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An Update on Last Planner

Glenn Ballard, Gregory A. Howell

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The Last Planner system of production control has now been in use for a number of years. Its inventors provide an update consisting of a description of innovations and changes, thoughts on theoretical foundations, proposals regarding work structuring, phase scheduling and reliable promising, and recommendations for further development. Special emphasis is placed on the relationship between scheduling and production control, and also on the technique of phase scheduling to specify the handoffs that are the control foci for Last Planner.

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Key concepts: Planner, Scheduling (production processes), Structuring, Computer science, Operations research, Production control, Operations management, Production (economics)