Alignment of Leagile Strategies With Off-site Manufacturing: Application of ANP in Australian Housing Supply

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Mostafa, Sherif
Dumrak, Jantanee
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2014
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The supply response of Australian housing has not been commensurate with the growing demand. Four main factors affecting the Australian housing supply are house completion time, cost of finished house, customer preferences and level of skilled labor. Off-site manufacturing (OSM) could become a key innovation for the future of Australian house building as it provides capacity in meeting the growing housing demand, green construction and lesser requirements for labor force. OSM is a modern construction method in which house building components are produced in offsite factories and then transported to the construction site to be assembled. The supply responsiveness of OSM can be enhanced by employing lean and agile concepts. In this study, four leagile strategies are introduced to facilitate decision making based on different combinations of housing supply factors. This paper presents a matching of the four strategies with the four studied factors in the Australian house building using Analytical Network Process (ANP). The data employed for the ANP model derived from the actual specifications of 258 houses built in five Australian States by five major house builders in Australia. The results from the ANP model show the suitability in applying each strategy under different degrees influenced by the factors tested.

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP)

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Mostafa, S; Dumrak, J, Alignment of Leagile Strategies With Off-site Manufacturing: Application of ANP in Australian Housing Supply, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2014