Takt Time Planning:  Lessons for Construction Industry from a Cruise Ship Cabin Refurbishment Case Study

Aleksi Heinonen; Olli Seppänen

Takt Time Planning: Lessons for Construction Industry from a Cruise Ship Cabin Refurbishment Case Study

Aleksi Heinonen
, Olli Seppänen

Department of Civil Engineering

I.S Mäkinen Oy

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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Abstract

Takt time planning has recently received a lot of attention in lean construction community. However, very few empirical results have been reported. This paper presents a takt time planning case study from a closely related industry, cruise ship cabin refurbishment. The results of lean implementation in the case company have been very good, including productivity increase to 380% of baseline, WIP decrease of 99%, quality defect decrease of 99% and project lead time reduction of 73%. The paper reviews the process used and compares and contrasts the takt time method implemented by case company and the process proposed for construction in previous lean construction conferences. The implemented takt time method was found to be similar to the method proposed in previous lean construction conferences but it includes several additional process steps such as explicitly considering material logistics and garbage collection and real-time data collection. The main differences between project types are in logistics setup and business drivers impacting desire to cut lead time over improving resource efficiency. Interestingly, cycle time reduction achieved both goals in the case company. The contribution of this paper is to show the benefits of takt time planning and to propose additional components to takt time planning process

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 24th Annual Confenrence of the International Group for Lean Construction
Publisher	National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
Publication status	Published - 2016
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Boston, United States Duration: 18 Jul 2016 → 24 Jul 2016 Conference number: 24 http://iglc2016.com/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
Publisher	International Group for Lean Construction
ISSN (Electronic)	2309-0979

Conference

Conference	Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
Abbreviated title	IGLC
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	18/07/2016 → 24/07/2016
Internet address	http://iglc2016.com/

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

Takt time planning
Logistics
Flow
work in progress

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Heinonen, A., & Seppänen, O. (2016). Takt Time Planning: Lessons for Construction Industry from a Cruise Ship Cabin Refurbishment Case Study. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Confenrence of the International Group for Lean Construction (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction). National Pingtung University of Science and Technology.

Heinonen, Aleksi ; Seppänen, Olli. / Takt Time Planning : Lessons for Construction Industry from a Cruise Ship Cabin Refurbishment Case Study. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Confenrence of the International Group for Lean Construction. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, 2016. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction).

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Heinonen, A & Seppänen, O 2016, Takt Time Planning: Lessons for Construction Industry from a Cruise Ship Cabin Refurbishment Case Study. in Proceedings of the 24th Annual Confenrence of the International Group for Lean Construction. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 18/07/2016.

Takt Time Planning: Lessons for Construction Industry from a Cruise Ship Cabin Refurbishment Case Study. / Heinonen, Aleksi; Seppänen, Olli.
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Confenrence of the International Group for Lean Construction. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, 2016. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction).

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