TY  - CONF
TI  - Lean Construction Principles and Railway Maintenance Planning
AU  - Ivina, Daria
AU  - Olsson, Nils O.E.
AD  - PhD Student, Faculty of Engineering, LTH, Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, Transport and Roads, Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden, daria.ivina@tft.lth.se, orcid.org/0000-0002- 0893-4129
AD  - Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway, nils.olsson@ntnu.no, orcid.org/0000-0002-1344-8555
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/06
T2  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
SP  - 577
EP  - 588
DO  - 10.24928/2020/0025
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - 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.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - railway maintenance
KW  - Last Planner® System
KW  - workflow
KW  - planning
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1769/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1769
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -