A quantitative analysis of the implementation of the last planner system in Brazil

13th International Group for Lean Construction Conference: Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 413-420

  Bortolazza, Rodrigo Cremonesi ^a   Costa, Dayana Bastos ^b   Formoso, Carlos Torres ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UFRGS/NORIE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Data mining; Last Planner; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL BUILDING; CONSTRUCTION SITES; DATA-MINING TOOLS; GOOD PRACTICES; INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS; INNOVATION RESEARCH; LAST PLANNER; LAST PLANNER SYSTEM; LOOK-AHEAD; LOW-INCOME HOUSING; MARKET SECTORS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL; QUALITATIVE DATA; RESEARCH STUDIES; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; WORK PACKAGES;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84866054798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. Alarcón, L.F., Grillo, A., Freire, J. & Diethelm, S. (2001). "Learning from collaborative Benchmarking in the construction industry". Proceedings of the 9th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Singapore.
2. Alves, T.C.L. (2000). "Diretrizes para a Gestäo dos Fluxos Físicos em Canteiros de Obras: proposta baseada em estudo de caso". Porto Alegre: Post-graduate program of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. M.Sc.Dissertation.
3. Ballard, G. (2000). "The Last Planner System of Production Control". Birmingham: School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Birmingham. Ph.D. Thesis.
4. Ballard, G. & Howell, G.A. (2003). "An Update on Last Planner". Proceedings of the 11th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Virginia.
5. Ballard, G. & Howell, G. (1997). "Shielding Production: An Essential Step in Production Control". Technical Report No.97-1, Construction and Engineering Management Program, University of California, p.102-109.
6. Beatham, S., Anumba, C., Thorpe, T.&Hedges, I. (2004) "KPIs: A critical appraisal of their use in construction". Benchmarking: An International Journal, v. 11, n. 1, p. 93-117.
7. Bernardes, M.M.S. & Formoso, C.T. (2002). "Contributions to the Evaluation of the Production Planning and Control Systems in Buildings Companies". Proceedings of the 10th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Gramado, Brazil.
8. Costa, D. B et al., (2004). "Performance measurement systems for benchmarking in the brazilian construction industry", Proceedings of the Globalization and Construction, CIB W107 2004, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
9. Downing, D., Clark, J. (1997)."Business Statistics". Barron's Educational Series.
10. Han, J. and Kamber, M. (2001). "Data Mining: concepts and techniques". Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
11. Marchesan, P.R.C. and Formoso, C.T. (2001). "Cost Management and Production Control for Construction Companies". Proceedings of the 9th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Singapore.
12. Oliveira, K.A.Z. (1999). "Desenvolvimento e Implementaçä o de um Sistema de Indicadores no processo de Planejamento e Controle da Produçäo: proposta baseada em um estudo de caso". Porto Alegre: Post-graduate program of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. M.Sc.Dissertation.
13. Ramírez, R.R., Alarcón, L.F.C. & Knights, P. "Benchmarking Systems for Evaluating Management Practices in the Construction Industry". Journal of Management in Engineering. July, 2004. p.110-117.
14. Russell, N. and Norvig, P. (2003). "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach". Prentice Hall.
15. Soares, A.C., Bernardes, M.M.S. & Formoso, C.T. (2002). "Improving the Production Planning and Control System in a Building Company: Contributions After Stabilization". Proceedings of the 10th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Gramado, Brazil.
16. Soibelman, L. and Kim, H. (2002). "Data Preparation Process for Construction Knowledge Generation through Knowledge Discovery in Databases". Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. January, 2002. p.39-48.
17. Watson, I. (1997). "Applying Case-Based Reasoning: Techniques for Enterprise Systems". Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.