Can Lean Manufacturing Principles Improve Construction?
Viewpoint Construction Technology
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
If construction jobsites have one thing in common, it’s that they’re all different. This variation — in project size, scope, type, materials, timelines, etc. — makes a philosophy like lean manufacturing seem unsuited to the construction industry. Lean, an approach to manufacturing first developed by Toyota , focuses on streamlining and standardizing processes by reducing waste, improving flow and designing what you do based on what’s valuable to end customers.
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