TY  - CONF
TI  - Developing & Testing a Value Stream Map Simulation: Helping the Construction Industry Learn to See
AU  - Arefazar, Yasaman
AU  - Rybkowski, Zofia K.
AD  - Graduate Student, Department of Construction Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,  USA, o: (979) 422-6385, yasamanarefazar@tamu.edu, orcid.org/ 0000-0003-2827-572X
AD  - Associate Professor, Department of Construction Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,  USA, o: (979) 845-43zrybkowski@tamu.edu, orcid.org/ 0000-0002-0683-5004
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/27
T2  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Edmonton, Canada
SP  - 342
EP  - 353
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0135
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - Resources to interactively teach value stream mapping (VSM) to construction practitioners and students of lean are currently limited. While traditional value stream mapping methods make sense for those with a background in manufacturing or industrial engineering, they are arguably neither intuitive to construct nor easy to understand by those in the building industry. There is a need for a value stream mapping method that implements and communicates in ways that are already familiar to those in construction. The objective of this research is to develop and test a VSM simulation as a preliminary study that makes intuitive sense for those in the construction industry and so can serve as a training method for the identification and removal of waste. A virtual simulation was developed and tested using a design research methodology to facilitate scalability and to enable on-line play.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - value stream mapping
KW  - continuous improvement / kaizen
KW  - waste
KW  - workflow
KW  - lean simulation
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1969/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1969
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -