Cost Reduction Through Value Engineering Practices in Manufacturing Assembly

Maksud, M. I.; Yusof, Mohd Sallehuddin

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“…Moreover, this research has investigated solutions to overcome these barriers and improve the application of VE in construction projects. This study suggests the following prioritized solutions to enhance the application of VE in Saudi Arabia's construction industry: (1) adding VE courses to engineering college programs, (2) adding VE incentive clauses to construction contracts, (3) adding VE clauses to Public Works Contracts, (4) educating clients on the benefits of VE, (5) providing VE training courses with experts, (6) holding VE workshops with key stakeholders, (7) selecting well-trained VE team members for better results, and (8) assigning a VE expert to lead the workshops.…”

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“…Several studies have defined the VE approach as "a management tool to achieve essential functions of a product, service or project with the lowest cost" [2]. Additionally, VE is defined as a "powerful methodology for reducing costs while improving performance and quality requirements" [3]. Furthermore, VE is a structured and analytical process that aims to achieve value for money by providing all necessary functions at the lowest cost consistent with the required levels of quality and performance [4].…”

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Value Engineering Adoption’s Barriers and Solutions: The Case of Saudi Arabia’s Construction Industry

Alhumaid,

Bin Mahmoud,

Almohsen

2024

Buildings

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Several developing countries around the globe have launched their future visions, which include concrete strategic plans that involve many kinds of mega-construction projects. One common goal across these visions is to increase the efficiency of construction projects’ huge expenditures using recent sustainable, practical engineering tools, such as the value engineering (VE) approach. Although the VE approach has been around for a few years now, some barriers prevent the popularity of its application in different construction projects. This research investigates the barriers to adopting VE through a systematic literature review. This study has categorized the application barriers using thematic analysis under three main categories: barriers related to practitioners’ knowledge and background, barriers associated with the behavior of practitioners towards VE, and barriers related to the implementation of VE. Moreover, this research has investigated solutions to overcome these barriers and improve the application of VE in construction projects. Saudi Arabia’s construction industry is used as a case study. A survey was distributed to Saudi construction industry practitioners using the snowballing technique to evaluate the criticality of the found barriers to adopting VE and the best strategic solutions to overcome these barriers using the importance–performance analysis (IPA) approach. Based on the results of this study we have specifically recommended including a VE course in college engineering programs and an incentive clause in construction contracts to encourage VE application on construction projects at the top of the list of proposed solutions. Finally, defining the criticality of barriers and the effectiveness of solutions will help enhance the application of VE and sustainability practices in the Saudi Arabian construction industry and around the globe.

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Value Engineering Adoption’s Barriers and Solutions: The Case of Saudi Arabia’s Construction Industry

Alhumaid,

Bin Mahmoud,

Almohsen

2024

Buildings

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Implementing value engineering study for temporary facilities

Trigunarsyah

Hamzeh

2017

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal E

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Value engineering (VE) is a technique for reducing costs while keeping the required function, and improves performance and quality. It can be applied in many areas. In construction projects, VE is typically carried out for the project itself, but not for mobilisation and temporary facilities. For large and remote construction projects, the cost of mobilisation and temporary facilities is considerably high. So, a VE study could lead to a significant saving in the construction costs. This paper provides evidence of the significant saving that resulted by implementing VE for temporary facilities of a construction project. A case study of temporary facilities for a large power plant project is presented, and includes the VE steps and actual results. The main findings of this study suggest that the implementation of VE study for temporary facilities of construction projects could lead to a significant cost reduction, particularly in mega projects and remote projects

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An Investigation onto Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Printing Plate of Multiple Functional Solid Line by Flexographic

Maksud

Yusof

Jamil

2013

AMR

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Recently low cost production is vital to produce printed electronics by roll to roll manufacturing printing process like a flexographic. Flexographic has a high speed technique which commonly used for printing onto large area flexible substrates. However, the minimum feature sizes achieved with roll to roll printing processes, such as flexographic is in the range of fifty microns. The main contribution of this limitation is photopolymer flexographic plate unable to be produced finer micron range due to film that made by Laser Ablation Mask (LAMs) technology not sufficiently robust and consequently at micron ranges line will not be formed on the printing plate. Hence, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is used instead of photopolymer. Printing trial had been conducted and multiple solid lines successfully printed for below fifty microns line width with no interference between two adjacent lines of the printed images.

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Cost Reduction Through Value Engineering Practices in Manufacturing Assembly

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Value Engineering Adoption’s Barriers and Solutions: The Case of Saudi Arabia’s Construction Industry

Value Engineering Adoption’s Barriers and Solutions: The Case of Saudi Arabia’s Construction Industry

Implementing value engineering study for temporary facilities

An Investigation onto Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Printing Plate of Multiple Functional Solid Line by Flexographic

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