TY  - CONF
TI  - Improving Work Flow Reliability
C1  - Berkeley, California, USA
C3  - 7th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 275
EP  - 286
PY  - 1999
AU  - Ballard, Glenn
AD  - Director of Research, Lean Construction Institute, and Lecturer, Construction Engineering and Management Program, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 4536 Fieldbrook Road, Oakland, CA 94619, 510/530-8656, FAX 510/530-2048, ballard@ce.berkeley.edu
AB  - Improving work flow reliability is important for the productivity of linked production units, and consequently for project cost and duration. One measure of work flow reliability is PPC, the percentage of planned assignments completed. A proposal is made for experiments to increase PPC. Four actions are proposed and explained. Only the fourth action, underloading resources relative to capacity, is developed in detail in this paper. The potential impacts of improving PPC on project cost and schedule are described.
KW  - Capacity
KW  - decomposition
KW  - design process
KW  - explosion
KW  - flow
KW  - last planner
KW  - lean construction
KW  - load
KW  - productivity
KW  - project planning and control
KW  - reliability
KW  - throughput
KW  - variability.
PB  - 
T2  - 7th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 1999/07/26
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/62/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/62
N1  - Export Date: 23 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -