TY  - CONF
TI  - Repeatable, Scalable, Global Implementation of Optimized Cycle-Time Flow (OCF)
C1  - Lille, France
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
SP  - 1138
EP  - 1148
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0117
AU  - Gabai, Doron S.
AU  - Kennard, Nikita S.
AU  - Sacks, Rafael
AU  - Miera, Mark K.
AU  - Cloyd, Tabitha D.
AD  - PMP, PgMP, LCI Israel Chairman, Strategic Planner, Intel Corporation, AZ Construction, USA.  doron.gabai@intel.com, https://www.lci-israel.org/, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8297-2476
AD  - OCF Research Specialist, Intel Corporation, AZ Construction, USA. nikita.kennard@intel.com
AD  - Professor, Virtual Construction Laboratory, Faculty of Civil and Env. Eng. Technion – Israel Institute of  Technology, cvsacks@technion.ac.il, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9427-5053 
AD  - PMP, Senior Director of Construction, Intel Corporation, AZ Construction, USA. mark.k.miera@intel.com
AD  - Director of Construction, Intel Corporation, AZ Construction, USA. tabitha.d.cloyd@intel.com
AB  - Optimized Cycle-Time Flow (OCF) is a comprehensive lean construction approach to portfolio, process, and operations management of design, demolition, and tool installation projects. It comprises seven principles which teams can implement in sequence to align resources across a portfolio of projects, remove constraints, and plan for continuous uninterrupted execution of each project once it has started. Beginning in 2018, it has been applied to increasingly larger portfolios of projects in an expanding set of Intel facilities, generating consistently reliable results with up to 50% reductions in project cycle-time. A plethora of quantitative data collected through action research over five years indicate that the characteristics of OCF make it more resilient and persistent than many lean construction interventions, overcoming the various barriers to implementation discussed in the literature. The results indicate that OCF principles, vertical integration, leadership, and education make OCF repeatable and scalable. Applying these features to lean construction implementations may help practitioners achieve better results. 
KW  - Action Research
KW  - Constraint Management
KW  - Last Planner® System
KW  - Optimized Cycle-Time Flow  (OCF)
KW  - Production Control
KW  - Strategic Integration & Planning
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
DA  - 2023/06/26
CY  - Lille, France
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2061/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2061
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -