TY  - CONF
TI  - Simulating the Last Planner With Systems Dynamic
AU  - Mota, Bruno P.
AU  - Viana, Daniela D.
AU  - Isatto, Eduardo L.
AD  - Civil Engineer, Master Student, Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. brunopmota@yahoo.com.br
AD  - Architect, Master Student, Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. danidietz@gmail.com
AD  - Dr., Associate Professor, Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. isatto@ufrgs.br
ED  - Walsh, Kenneth
ED  - Alves, Thais
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010/07/14
T2  - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Haifa, Israel
SP  - 487
EP  - 496
AB  - The Last Planner System is one of the most remarkable practices in lean construction and usually a starting point for lean implementation in construction companies. Different aspects of its application have been discussed along a number of articles since the first IGLC conferences. However, despite the many studies on this subject, the reasons for some recurrent patterns in the outcome data of the system and how they influence each other still remain to be explained. One of them is the cyclic nature of the PPC indicator that appears in most of the implementation examples presented in those articles. This article aims to help understanding such behaviour by developing a system dynamics model to investigate the influence of the variability, delays and project performance over the whole system. The model offers an explanation about how PPC fluctuations in the present may be explained by events in the past and, particularly, how to avoid undesirable outcomes in the future behaviour of the indicator.
KW  - System dynamics
KW  - Last Planner System
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/714/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/714
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -