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A pilot study for the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques in the fibre-cement industry
Thesis (M. Eng. (Industrial)) -- University of Stellenbosch, 1991.
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| author | Aggenbach, Eduard Johannes Wiese |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/69103 A pilot study for the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques in the fibre-cement industry Aggenbach, Eduard Johannes Wiese Du Preez, N. D. Sinclair, M. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Department of Industrial Engineering. Everite (Pty) Limited -- Management Production management -- Japan Production management -- South Africa Fiber-reinforced concrete -- Management Dissertations -- Industrial engineering UCTD Thesis (M. Eng. (Industrial)) -- University of Stellenbosch, 1991. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: World Class Manufacturing(WCM) is a set of management strategies developed in Japan. These strategies have helped Japan to become the world leaders in manufacturing. This is obvious when the quality, price, availability and range of Japanese products are compared to those produced elsewhere. This thesis consists of two sections, namely, a literature survey discussing the various components of WCM, and a description of an application of some of these techniques. WCM consists of four seperate building blocks, namely, Just-in- Time(JIT), Total Quality Control(TQC), Total Worker Involvement and Total Prod11ctive Maintenance. These building blocks are discussed in the literature survey. The reason for their importance, their different components and their inter- relationships are discussed. Suggestions are also given on how to implement them. Some of these techniques were implemented in a fibre cement sheet plant and this is explained in the second part of the thesis. The most important application was reducing setup times on one of the machines. In this pilot exercise, setup times were reduced to 30% of their previous times. The author is confident that it can reduced even further. An additional 10% should be the next goal. This makes the complete application of WCM in the plant a very real possibility. Finally suggestions are made on how to implement the rest of the pilot study. Once this is completed, the management of the specific plant will hopefully consider implementing WCM techniques throughout the plant. Master 2012-08-27T12:26:55Z 2012-08-27T12:26:55Z 1991 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/69103 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 239 pages : illustrations. application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Everite (Pty) Limited -- Management Production management -- Japan Production management -- South Africa Fiber-reinforced concrete -- Management Dissertations -- Industrial engineering UCTD Aggenbach, Eduard Johannes Wiese A pilot study for the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques in the fibre-cement industry |
| title | A pilot study for the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques in the fibre-cement industry |
| title_full | A pilot study for the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques in the fibre-cement industry |
| title_fullStr | A pilot study for the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques in the fibre-cement industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | A pilot study for the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques in the fibre-cement industry |
| title_short | A pilot study for the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques in the fibre-cement industry |
| title_sort | pilot study for the application of world class manufacturing techniques in the fibre cement industry |
| topic | Everite (Pty) Limited -- Management Production management -- Japan Production management -- South Africa Fiber-reinforced concrete -- Management Dissertations -- Industrial engineering UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/69103 |
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