TY - CONF TI - Line of Balance – Is It a Synthesis of Lean Production Principles as Applied to Site Programming of Works? C1 - Oslo, Norway C3 - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 703 EP - 714 PY - 2014 AU - Moura, Rafael de Sousa Leal Martins AU - Monteiro, José Márcio Feitosa AU - Heineck, Luiz Fernando Mählmann AD - Master Student, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, rafaelleall@hotmail.com AD - Civil Engineer, Fortaleza, CE, marcioccap@gmail.com AD - Professor, State University of Ceará - UECE, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, freitas8@terra.com.br ED - Kalsaas, Bo Terje ED - Koskela, Lauri ED - Saurin, Tarcisio Abreu AB - Evidence on the use of Line of Balance as a scheduling technique already exists in the Brazilian construction industry since the 80’. More recently it has been associated with Lean Construction applications, especially as tool for tactical planning of works. This conceptual paper discusses how line of balance can be taken not just as a straightforward graphical device to depict site programming in long, medium and short terms but also as an appropriate graphical tool to represent, induce and make self-evident the application of several Lean Production ideas like takt time, buffers transparency, integrated planning of long, medium and short term, minimization of production and transfer batches, PDCA, production levelling, inventory minimizing, pull production and parallel operations, among others. Each of these concepts is illustrated using line of balance displays. The work concludes that Line of Balance is akin to Lean Production and Lean Production is very well represented by Line of Balance diagrams, aiming at further discussions on this conceptual synthesis (lean is line and line is lean). KW - Line of balance KW - building schedules KW - lean construction KW - lean conceptual synthesis KW - graphical communication of lean principles. PB - T2 - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2014/06/25 CY - Oslo, Norway L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1047/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1047 N1 - Export Date: 23 April 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -