Introduction to lean construction
In many countries, construction industry contributes as ignificant part of their economy. Construction industry is one of the most complicated and fragmented industries. It is very unique industry and facing many problems such as low productivity, insufficient quality, poor safety, time over-runs, c...
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Penerbit UTHM
2011
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| Summary: | In many countries, construction industry contributes
as ignificant part of their economy. Construction
industry is one of the most complicated and
fragmented industries. It is very unique industry and
facing many problems such as low productivity, insufficient quality, poor
safety, time over-runs, cost over-run and others. In order to address these
long term problems various tools and methodologies have been developed.
One of the successful approaches adopted to address these problems is lean
construction. Lean construction is a new way to manage construction projects
that makes significant improvements on complex, uncertain and quick projects.
Lean Construction was proposed from Lean philosophies and theories that
have offered lots of benefits to the manufacturing industry. It was founded
by Toyota Motor Company in 1950’s to reduce manufacturing lead times,
eliminate non-value adding activities, and reduce variability. These goals
were obtained by methods such as pull scheduling, simplified operations, and
buffer reduction. Lean is about doing more with less time, inventory, space,
labour, and money. Lean production is a systematic elimination of waste
(i.e. overproduction, waiting, transportation, inventory, and over-processing,
defective units) and the implementation of continuous flow and customer
pull. There are five issues that drive lean construction including cost, quality,
delivery, safety, and morale. The first introduction of “Lean Construction” was
in the year 1992 and was introduced by the Finnish scientist, Lauri Koskela.
In his technical report “Application of the new production philosophy to
construction”, he described the applicability of lean philosophy in construction
industry. This book entitled “Introduction to Lean Construction” is an
effort to provide a comprehensive introduction of Lean philosophy and its
implementation in construction industry based on literature review. |
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