TY  - CONF
TI  - Principles of Mistakeproofing and Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)
AU  - Tommelein, Iris D.
AD  - Professor, Civil and Envir. Engrg. Dept., Director of the Project Production Systems Laboratory (p2sl.berkeley.edu), Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1712, USA, +1 510 643-8678, tommelein@berkeley.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6596
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/07/03
T2  - Proc. 27th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 27th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Dublin, Ireland
SP  - 1401
EP  - 1412
DO  - 10.24928/2019/0129
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - To err is human but people can design and make systems that are less error-prone, and more fail-safe and defect-free than many are today. One such lean design practice is called mistakeproofing (poke yoke). It is integral to the Toyota Production System and successfully practiced in numerous industry sectors. Mistakeproofing is not as widelynor as intentionally practiced in the Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) industry as it could be. To promote conceptual understanding and adoption, this paper presents 6 mistakeproofing principles. To further spur innovative mistakeproofing practices, it also presents the 40 principles of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ). Mistakeproofing examples from the AEC industry demonstrate how these two sets of principles can be directly linked to rationalize existing mistakeproofing practices and, in addition, to potentially design “innovative” ones. As such, this paper supports the drive for industry innovation in developing products and processes of greater quality and thereby contribute to construction industry performance improvement.
KW  - visual management
KW  - mistakeproofing (mistake-proofing
KW  - mistake proofing)
KW  - error proofing
KW  - poka yoke
KW  - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
KW  - TRIZ
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1710/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1710
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -