TY  - CONF
TI  - A Decentralized and Pull-Based Control Loop for On-Demand Delivery in Eto Construction Supply Chains
AU  - Dallasega, Patrick
AU  - Marcher, Carmen
AU  - Marengo, Elisa
AU  - Rauch, Erwin
AU  - Matt, Dominik T.
AU  - Nutt, Werner
AD  - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, patrick.dallasega@unibz.it
AD  - Research Associate, Fraunhofer Italia Research Società consortile a responsabilità limitata, Bolzano, Italy, carmen.marcher@fraunhofer.it
AD  - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, elisa.marengo@unibz.it
AD  - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, erwin.rauch2@unibz.it
AD  - Full Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, dominik.matt@unibz.it     Head of Institute, Fraunhofer Italia Research Società consortile a responsabilità limitata, Bolzano, Italy, dominik.matt@fraunhofer.it
AD  - Full Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, werner.nutt@unibz.it
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/07/20
T2  - 24th Annual Conference of the  International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 24th Annual Conference of the  International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - Engineer-to-Order (ETO) process chain types with a successive installation on-site are common in plant building and the construction industry. Usually, the core processes Engineering, Fabrication and Installation are disconnected, which creates high levels of Work in Progress (WIP) and long lead-times. Furthermore, up to date information about the construction progress, as prerequisite for an on-demand delivery of ETO-components is always difficult to obtain. Usually, to prevent a lack of material on-site, costly intermediate storages are used, which extend the delivery time. Well-known approaches in research, like the Last Planner System (LPS) or the Location Based Management System (LBMS), increase collaboration on-site and improve the reliability of construction schedules, but have a limited impact on synchronizing the supply chain to the construction progress. The approach presented in the paper describes how off-site and on-site production can be coupled, to reach short construction lead-times without wastefully intermediate storages. A first IT-prototype, based on “Industry 4.0” principles, was implemented and tested in an Italian medium-sized ETO construction supplier.
KW  - Engineer-to-Order
KW  - Just-in-Time
KW  - Supply Chain Management
KW  - Control Loop
KW  - Industry 4.0
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1242/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1242
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -