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Saturday, 19 May 2012 03:53

It rolls high-rise buildings on the tape

The construction industry is towards ever more industrial construction methods. The family business Lind backs Construction is leading the way, but are not stopping there. Here is the continuous improvement in force.

Plumber Frederick Lund says he won’t get it to work. But this day it would not move and he is beginning to get wild.

- I am simply compelled to depart from the new methods. I have to do it my own way, "he says.

Usually does the new standard approaches to the boards and chipboard. But this time, Fredrik Lund received any unusual warped and wrapping studs, as he and the PVC tubes to assemble a floor module.

- The standardized methods work certainly helpful when working with metal parts that are within close tolerances. But the warped and wrapping wood studs, it is another thing, he sputters.

Fredrik Lund are working on the line on the floor Lind backs Building in Pitea. He is a sewer charge of the group, which is considered especially good, a group designated as a pilot or test group when the new Japanese-inspired methods are introduced to the eight lines in the wooden factory.

- We have agreed with the consultant earlier. It is possible that we do it again. But I wonder what experience he has of cleft planks, "says Fredrik Lund.

The consultant, he is annoyed named Torbjorn Engberg and comes from the Japanese-Swedish company, JMAC, Japan Management Association Consultants, which has its Scandinavian headquarters in Gothenburg.

- Sure, it's a big change for them on Lind backs. A challenge for the workers in the factory as well as for the engineers, product developers, vendors and some of the suppliers of windows, doors and other inputs, "said Torbjorn Engberg.

If Fredrik Lund had been on the assembly of a car factory and got a component that can barely be working with - then he pulled the Andon cord or Toyota and tvarnitat flow on the line.

But now there is no Toyota string or stop buttons on Lind backs - not yet. The lopsided rule is still an "anomaly", which you enter in one column on the white notice board which now stands near the floor line.

It is such differences that drive "Kaizen", the constant improvement, forward. These are the errors you're after.

If no one finds any problems, there is nothing in the process that needs to be tightened. Therefore, Fred Lund and the other artisans find at least two deviations per workstation each day.

- There are at least as much waste in the civil service as at the factory and on building sites. They like doing drawings, assembly instructions; purchased inputs are often responsible for errors in the factory or construction sites, "said Torbjorn Engberg.

The company aims to increase annual turnover from the current 450-700 million in three years. In that case it is not enough to spin the one or the other process. The entire company needs to breathe lean and the main suppliers have to improve themselves so that they fail to cooperate with Lind backs.

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