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Who are we?

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• Construction Professionals

• Business Improvement Consultants

• Bring a different way of looking at the

industry

• Lean Construction Specialists

Andrew McElwee

Director

James Player

Director

Steve Ward

Managing DirectorMichelle Leong

Director

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Our Mission

“Improve the Performance of the

Construction Sector”

“Make it Safer, Faster, Cheaper,

Higher Quality, Better for the Environment and

a Great Place to Work!”

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What We Do

• We help organisations actively engage their people

in the continuous improvement of the design,

construction and maintenance of the built

environment, using lean thinking as a robust

philosophical framework.

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DesignConstruct

Maintain

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Some of our Customers

Scottish Construction Centre, CITB Construction Skills,

The Ministry of Justice, Hennes & Mauritz, Dundee City

Council, Skanska, Kier, BAM, ISG Group, Federation of

Master Builders, National Federation of Builders, The

Learning Skills Council, West Midlands Centre for

Constructing Excellence, The Scottish Qualifications

Authority, Dundee University, Farrans Construction,

Bear Scotland, Morgan Est. Scottish Water, Network

Rail, CIF Ireland, Enterprise Ireland.

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Our Approach

• Challenge All Fixed Ideas

• Harness the expertise in your own

workforce!

• Act Now – Don’t wait for the perfect

time – it wont come!

• Not Money! – Use you Wisdom!

• Get to the Root Cause

• Endlessly Pursue Perfection

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Doing 70%

LEARN BY DOING

Teach

10%

I Hear & I forget,

I See & I remember,

I DO & I UNDERSTAND

Exercise

20%

Our Approach

Lean Thinking is ok but

what really counts is Lean

Doing!

Must turn theory into

practice!

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What is Lean?

ACTIVITY = WORK + WASTE

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Raise the ratio of Value Added Tasks to Support

Activity and Waste

CAPACITY

Minimise

More resources available

WASTE SA VA

Eliminate

Creating Capacity

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Overall Summary All Companies

Lean Healthcheck

Not at all

Very

prevalent

Inventory Defects Overproduction

Unnecessary

Motion Over processing

Waiting /

Delay

Transport /

motion Other

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Waste

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2

3

4

5

6

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Inventory Defects Overproduction Unnecessary Motion Over Processing Waiting / Delay Transport / Motion Other

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LEVEL

1

DATA PERIOD: APRIL - MAY, 2004

SAMPLE SIZE: 20 PLOTS

DATE DRAWN: 31st May, 2004

DRAWN BY: N.MORREY

ANALYSIS OF PLOTS EXPERIENCING DELAYS & DISRUPTIONS

COMMENT

ACTION ANALYSE CAUSES OF DELAYS & DISRUPTIONS

75% OF PLOTS EXPERIENCED DELAYS & DISRUPTIONS

75% OF PLOTS

WITH DELAYS &

DISRUPTIONS

25% OF PLOTS

WITHOUT

DELAYS &

DISRUPTIONS

LEVEL

2

DATA PERIOD: APRIL - MAY, 2004

SAMPLE SIZE: 20 PLOTS

DATE DRAWN: 31st May, 2004

DRAWN BY: N.MORREY

ANALYSIS OF DELAYS AND DISRUPTIONS

COMMENT

ACTION

47% OF TIME IS LOST DUE TO WAITING FOR OTHER TRADES TO

COMPLETE

INVESTIGATE WAITING FOR OTHER TRADES CATEGORY

DELAY & DISRUPTION CATEGORY

HO

UR

S

LO

ST

20

10

30

40

50

70

60

80

90

100

110

120

WAITING

OTHER

TRADES

WAITING

M ATERIALS

DESIGN

PROBLEM

WEATHER OTHER

100

50

75

25

47%

74%

92%

99%100%

LEVEL

3

DATA PERIOD: APRIL - MAY, 2004

SAMPLE SIZE: 20 PLOTS

DATE DRAWN: 31st May, 2004

DRAWN BY: N.MORREY

ANALYSIS OF WAITING FOR OTHER TRADES

COMMENT

ACTION

40% OF TIME IS LOST DUE TO WAITING FOR PLUMBER TO

COMPLETE WORKS

INVESTIGATE REASONS WHY PLUMBER DOES NOT COMPLETE

WORKS ON TIME, CAUSING OTHER TRADES TO WAIT

TRADE

HO

UR

S

LO

ST

20

10

30

50

PLUM BER SCAFFOLD FOUNDS JOINER

100

50

75

25

40%

70%

90%40

100

Effort

Impact Why do

Plumbers

struggle to

finish on

time?

Equipment People

Methods Materials

Best teams on

other jobs

Drivers

get

lost

Run out

of gas

Unreliable

vans

Distance

to travel

to jobsRun out of

fittingsEnvironment

Gas Board

delays in

fitting

meter

THE 5 CAUSES OF VARIATION - Fishbone diagram

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About the CIF Data

• 34 Projects across 7 companies were

reported against

• Each Project has 106 checks

• Total Population of checks = 34 X 106

= 3604

• Less Than 4 = Red so looked at % of

checks less than 4

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LEVEL DATE

1 06/01/2014

Comment 35% of lean Healthcheck items scored less than 4

Action Investigate most frequent causes of failure

Lean Healthcheck SummarySAMPLE SIZE PERIOD ISSUER

3604 34 Projects S.Ward

65%

35%

Scored Over 4

Scored Less Than 4

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Update

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• Lean Start

• Lean Plus

• Lean Transform