Variability is a well-known problem in construction projects, which leads to the general deterioration of project performance. During the last decade, the Last Planner System (LPS), a production planning and control system ...

The global economy with well-structured players, short product life cycle, brings to the organizations the need to develop products with limited time and resources, associated to crescent customer expectation for high ...

Buffers have been commonly used as a production strategy to protect construction processes from the negative impact of variability. Construction practitioners and researchers have proposed several buffering approaches for ...

With an ever faster, more competitive market, and more demanding consumers who cannot tolerate product failures that are backed by consumer protection and protection laws, companies need to strive to improve the reliability ...

With an ever faster, more competitive market, and more demanding consumers who cannot tolerate product failures that are backed by consumer protection and protection laws, companies need to strive to improve the reliability ...

Events, incidents, accidents, failures, production losses, life reduction of equipment, casualties, and insurance coverage are all critical topics with respect to safety, reliability, and economics. This paper identifies ...

This work aims to propose a maintenance strategy of an industrial battery powered pistol type nutrunner, based on a combination between reliability analysis and machine capability tests. At first the main concepts of bolted ...