TY  - CONF
TI  - Improving Performance of Process Flows
AU  - Chin, Chang-Sun
AU  - Russell, Jeffrey S.
AD  - Ph.D. Candidate, Construction Engineering and Management Program, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, chin2@wisc.edu
AD  - Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, russell@engr.wisc.edu
ED  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia
ED  - Kagioglou, Mike
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2008/07/16
T2  - 16th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 16th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Manchester, UK
SP  - 39
EP  - 49
AB  - A process flow is a sequence of processes and stock points through which entities pass in sequence. At the level of a flow, the performance metrics related to overall system performance are throughput, cycle time and work-in-process. Understanding relationships between these metrics and flow behaviour is most important part to improve process flow performance and design high efficiency flows. A system can perform completely differently under different conditions. By comparing flow performance in a present state with those in theoretically possible states that a system can reach, we can determine whether a process flow is good or bad. The research defines process flow performance metrics as well as their relationships, and suggests a method to evaluate process flow performance using the flow metrics. The outcome will provide an internal benchmark of a process flow and different routes for process flow improvement.
KW  - process flow
KW  - bottleneck rate
KW  - raw process time
KW  - critical WIP
KW  - practical worst case performance
KW  - internal benchmark
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/552/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/552
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -