... (PDA) was originally proposed as a lean production technique to pull materials through the production system to meet specific's customer demand. Realising that lean production techniques can help reduce wastage in construction, some attempts have been made to apply PDA to construction (Alarcon, 1997...

... in Europe and the USA where concurrent engineering methods were used and found substantial time savings. The study also showed benefits in information exchange, communication of information and documents, and improved quality. Sweden Construction industry Lean production Bespoke production...

.... Stephen Emmitt can be contacted at: S.Emmitt@lboro.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Lean thinking Lean culture Making do Process improvement Task completion Work sequence (flow) United Kingdom Lean production Construction industry Within the lean construction...

...Isabelina Nahmens; Michael Mullens Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better define the relationships between product variety and lean production in enabling mass customization in industrialized homebuilding. Design/methodology/approach This study includes a case study analysis of two...

... discussions with selected interviewees; i.e. project superintendents, engineers and foremen because they are aware of the whole studied processes. Focusing on information and materials flows is one of the main principles of lean production theory (Crowley, 1998). In fact, Farrar et al. (2004...