TY  - CONF
TI  - Model for Production System Design in Modular Construction Projects
C1  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
C3  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
SP  - 388
EP  - 399
PY  - 2025
DO  - 10.24928/2025/0165
AU  - Bataglin, Fernanda S.
AU  - Formoso, Carlos T.
AU  - Viana, Daniela D.
AD  - Civil Engineer and Lean Consultant, fernanda.saidelles@gmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0001-8859-1201
AD  - Professor, Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, formoso@ufrgs.br, orcid.org/0000-0002-4772-3746
AD  - Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Department, NORIE, UFRGS, dietz.viana@ufrgs.br, orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-4708
ED  - Seppänen, Olli 
ED  - Koskela, Lauri 
ED  - Murata , Koichi 
AB  - Modular construction has gained increasing relevance as a kind of Engineer-to-order (ETO) industrialized building systems, which are plagued by different sources of complexity. Production system design (PSD) is one of the core activities in production management, translating the intended production strategy into a set of decisions to improve flows. Previous research efforts were mostly limited to the design of production systems for projects that involved traditional construction technologies. However, the scope of PSP decisions tends to be broader in industrialized building systems because it requires information from multiple production units to align strategic and operational decisions. The aim of this research is to devise a process model for designing production systems for ETO industrialized building systems within the context of modular construction. Design Science Research was the methodological approach adopted in this investigation, which involved three empirical studies carried out in partnership with a company that delivers modular construction projects. The main outcome of this investigation is a set of decision-making steps to support the design of the production system based on core operations management concepts and principles. The main benefit of this model to guide the development of PSD in a systematic and formalized way.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - Production system design
KW  - Engineer-to-order
KW  - Modular Construction
KW  - 4D BIM.
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
DA  - 2025/06/02
CY  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2349/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2349
N1  - Export Date: 28 December 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -