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Lean In Construction Case Study

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, construction is one of the increasing industries in Malaysia after manufacturing and production industries as the country can be categorized as one of developed country. As we know, in manufacturing and health area they applying lean in their working area and it is not new for us. But in the construction area, not only in Malaysia even in the other country applying lean in construction is still new only few of countries had applied this system but still in the progress to maintain the lean in construction.
In this study, we want to determine the lean readiness in construction industries so that we can determine the factor of readiness in Malaysia or specifically in Johor Bahru area. This is …show more content…

It focused to improvise performance process. Nowadays, lean is used in most of industry to make continual improvement and eliminate waste. We also can focused on understanding and eliminating process by stabilizing the workload, works performed can be standardized, help to solve and identify daily problems, attract everyone in the improvement process, appreciate a common way in performing works and focus on system effectiveness than functional efficiency in industry. 1.1.2 What is Lean Construction
For the last 25 years, Lean Construction was developed by Lauri Koskela from his report in 1992. Koskela wanted the academics and professional to challenge themselves to came up with new philosophy because Koskela found an obsolete conceptual and intellectual basis in that area. The new philosophy is focused towards poor delivery time record between contractual relationship and scheduling, also cost and quality. Table below shows the principles developed by Koskela. (Biton and Howell, …show more content…

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2 RO2 How to develop the conceptual framework for lean readiness in construction industry at Johor Bahru area. - Questionnaire Exploratory Factor Analysis
(EFA)
3 RO3 How to measure the perception on lean towards the Lean Committee/Quality Department personnel of the company.

1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY Our targets for this research are construction or contractor’s company who involve in the construction area. We are targeting companies which come from building background as they are handling building process.
The questionnaire will be distributed to the construction industry and to companies which have been registered with CIDB as we gain the list of the contractor from their website. The questionnaire will be distributed to them because they know how they conducting their works based on their field of work and get the feedback from the staff and

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