Tact Control - Achieving Transparency in the Workplace

The current industry approach is chaos. Workers do not see the planning. Foremen try to follow an uncollaborative dictated schedule or they ignore it completely. The famous Office fire drill episode shows what this looks like. People run around in different directions with false urgency. Deadlines are unnecessary or too late. Teams throw workers, money, materials at the project. It is like putting out a fire with one hundred dollar bills. Last Planner and Scrum are better. They introduce phase planning with pull planning. Make ready schedules identify roadblocks. Workers receive 50 percent of planned information. The integrated production control system with Takt is best. Workers receive 75 percent of planned information. Information flows through multiple paths, not a single point of failure through the foreman.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why CPM creates chaos: look-ahead schedules are given to subs as directive without collaboration, workers do not see any planning
• How Last Planner improves things: phase planning with pull planning, make ready schedules, weekly work plans, percent plan complete tracking
• Why Takt with integrated production control is best: work packages and work steps planned early, roadblock removal is primary responsibility
• The three huddles that get information to workers: afternoon format huddle 16 hours before work, morning worker huddle for entire site, crew preparation huddle with pretask plan
• How information transfer improves from 50 percent with Last Planner to 75 percent with Takt because of multiple communication paths instead of single point of failure

Workers see as much of the plan as possible and have input.

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