TY  - CONF
TI  - Role of a Digital Last Planner® System to Ensuring Safe and Productive Workforce and Workflow in Covid-19 Pandemic
C1  - Lima, Peru
C3  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 87
EP  - 96
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.24928/2021/0102
AU  - McHugh, Kevin
AU  - Patel, Viranj
AU  - Dave, Bhargav
AD  - Associate Director, Mace Technology, Ireland, Kevin.McHugh@macegroup.com, orcid.org/0000- 0002-6017-4585
AD  - Customer Success Manager, VisiLean India Pvt. Ltd, India, viranj.patel@visilean.com,  orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-874X
AD  - CEO, VisiLean Ltd, Finland, bhargav@visilean.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-506X
AB  - To cope with the dynamics of production, construction managers spend a significant amount of time organising the workforce, managing logistics and controlling the flow. Underestimating the process of workforce allocation and management could lead to serious productivity, safety, logistics, and coordination problems. To exacerbate this situation, the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic has created a situation where unorganised workforce allocation and tracking could increase the health and safety risk for the project. The Last Planner® System (LPS) advocates and incorporates processes to sustain flow suggested in Lean Production theory. Hence, the complex job of creating the workforce-flow can potentially be simplified through the LPS proactive planning during lookahead discussions. The paper captures a case study where the same safety and productivity issues were heavily encountered in a project involving multiple trades (15+) and having hundreds of workers struggling in the pandemic situation. Implementing design Science approach, the team has discovered a digital workflow management system that exhibits significant improvement in coordination, control over productivity wastage and safe working environment. This research utilised a digital LPS powered by real-time cloud-based system, capable of actively tracking the agreed workforce boosting productivity whilst keeping the workforce safe and secure.
KW  - Workforce flow planning
KW  - digital
KW  - Last Planner® System
KW  - production planning and  tracking.
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2021/07/14
CY  - Lima, Peru
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1842/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1842
N1  - Export Date: 18 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -