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Table 1. Model proposal against MC implementation barriers
Mc
Implementation
Barriers
Causes
Variability
Increase
Uncertainty,
Complexity, Cost
and Time in the
Obsolete management
Building Execution methods
Lack of business integration
Improvisation in strategic
decision
Search for short-term
benefit
Fragmentation of
participants
Lack of formation
Heavy dependence on
human resources rather
than technologies
Technological Islands and
technological wastage
Solutions
Standardization and
agility and change
management
Alignment of goals
Maximize customer
value
Continuous
improvement
Agility and flexibility
Collaboration, trust
and commitment
Transparency
Availability and access
to information
Systematic procedure
and Standardization
Automated
technology
Technology as a key
element
Integration and
Management of
legacy technology
Approaches and paradigms that integrate
the model
New philosophies and Emerging
BPM
tools
technologies
Lean
Six
construction- sigma
LPS
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Use case
Therefore, in the present work it has been developed a specific use case applied to the flooring
works where the use of BPM as a management strategy has integrated other solution, specifically,
the Last Planner system that is one of the Lean Construction tools for planning and managing
variability on site (Ballard, 1994, 1997:13-26; Ballard & Howell, 2003; Koskela & Howell, 2002).
It has been modelled the most common floors (ceramic, marble and wood laminate), to offer customers various options to customize their homes, together with the process of Weekly Work Plan
(hereinafter WWP) which implements the phase of the short-term planning of the Last Planner
System.
This case study aims to validate the use of the BPM strategy along with the IoT technological
approach to improve the management, monitoring and traceability of the works, to achieve an
efficient management of the individual options selected by customers. To carry out this case of
study we have used the BPMS open source platform Bonita BPM version 6.3.8, together with a
SmartWatch Samsumg Gear S model and a Nokia Lumia 910 Smartphone.
In first place was made the processes modelling of the different flooring processes (ceramic, marble and wood laminate) using standard BPMN modelling (Fig. 3), and WWP processes (Fig. 4).
Then, the implementation of each of the tasks that compose the process has been done, with
particular emphasis on the needs of usability and accessibility in the built environment.
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