2.0 Objective of the Assignment ..................................................................................................................................... 3
3.0 The Last Planner System, Lean Production and the Lean Philosophy ................................................................ 3
i. The Last Planner System (LPS) ....................................................................................................................... 3
ii. Lean Production ................................................................................................................................................. 5
iii. Lean Philosophy ................................................................................................................................................. 6
3.1 Relationship between the Last Planner System and the theories associated with Lean Production and
the Lean Philosophy ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
3.2 A Critical Review of the Last Planner System of production planning and control against the accepted
theory of Lean Production............................................................................................................................................ 9
3.3 Commonalities and divergencies of the two systems ..................................................................................... 10
, Table of Figures
Figure 1.The Last Planner System .................................................................................................................................. 3
Figure 2. An Illustration of LPS of a typical Construction Project .............................................................................. 4
Figure 3. An Illustration of Lean Production - The "4P"Model of the Toyota Way.................................................. 5
Figure 4. The Lean Management Philisophy and the Methods used ......................................................................... 7
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