https://doi.org/10.24928/2020/0025

Lean Construction Principles and Railway Maintenance Planning

Daria Ivina¹ & Nils O.E. Olsson²

¹PhD Student, Faculty of Engineering, LTH, Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, Transport and Roads, Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002- 0893-4129
²Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-1344-8555

Abstract

Lean construction principles have been successfully adopted in a variety of industries to increase project management quality. This paper addresses maintenance planning in Sweden and analyses its effectiveness in the framework of lean construction principles. To investigate the status and improvement potential of maintenance contractors’ performance, the study focuses on the detailed planning process, which is mainly the responsibility of contractors. A literature review, a data analysis and interviews were used to reveal the possible barriers to the adaptation of lean principles to the maintenance industry. The study presents a developed theoretical framework for the analysing maintenance processes in the perspective of lean construction principles. We found that the application of lean principles has the potential for improvements in the planning process, but there are some barriers to effective implementation, including a lack of knowledge about lean principles at contractors’ sites.

Keywords

Lean construction, railway maintenance, Last Planner® System, workflow, planning

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Reference

Ivina, D. & Olsson, N. O. 2020. Lean Construction Principles and Railway Maintenance Planning, Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) , 577-588. doi.org/10.24928/2020/0025

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