TY  - CONF
TI  - Heijunka System to Level Telescopic Forklift Activities Using Tablets in Construction Site
C1  - Fortaleza, Brazil
C3  - 21th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 821
EP  - 830
PY  - 2013
AU  - Barbosa, George
AU  - Andrade, Fabíola
AU  - Biotto, Clarissa
AU  - Mota, Bruno
AD  - Civil engineer trainee. Colmeia Construction Company, Fortaleza, Brazil, Phone +55 85 32886600, george.barbosa@colmeia.com.br
AD  - Civil engineer. Colmeia Construction Company, Fortaleza, Brazil, Phone +55 85 99848252, fabiola@colmeia.com.br
AD  - Architect. SIPPRO Management of Construction, Fortaleza, Brazil, Phone +55 85 99484558, clarissa@pauta.eng.br
AD  - Civil engineer. SIPPRO Management of Construction, Fortaleza, Brazil, Phone +55 85 99458582, bruno@pauta.eng.br
ED  - Formoso, Carlos Torres
ED  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia 
AB  - The use of new information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring benefits to the management of construction sites, such as material savings, productivity growth and the enhancement in the speed of information transmission. To manage the supply of more than 62 blocks of 14 apartments each, spread over an area of 55 hectares, a team of engineers from a construction company in Fortaleza (Brazil) developed a system to schedule and track the progress of activities of forklifts on site in order to avoid idleness of these machines and workers waiting for materials. Thus, this paper describes a computerized system for distribution and leveling (heijunka) of forklift work, using tablets to inform operators about supply and cleanup activities to be performed at the jobsite. The work was developed in five steps: team training in lean construction concepts, recognition of real problems, system development as a problems solution, solution testing and identification of improvements and consolidation of results. Results were reductions of idle machines, work stoppage due to the lack of material and distance travelled. This computerized system has also improved the organization of construction site and the productivity of workers.
KW  - Tablet
KW  - heijunka
KW  - ICT.
PB  - 
T2  - 21th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2013/07/31
CY  - Fortaleza, Brazil
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/873/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/873
N1  - Export Date: 26 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -