutions. The proposed approach and algorithm result in improved performance, have no shape restrictions, and always provide feasible solutions. Additionally, computational experiments show that the algorithm outperforms methods being employed in the construction industry today. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Engineering Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Wall Panels Construction Industry Construction Management Construction Materials Construction Workers Injury Prevention Lean Construction Materials Handling
• ISSN:
  0733-9364
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  138
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061993
• Citation:
  J Constr Eng Manage 2012 Sep; 138(9):1006-1016
• Contact Point Address:
  John P. Shewchuk, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Grado Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
• Email:
  shewchuk@vt.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040915
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
• End Date:
  20100630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d12280e94619fe93525ae8c73629e93ac9193b66e44c891fb0137cd00a4c49c2e2681c0aeb87c18948196cd0d653f799263cc858cbdb344d6c37831da3f3c3ee
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225321/cdc_225321_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 699.87 KB ]