Tezel, Algan, Koskela, Lauri, Tzortzopoulos, Patricia, Talebi, Saeed and Miron, Luciana Ines Gomes (2018). Continuous Improvement Cells in the Highways Sector. IN: 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction. Gonzalez, Vicente A. (ed.) IND: The International Group for Lean Construction.
Abstract
In line with its performance improvement and Lean Construction agenda, the highways supply chain in the UK has commenced many Continuous Improvement (CI) cells in recent years. The CI cell is a small-group work coordination and improvement technique that is frequently used in many industries as part of their lean transformations. The technique has also its links to some key lean concepts and practices like continuous improvement (kaizen), Visual Management and hoshinkanri policy deployment. This paper presents a summary of a detailed research aiming to understand the execution of the CI cells in the highways supply chain in the UK with their associated benefits and challenges through a study of 12 CI cells at the main client organisation. Alongside a set of benefits and challenges, the current CI cell execution mechanism and some suggestions to improve the current practice were also presented in the paper.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.24928/2018/0406 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering > Engineering Systems and Supply Chain Management |
Event Title: | 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC 2018 |
Event Type: | Other |
Event Dates: | 2018-07-16 - 2018-07-22 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Continuous improvement,Lean construction,Visual management,HoshinKanri,highways |
ISBN: | 978-93-80689-29-6 |
Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2024 09:47 |
Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2021 14:09 |
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PURE Output Type: | Conference contribution |
Published Date: | 2018-07-22 |
Authors: |
Tezel, Algan
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0000-0003-3903-6126)
Koskela, Lauri Tzortzopoulos, Patricia Talebi, Saeed Miron, Luciana Ines Gomes |