21th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Fortaleza, Brazil - 2013

Last Planner System Innovation Efforts on Requirements for Digital Management System

Rein Terje Thorstensen1, Bo Terje Kalsaas2, John Skaar3 & Sigmund Jensen4

1Senior Lecturer, Dept for Engineering Science, University of Agder, Jon Lilletunsvei 9, 4879 Grimstad, NORWAY, Phone +47 37 23 30 00, [email protected]
2Professor, Dept for Working life and Innovation, University of Agder, Jon Lilletunsvei 9, 4879 Grimstad, NORWAY, Phone +47 37 23 30 00, [email protected]
3Lean Construction Manager at Skanska Norway, Skanska, Rigedalen 15,4626 Kristiansand, NORWAY, Phone +47 45 86 91 78, [email protected]
4Supply chain manager at Skanska Norway, Skanska, Rigedalen 15,4626 Kristiansand, NORWAY, Phone + 47 98 21 02 76, [email protected]

Abstract

The plans and on-going efforts of a major Scandinavian construction company to digitalise their LPS-inspired planning processes have provided the focus in this paper. A management system designed to reduce uncertainty by ensuring that soundness criterions are met, is proposed and discussed. The proposal involves predefining “process trains” and introducing tollgates and a traffic light system to visualize the soundness status. Our conclusion is that such a system is possible and desirable provided that the user threshold is low and that the system is low-maintenance. The latter is achieved by as far as possible making it an automatic part of other, already existing processes. If successful, the system could also provide additional support for decision-making in relation to principals and engineering issues.

Keywords

Last planner system (LPS), digitalising, tollgates for sound activities, visualising

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Thorstensen, R. T., Kalsaas, B. T., Skaar, J. & Jensen, S.. (2013). Last Planner System Innovation Efforts on Requirements for Digital Management System. In Formoso, C. T., & Tzortzopoulos, P. (Eds.), 21th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (pp. 669–678).

Shortened reference for use in IGLC papers:

Thorstensen, R. T., Kalsaas, B. T., Skaar, J. & Jensen, S.. (2013). Last Planner System Innovation Efforts on Requirements for Digital Management System. IGLC21.

 

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