Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation

The success of lean principles in manufacturing and the benefits arising from its use is one of the main motivations for adopting lean principles in construction .The lean construction strives for the same goals as lean production, namely to eliminate waste and to maximize value. One of the basic co...

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Main Authors: Shahin Dabirian, Seyed. Rohollah Ghorashi
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Iranian Society of Structrual Engineering (ISSE) 2019-02-01
Series:Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.jsce.ir/article_87075_322f481973586fe347b530fc87102b0b.pdf
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description The success of lean principles in manufacturing and the benefits arising from its use is one of the main motivations for adopting lean principles in construction .The lean construction strives for the same goals as lean production, namely to eliminate waste and to maximize value. One of the basic concepts in lean construction is called “perfection”, meaning that efforts made to decrease waste in every single phase of the projects has no limit and the enhancements resulted from implementation of lean principles must always be retained and improved. This paper pays attention to application of lean thinking in one of construction fields as a case study. Another aim could be mentioned as continuity of resulted enhancements caused by application of the theory by following perfection principle. To achieve and investigate the results, discrete event simulation for making activity under-study cycle model has been used. The case study in this research is foam concrete process in execution phase. The required data for building the simulation model has been collected using work and time study technique. Primary results show that different kinds of waste in a construction process can be reduced via adopting lean construction principles using computer simulation. The results obtained from applying lean principles demonstrate enhancement in performance of foam concrete cycle up to 15% and decrease in time up to 36%.
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spelling doaj.art-96c93b14231b45b88f82fe0ac3b358202022-12-21T19:52:24ZfasIranian Society of Structrual Engineering (ISSE)Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering2476-39772538-26162019-02-01549311110.22065/jsce.2017.84607.119687075Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulationShahin Dabirian0Seyed. Rohollah Ghorashi1Dept. of architectural engineering, Architecture and Urban Design School, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.Dept. of Construction Engineering and Management, Islamic Azad University Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Iran.The success of lean principles in manufacturing and the benefits arising from its use is one of the main motivations for adopting lean principles in construction .The lean construction strives for the same goals as lean production, namely to eliminate waste and to maximize value. One of the basic concepts in lean construction is called “perfection”, meaning that efforts made to decrease waste in every single phase of the projects has no limit and the enhancements resulted from implementation of lean principles must always be retained and improved. This paper pays attention to application of lean thinking in one of construction fields as a case study. Another aim could be mentioned as continuity of resulted enhancements caused by application of the theory by following perfection principle. To achieve and investigate the results, discrete event simulation for making activity under-study cycle model has been used. The case study in this research is foam concrete process in execution phase. The required data for building the simulation model has been collected using work and time study technique. Primary results show that different kinds of waste in a construction process can be reduced via adopting lean construction principles using computer simulation. The results obtained from applying lean principles demonstrate enhancement in performance of foam concrete cycle up to 15% and decrease in time up to 36%.https://www.jsce.ir/article_87075_322f481973586fe347b530fc87102b0b.pdflean constructionlean principleslean thinkingdiscrete event simulationperfection
spellingShingle Shahin Dabirian
Seyed. Rohollah Ghorashi
Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering
lean construction
lean principles
lean thinking
discrete event simulation
perfection
title Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation
title_full Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation
title_fullStr Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation
title_full_unstemmed Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation
title_short Implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation
title_sort implementing and continuity of lean construction using discrete event simulation
topic lean construction
lean principles
lean thinking
discrete event simulation
perfection
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