Flow in Lean Construction is the smooth and continuous movement of work and resources through a project. The key to creating and sustaining flow is minimizing blockages, eliminating waste, and planning the sequence of work in the most logical, productive way possible. Digitizing Lean with Touchplan significantly enhances flow by providing real-time project updates, data-driven insights, and visual, collaborative workflow planning.
By enabling team members to identify and eliminate roadblocks, create efficient hand-offs, plan productive activity sequences, and re-sequence work to minimize disruptions, Touchplan ensures that projects are always in forward motion. This digital approach to Lean enables real-time collaboration and decisions, avoidance of unnecessary wait time and waste, and fosters worker trust and collaboration on the job site.
With the seamless combination of proven Lean Construction principles and the digital efficiency of Touchplan, teams can anticipate and mitigate potential disruptions, maintain steady progress, and deliver projects on time and within budget.
Key Ways Touchplan Creates Flow on Construction Projects:
- Enable Smooth Handoffs: Touchplan significantly reduces delays caused by poorly executed handoffs between disciplines, a major factor in commercial construction projects. By improving the handoff process, Touchplan helps maintain the master schedule, ensuring timely project completion, increased efficiency, and enhanced profitability.
- Identify and Track Variance Reasons: Variances in the schedule disrupt project flow and cause delays. Touchplan allows users to track committed activities, identify which issues have the biggest impact on construction project schedules, and easily adjust plans to mitigate variances’ impact on the schedule.
- Labor Flow Optimization: Ensure continuous and safe labor utilization with real-time, software-enabled production planning. Quickly adapt to variances to prevent delays, rework, and productivity loss, keeping the right skills in the right place at the right time.
- Efficient Sequencing and Resequencing: Touchplan enables users to efficiently plan, sequence, and re-sequence work activities, ensuring that project workflows remain logical, productive, and adaptable to changes, minimizing disruptions and maintaining continuous progress.
- Eliminates Waste: Touchplan allows teams to create productive workflows by identifying and removing inefficiencies, such as unnecessary waiting times, rework, and miscommunication, ensuring that resources are optimally utilized, and waste is minimized throughout the project.
- Reduce Disruptive Rework: Touchplan’s Variance Identification improves the flow of construction projects with enhanced variance and constraint tracking, increasing project predictability and reducing mistakes or out-of-sequence work that might cause rework.
- Aggregated, Data-Driven Decisioning: Aggregating data at the portfolio and company level allows for a comprehensive view of project performance, enabling informed decisions that optimize workflows and minimize disruptions, ultimately enhancing the flow of construction activities.
- Continuous Improvement: Touchplan’s facilitation of continuous learning through real-time feedback and data analysis promotes ongoing process refinement, leading to smoother workflows and improved flow in construction projects.
- Visual, Proactive Problem-Solving: Touchplan’s easy-to-understand visual planning space helps teams track progress and identify bottlenecks before they impact the schedule.
- Enhanced Communication: Real-time updates and shared access to project information keeps everyone informed and aligned.
- Boosting Motivation: Touchplan helps teams plan together and stay accountable, which keeps everyone motivated. It supports working independently, collaborating with your team, and improving skills with quick feedback.
- Encouraging Self-Motivation: The best way to boost productivity is through self-motivation. Touchplan makes it easier to plan and work together, supporting important factors like choosing what works best for you, planning side by side with your team, and getting better at your job with helpful feedback.
- Keeping Workers “in the zone”: Touchplan helps workers stay fully focused and productive by matching their skills with the job’s challenges. Just like surfers adjust to changing waves, Touchplan helps workers adapt to the changing demands of a construction project, keeping everything running smoothly and efficiently.
