TY  - CONF
TI  - Importance of Partners in a Challenging Lean Journey
C1  - East Lansing, Michigan, USA
C3  - 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 465
EP  - 474
PY  - 2007
AU  - Jang, Jin Woo
AU  - Kim, Yong-Woo
AU  - Park, Chan Jeong
AU  - Jang, Woo Suk
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ED  - Pasquire, C.L, Christine L.
ED  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia 
AB  - If a general contractor were to implement the Lean system on a construction project, the most important factor to the success of the project would the subcontractor’s ability to implement Lean. The focus of this paper is team building in the project to improve Lean performance. This paper presents GS E&C’s (Engineering and Construction, the general contractor) pilot projects for production control, where Lean construction was implemented in a construction project with its subcontractors. In Korea, GS E&C is one of the leading companies using Lean construction in the construction industry. The findings of GS E&C’s pilot projects indicated that in a construction project, it had had trouble with production controls without subcontractor support. Another project showed that Lean was more successfully implemented when the subcontractor had strong Lean implementation experience and capability. This resulted in a new challenge for the general contractor – how to build relationships with subcontractors and improve their capabilities to implement Lean construction. Active involvement in the entire construction process, enthusiasm for, commitment to, and motivation for implementation, and keeping an open mind about the changes, were all found to be very important when implementing Lean construction by both general contractor and subcontractor. This paper also discusses the prerequisites and barriers to the implementation of Lean with its subcontractor in Korean construction projects. These pilot projects investigate the possibilities of achieving closer alignment between GS E&C and its subcontractors. Such alignment may be achieved by implementing Lean production principles not only within, but across organizational boundaries.
KW  - Lean IT system
KW  - team building
KW  - subcontractor
KW  - and case study.
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T2  - 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2007/07/18
CY  - East Lansing, Michigan, USA
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/496/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/496
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -