TY - CONF TI - Lean Diagnosis for Chilean Construction Industry: Towards More Sustainable Lean Practices and Tools C1 - Perth, Australia C3 - 23rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 642 EP - 651 PY - 2015 AU - Salvatierra1, José L. AU - Alarcón, Luis F. AU - López, Angela AU - Velásquez, Ximena AD - Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Av. Ecuador 3659, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile, Phone +56 2 27182818, jose.salvatierra@usach.cl AD - Professor, Department of Construction Engineering and Management, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Edificio San Agustín 3er Piso, Macul, Santiago, Chile, Phone +56 2 2354 4244, lalarcon@ing.puc.cl AD - Project Consultant, Production Management Consultants - GEPRO, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Edificio Mide UC 3er Piso, Macul, Santiago, Chile, Phone +56 2 2354 7050, alopez@gepro.cl AD - Project Consultant, Production Management Consultants - GEPRO, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Edificio Mide UC 3er Piso, Macul, Santiago, Chile, Phone +56 2 2354 7050, dvelasquez@gepro.cl ED - Seppänen, Olli ED - González, Vicente A. ED - Arroyo, Paz AB - Construction companies face important challenges to implement and sustain Lean methods, and they need to periodically assess the state of their implementation efforts. This paper presents the results of a collaborative initiative from seven Chilean construction companies to diagnose the implementation state of some aspects of Lean organizations: Philosophy, Culture and Technology. The diagnosis was carried out using data from four different tools: interviews with managers, workshops with Last Planner implementers, visits to projects and planning meetings, and an organizational survey to validate previous results. Despite 90% of managers believe that Lean is central to enhancing their businesses, important barriers to sustain practices were detected such as Last Planner (LP), which was identified as a common tool among those companies. Thus, the most important aspects observed could be summarized as lack of certainty, lack of training, and very limited use of other tools; moreover, important differences were identified with regards to the level of LP implementations. The diagnosis is expected to constitute a base to generate improved company strategies to implement and sustain Lean construction practices, with emphasis in the development of people as a core of Lean organizations. KW - Continuous improvement KW - Last Planner System KW - Lean construction KW - Lookahead PB - T2 - 23rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2015/07/29 CY - Perth, Australia L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1208/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1208 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -