TY  - CONF
TI  - Guidelines for Devising and Assessing Visual Management Systems in Construction Sites
AU  - Valente, Caroline
AU  - Brandalise, Fernanda
AU  - Pivatto, Marinna
AU  - Formoso, Carlos
AD  - Msc. Student, Building Innovation Research Unit - NORIE, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, carolinevalente@gmail.com
AD  - Undergraduate Student, Building Innovation Research Unit - NORIE, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, fernandampbrandalise@gmail.com
AD  - Production Engineer, Cassol Pré-Fabricados, Brazil, marinna_pp@hotmail.com
AD  - Professor, Building Innovation Research Unit - NORIE, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formoso@ufrgs.br
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/07/09
T2  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Heraklion, Greece
SP  - 695
EP  - 702
DO  - 10.24928/2017/0095
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - Visual Management (VM) has gained a prominent place in the Lean Production Philosophy, and is strongly connected to the core principle of increasing process transparency. However, the use of VM in construction sites is still relatively limited, and there is not much literature on the implementation of this principle. This paper proposes guidelines for devising and assessing VM systems in construction sites. It is based on a set of benchmarking studies, and on an empirical study conducted in a housebuilding firm that is widely recognised as a leading company in the implementation of Lean Construction in Brazil. Initially, an overall assessment of the VM system implemented in one construction site was conducted. Then, a more focused analysis was made on the installation of drywall internal partitions. The main contributions of this investigation are related to the need of integrating visual devices in the managerial routines of the company, as well as to the difficulties of providing autonomy to the production crews, and the need of decentralized production controls.
KW  - Visual Management
KW  - Transparency
KW  - Production Planning and Control
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1460/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1460
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -