TY  - CONF
TI  - Lean Diagnosis for Chilean Construction Industry: Towards More Sustainable Lean Practices and Tools
AU  - Salvatierra1, José L.
AU  - Alarcón, Luis F.
AU  - López, Angela
AU  - Velásquez, Ximena
AD  - Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Av. Ecuador 3659, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile, Phone +56 2 27182818, jose.salvatierra@usach.cl
AD  - Professor, Department of Construction Engineering and Management, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Edificio San Agustín 3er Piso, Macul, Santiago, Chile, Phone +56 2 2354 4244, lalarcon@ing.puc.cl
AD  - Project Consultant, Production Management Consultants - GEPRO, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Edificio Mide UC 3er Piso, Macul, Santiago, Chile, Phone +56 2 2354 7050, alopez@gepro.cl
AD  - Project Consultant, Production Management Consultants - GEPRO, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Edificio Mide UC 3er Piso, Macul, Santiago, Chile, Phone +56 2 2354 7050, dvelasquez@gepro.cl
ED  - Seppänen, Olli
ED  - González, Vicente A.
ED  - Arroyo, Paz
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/07/29
T2  - 23rd Annual Conference of the  International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 23rd Annual Conference of the  International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Perth, Australia
SP  - 642
EP  - 651
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - Construction companies face important challenges to implement and sustain Lean methods, and they need to periodically assess the state of their implementation efforts. This paper presents the results of a collaborative initiative from seven Chilean construction companies to diagnose the implementation state of some aspects of Lean organizations: Philosophy, Culture and Technology. The diagnosis was carried out using data from four different tools: interviews with managers, workshops with Last Planner implementers, visits to projects and planning meetings, and an organizational survey to validate previous results. Despite 90% of managers believe that Lean is central to enhancing their businesses, important barriers to sustain practices were detected such as Last Planner (LP), which was identified as a common tool among those companies. Thus, the most important aspects observed could be summarized as lack of certainty, lack of training, and very limited use of other tools; moreover, important differences were identified with regards to the level of LP implementations. The diagnosis is expected to constitute a base to generate improved company strategies to implement and sustain Lean construction practices, with emphasis in the development of people as a core of Lean organizations.
KW  - Continuous improvement
KW  - Last Planner System
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - Lookahead
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1208/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1208
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -