Importance Of Lean Management In Construction Industry

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Abstract:
In order to develop the efficiency and reduction of waste, the lean construction has been introduced as a new management principle for better functioning. There are many challenges to implement the lean concept in construction industry. In India, the execution of lean management in construction industry is a major task. Due to lack of awareness and illiterate towards the lean management principle. The main focus of this study is to utilize lean thinking concept in order to manage, improve &develop the product faster while improving or at least maintain the level of performance &quality in construction industry. In order to find out the wastages prepare the questionnaire and finding out the major factors for waste generation and less …show more content…

Many researches is going on towards the lean principles and to get results of the successful adaption of lean principal ideas from car manufacturing industry to the construction industry. The construction companies struggling to change their current forms of project management into the lean management approach. To implement the lean management in construction industry, questionnaire approach is proposed in this paper, data are collected from fresher’s as well as experts to find out the wastages in construction industry.
A. Objective of the study
The following are the objective of this paper:
(1) Recognize the source of wastes classified under lean construction industry to improve the quality of the project
(2) Examine usual perceptions of the construction industry with the lean construction principles of practices.
(3) Recognize the benefits and barriers linked with lean implementation.
(4) Study the relationship between lean construction and performance improvement programs in construction …show more content…

B. Overview of Lean Management
The lean management principle was first developed by Japanese production industries (Toyota Car Company).It was executed by a discoverer named John Krafcik in the year 1988.
C. Lean Construction
According to Koskela and Thomas et al. [4], Lean construction includes practice of just-in-time, use of pull-driven arrangement, reduction of variability in labour productivity, improvement of flow dependability, removal of waste, overview of the operation, and implementation of benchmarking.
D. Waste Elimination
Waste elimination is very significant process in the construction sector to improve the quality and productivity of the project. Waste may be generated directly or indirectly during the construction in the construction industry.
III. LITERATURE

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